Great stone graves near Mehmke
| Great stone graves near Mehmke | |||
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 The large stone grave Mehmke 2 |
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| Coordinates | Mehmke 2 , Mehmke 3 | ||
| place | Diesdorf , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3700 to 3350 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves near Mehmke are two preserved megalithic graves of the Neolithic deep-engraving ceramic culture near Mehmke , a district of Diesdorf in the Altmark district of Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The field name "Steenkamp" indicates a third, destroyed grave.
location
The two graves are located about 600 m northeast of the village center of Mehmke. Grave 2 is the southern one, grave 3 is located 160 m north-northeast of this. The megalithic graves are located 3 km to the west-southwest near Bornsen .
Research history
The graves were first described in 1843 by Johann Friedrich Danneil . In the 1890s, Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack carried out a new survey of the great stone graves of the Altmark. Since 1972 the graves have been regularly cleaned and freed from vegetation by the association “Young Archaeologists of the Altmark”. In 2003-04, all remaining large stone graves in the Altmark were recorded and measured as a joint project of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt , the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum in Salzwedel and the association “Young Archaeologists of the Altmark”.
description
Grave 2
Grave 2 belongs to the large dolmen type . The burial mound is oriented northeast-southwest. It is 21 m long and 11 m wide, its height is one meter. The grave border is oriented northeast-southwest and was originally probably rectangular. It is at least 19.5 m long and 5.2 m wide. 13 of the border stones have been preserved, but most of them are no longer in their original location.
The burial chamber is oriented northeast-southwest and is located in the southern part of the enclosure. It originally consisted of eight bearing stones, five of which are still preserved, and three cap stones, all of which have been preserved. Most of the stones fell over, however. The largest capstone measures 1.9 m × 1.2 m × 0.7 m. The chamber is rectangular and has the internal dimensions 4.0 m × 1.4 m.
Grave 3
Grave 3 is located 150 m northeast of grave 2 and is too poorly preserved to be assigned to a specific grave type. The burial mound is oval and reaches a height of 0.3 m. A total of 14 stones are still preserved. Only an upright standing stone can be identified as a bearing stone, with all others it is no longer possible to distinguish between edging, bearing or capping stones. The entire tomb measures 12.5 m × 7.7 m.
See also
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 57.
- Wilhelm Blasius : Guide to the megalithic grave monuments in the western part of the Salzwedel district. In: Thirty-first annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. Issue 2, 1904, p. 99 ( PDF; 8.1 MB ).
- Hartmut Bock , Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Great stone graves of the Altmark . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-939414-03-4 , pp. 128–132.
- Johann Friedrich Danneil : Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark . In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry . 1843, p. 105 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
- Eduard Krause , Otto Schoetensack : The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany . I .: Altmark . In: Journal of Ethnology . Vol. 25, 1893, pp. 148-149 / no. 96–97, Plates VI / 96, VII / 96, IX / 96 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , p. 44.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Grave 2 , Grave 3
- KLEKs Online: Grave 2 , Grave 3
- grosssteingraeber.de: grave 2 , grave 3
- tw.strahl.org: grave 2 , grave 3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Großsteingräber der Altmark. 2006, p. 128
- ↑ Hartmut Bock: Student working groups and ground monument preservation in the north-western Altmark. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 285 ( online ).
- ^ Young archaeologists of the Altmark eV - On the history of the association .
- ↑ Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Großsteingraves der Altmark. 2006, p. 11.
- ↑ Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Großsteingraves der Altmark. 2006, p. 132
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