Great stone graves near Pensin

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The megalithic graves near Pensin were probably four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Pensin , a district of Kletzin in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were probably destroyed in the late 19th or early 20th century. The existence of the graves was recorded by hand in the 1820s by Friedrich von Hagenow . His notes were published by Hansdieter Berlekamp in 1961 . Baron von Boenigk carried out excavations here in 1883. The found objects first came to Stettinand are now in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald . Hans-Jürgen Beier also mentions a stone box , which is likely to be identical to one of the large stone graves .

location

Site plan of the large stone graves and burial mounds at Zeitlow, Wüstenfelde, Pensin and Quitzerow according to von Hagenow

The graves were east and northeast of Pensin. There were once numerous other large stone graves in the area. The megalithic graves at Quitzerow followed directly to the east . To the north were the megalithic graves at Zeitlow and Wüstenfelde . The next remaining structures are the megalithic stone graves around 6 km east-northeast at Sophienhof .

description

All of the systems were large dolmen . Two of them were encased in a rolling stone mound. The other two graves had a barren bed with a rectangular or trapezoidal enclosure. Von Boenigk describes one of them as a Kujavian grave with an approximately triangular barn bed. It was 32 m long and 6 m wide at the base. The enclosure consisted only of small stone blocks. On the pointed side of the bed was a single stone over two meters long and weighing about 10 tons. 7 m from the base was the burial chamber, which, according to von Boenigk, was a small box made of sand and limestone slabs with a volume of 0.7 m². Beier erroneously lists this grave as the fifth grave complex near Pensin, although Ewald Schuldt has already taken into account von Boenigk's report when listing four graves.

A flint blade (“saw”) and a flint lance tip come from the grave examined . Another lance tip was found outside the grave. Both peaks can be assigned to the late Neolithic .

literature

  • Forty-fifth annual report of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology. April 1, 1882 to April 1, 1883. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 33, 1883, p. 413 ( online ).
  • 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. 25.
  • Hansdieter Berlekamp : From the work of Friedrich von Hagenow. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook. Volume 1, 1961, pp. 9-18.
  • 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. 102.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 132.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 88.