Great stone graves near Reddereitz
| Great stone graves near Reddereitz | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 57 '39 .1 " N , 10 ° 54' 21.1" E | ||
| place | Clenze , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 736-738 | ||
The megalithic graves near Reddereitz were three graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the district of Reddereitz in the municipality of Clenze in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district ( Lower Saxony ), of which only two still exist today. These bear the Sprockhoff numbers 736 and 737, the destroyed third grave the number 738.
location
The two preserved graves are located about 500 m south of the center of Reddereitz am Klosterberg in a wooded area near the erratic boulder park. Grave 2 is 170 m east of grave 1. A third grave was east of this in the area of the Prezier desert .
description
Grave 1
The grave has a round mound with a diameter of 15 m. In the middle of the hill there is an excavation from which a completely preserved stone and the fragment of another stone protrude. Both should be capstones. A statement about the exact appearance of the burial chamber is not possible.
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-west-south-east oriented mound bed with a preserved length of 20 m. The mound reaches a height of 1 m. In 1912 the complex was destroyed on a large scale. In a documentation carried out in 1929, there were still four enclosing stones on the north-eastern long side, but only one of them was in situ , the others had tipped over to the outside. The burial chamber was only very incomplete. Two wall stones on the north-eastern long side were still in situ. The two opposite wall stones and the end stone on the southeast narrow side had overturned. Two more wall stones lay some distance to the north. A capstone had been dragged east. In 1939 an excavation took place at this grave, after which a reconstruction of the southeast part of the burial chamber took place. Here, the fallen stones were straightened up again and a stone that was a little apart was moved directly to the two wall stones on the south-western long side.
Grave 3
The third grave was described by Hermann Schroller in 1929 , but could not be found again later. It has a north-west-south-east oriented mound with a length of 29 m and a width of 13 m. The maximum height of the hill is 1 m. In the middle is a saddle from which three stones protrude, at least one of which is probably a capstone.
literature
- Rudolf Dehnke: The deep stoneware of the Neolithic in East Hanover. Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1940, pp. 84, 93.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 53.