Great stone graves near Mardorf

The megalithic graves near Mardorf were several megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Mardorf , a district of Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Hanover region ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in 1816 to obtain building material for road construction. The exact number is as little known as the location of the graves; All that is known is that there were supposed to have been ten of them together with the neighboring large stone graves near Schneeren . No information is available about the orientation, dimensions and grave type of the facilities near Mardorf.

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 30 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 85.
• Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 88 ( online ).