Great stone graves near Neuenfeld
| Great stone graves near Neuenfeld | |||
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 Great stone grave Neuenfeld 1 |
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| Coordinates | Neuenfeld 1 , Neuenfeld 2 , Neuenfeld 3 | ||
| place | Schönfeld , Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 457 | ||
The megalithic graves near Neuenfeld were probably seven megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Neuenfeld , a district of Schönfeld in the Uckermark district ( Brandenburg ). Only three of these still exist today. Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 457. Attachments 2 and 3 are only partially preserved. The remaining graves were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
Grave 1 is located south-southeast of Neuenfeld at the intersection of the paths from Klockow to the east and from Neuenfeld to Carmzow in a field. Graves 2 and 3 are located about 300 m southeast of this. They are 15 m apart. There were once several burial mounds , probably from the Bronze Age, in the vicinity of these complexes . Hugo Schumann mentions four other graves north of Neuenfeld, but these no longer existed at the end of the 19th century and about which no further information is available. In the vicinity of Neuenfeld, a stone box , several shallow graves and reading finds that can be assigned to the funnel cup culture were also discovered.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 has a north-east-south-west facing chamber, originally encased by a rolling stone mound, which is an ancient dolmen . The mound is flat but still recognizable. Three of the wall stones are in situ . It is the upright north-eastern end stone and the two lying stones on the long sides with a length of 1.8 m and 1.6 m respectively. The wall or threshold stone on the southwest narrow side is missing. The capstone is in situ. It has a length of 2.2 m, a width of 1.8 m and a thickness of 0.8 m, its top has a few bowls . The chamber has a length of 1.6 m and a width of 0.9 m.
Grave 2
Grave 2 also had a rolling stone mound. All that remains of the burial chamber are some stones lying around in disarray. The original appearance of the chamber can no longer be reconstructed. Eberhard Kirsch erroneously records the system as destroyed.
Grave 3
Grave 3 also had a rolling stone mound. The grave chamber is in the same condition as in grave 2. Ewald Schuldt , Hans-Jürgen Beier and Eberhard Kirsch mistakenly report this system as destroyed.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 33.
- Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, p. 163.
- Jens Parschau: The Neolithic settlement in the Uecker-Randow area. Diploma thesis, Halle (Saale) 1986, No. 464, 467.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 136.
- Hugo Schumann: The Stone Age graves of the Uckermark. Mieck, Prenzlau 1904, p. 42.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : The cultures of the younger Stone Age in the Mark Brandenburg. Prehistoric research 4. Berlin 1926, p. 141.
- Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 55.
Web links
- megalithic.co.uk: grave 1 , grave 2 , grave 3
- klecks-online.de: Grab 1 , Grab 3 (erroneously listed as a grave mound)
- strahlen.org: grave 1 , grave 2 , grave 3
- Megaliths in the Uckermark