Great stone graves near Radenbeck
| Great stone graves near Radenbeck | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 13 '41.1 " N , 10 ° 37' 20.2" E | ||
| place | Thomasburg , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 698 | ||
The megalithic graves near Radenbeck were three grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the district of Radenbeck in the district of Lüneburg ( Lower Saxony ) belonging to the Thomasburg community , of which only one still exists today. It bears the Sprockhoff number 698.
location
Grave 1 is located 500 m northwest of Radenbeck in a small wooded area. Several burial mounds adjoin directly to the northwest . The destroyed graves 2 and 3 were not far from grave 1. 1.4 km to the west are the giant beds near Horndorf .
description
The preserved grave 1
The heavily destroyed complex has a north-east-south-west oriented megalithic bed on a ledge with a length of 30 m and a width of 8 m. The mound still reaches a height of 1 m. It seems to get a little narrower to the north and was therefore probably trapezoidal in its original shape. The few remaining surrounding stones are mainly concentrated in the south. Most of them fell over, some of them were blown up. Only one stone on the south-eastern long side seems to be in situ . In the south-western half of the megalithic bed there is a large excavation in which the remains of the burial chamber lie. There are still three stones left of this, only one of which seems to be in situ. A reconstruction of the original appearance is not possible due to this poor state of preservation. Michael Martin Lienau carried out an excavation in the chamber in 1912, where he was able to make out a plaster next to the wall stones.
The destroyed grave 2
The second grave had a north-south oriented, oval mound with a length of 22 m and a width of 9 m. The stone enclosure consisted of 15 stones. The facility was destroyed in 1846.
The destroyed grave 3
The grave had an east-west oriented, rectangular mound with a length of 40 m and a width of 6 m. In the middle of it was the burial chamber, which was 4.8 m long and 1.9 m wide. The floor of the chamber was paved with pounded clay . In 1876 the facility was destroyed.
literature
- Michael Martin Lienau: About megalithic graves and other grave forms in the Lüneburg area. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1914, pp. 10, 18.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893 p. 144 ( 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. 41-42, 50.