Large stone graves near Rätzlingen
The megalithic graves near Rätzlingen were six megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Rätzlingen in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
One grave was located directly in the eastern part of the village, a second was to the northwest, two other graves were close to each other to the northeast, the fifth not far from the southern edge of the village and the sixth a little further south.
There were originally numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. To the north of Rätzlingen were the megalithic graves near Riestedt , of which only one still exists today. To the south were the large stone graves at Hanstedt II and the large stone grave in Rassau .
description
The graves were documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff , but not described in detail. Three of them had already been destroyed at the time of recording, only the two northeast and the southernmost grave were still preserved. No information is available about the orientation, dimensions and type of grave of the systems. The only thing that emerges from the map signatures is that the grave in the village had a round pile of hills, while the rest of the complex had rectangular barn beds .
literature
- Georg O. Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846, ( digitized ).
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 88 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Satin ribbon. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 75.