Great stone graves near Nieps

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The megalithic graves near Nieps were two megalithic graves of the Neolithic deep-engraving ceramics culture near the Nieps desert on what is now the municipality of Rohrberg in Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . Both were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The two graves were near the Niepser Acker in the direction of Ahlum . They were about 30 m apart.

Research history

The facilities were first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the great stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that both graves had been completely removed in the meantime as part of the separation .

description

Grave 1

When Danneil was taken, grave 1 still had five wall stones. Cap stones were no longer there. Dimensions are not available.

Grave 2

According to Danneil, grave 2 had a well-preserved burial chamber with a length of 10.7 m. A capstone was still there. The grave originally had an enclosure, but Danneil could only make out a stone.

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. 52.
  • 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, No. 101-102 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 138-139 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).