Great stone graves near Meckelstedt

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Great stone graves near Meckelstedt
The great stone grave of Meckelstedt 1

The great stone grave of Meckelstedt 1
Great stone graves near Meckelstedt (Lower Saxony)
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Coordinates 53 ° 35 '54.2 "  N , 8 ° 56' 23.7"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '54.2 "  N , 8 ° 56' 23.7"  E
place Meckelstedt ( Geestland ), Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 616

The megalithic graves near Meckelstedt were several megalithic graves of unknown numbers from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture in the district of Meckelstedt in the district of Cuxhaven , Lower Saxony, belonging to the city of Geestland . Today there is only one grave; it bears the Sprockhoff number 616. Other graves were destroyed in the 19th century; A more detailed description is available for only one of these systems.

location

The preserved grave 1 is in the east of Meckelstedt at the point where the Meckelstedter Strasse and the Steinbergshörner Strasse meet. 1.3 km to the northeast is the Bronze Age stone box of Meckelstedt , 2.6 km southeast of the Großhain stone grave . The exact locations of the destroyed graves are not known.

description

The preserved grave 1

The grave is very badly damaged. A pile of hills cannot be detected. The burial chamber is oriented west-east and has a width of 1.8 m. When Johann Karl Wächter took the picture around 1840, there were still eight wall stones and two cap stones. In 1927 Ernst Sprockhoff found only two wall stones on the southern long side, one on the northern long side and a cap stone resting on them. The grave is still in this condition today. The capstone has a length of 3 m, a width of 2 m and a thickness of 1.5 m. Its surface is covered with numerous bowls ; according to Müller-Brauel there are a total of 41.

The destroyed grave 2

The grave had six wall stones and two cap stones. It was 3 m long and 2.1 m wide. On the south side (whether long or narrow side is not known) it is said to have had a staircase-like entrance. This stair construction is very rare for the large stone graves of the funnel beaker culture. Only four other facilities have such access: The large stone grave Deinste 1 , the large stone grave Krelingen , the large stone grave Sieben Steinhäuser C (all in Lower Saxony) and the large stone grave Eext (D13) in the Netherlands .

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Dehnke : The deep stoneware of the Neolithic in East Hanover. Lax, Hildesheim 1940, p. 18.
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller : Report on antiquities in Hanover. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities in Stade. Volume 4, 1871, p. 359.
  • Hans Müller-Brauel : The prehistoric monuments of the district Lehe. In: Annual Report of the Men of the Morning Star. Volume 16, 1913/14 (1914), pp. 88-91.
  • 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. 6.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs : The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957, plates 41–42.
  • Friedrich Tewes : The stone graves of the province of Hanover. An introduction to your customers and the main types and forms. Hanover 1898, pp. 28-29.
  • Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 75 ( online ).

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