Great stone graves near Püttelkow
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 32 '59.1 " N , 11 ° 4' 57.8" E | ||
| place | Wittenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves near Püttelkow were two megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Püttelkow , a district of Wittendbod in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. Johann Ritter examined one of the graves in 1840. The second grave was discovered around 1844 and destroyed.
location
Grave 1 was about 1000 paces (approx. 750 m) north of Püttelkow, directly on the way to Düsterbeck in the lowland of a peat bog. The exact location of grave 2 is unknown. To the south of Püttelkow were the megalithic graves near Wittenburg , to the west the megalithic graves near Karft .
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 was a south-southeast-north-northwest oriented chamberless megalithic bed with a length of 110 feet (approx. 33 m) and a width of 18 feet (approx. 5.4 m). The stone enclosure was largely removed by Ritter's investigation. Only at the southern end was it still 20 feet (approx. 6 m) long. The mound was still 4.5 feet (1.4 m) high. Like the adjacent ground, it consisted of yellow sand and was interspersed with stone slabs that did not form any recognizable order. The only finds were a few ceramic shards.
Grave 2
No further information is available about the appearance of grave 2. It was destroyed by a farmer around 1844. Ceramic shards and an ax from a subsequent burial of the end-Neolithic individual grave culture were found. The latter is now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin .
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. 18.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 101 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 105 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Panel tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, plate 9/57.
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : megalithic grave of Püttelkow. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 9, 1844, p. 369 ( online ).
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 103.
- Johann Ritter : Hünengrab von Püttelkow (near Wittenburg). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 6, 1841, p. 30 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 127.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 33.