Great stone graves near Römstedt
The megalithic graves near Römstedt were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Römstedt in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. The two systems were documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff . He made a floor plan of a grave; this system bears the Sprockhoff number 781.
location
Grave 1 was about 750 m east of Römstedt, south of the road to Almstorf . Grave 2 was west of Römstedt. Almost 3 km southeast of grave 1 was the Masbrock stone grave, which was also destroyed in the 19th century, and the stone graves near Niendorf I to the northwest .
description
Grave 1
The complex had an east-west oriented burial chamber which was already badly damaged in von Estorff's documentation. Originally it probably consisted of six pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone on each of the narrow sides. In the 1840s, three wall stones each of the long sides and the western end stone were still preserved. Only four of the cap stones remained, all of which had fallen into the interior of the chamber. The exact grave type can not be determined with certainty, but due to the size it must be a great dolmen or passage grave have acted.
Grave 2
Grave 2 was not described in detail by von Estorff. The card signature only shows that it had a huge bed . No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave.
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 83 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 67, 75.
