Great stone graves near Rhadereistedt

The megalithic graves near Rhadereistedt were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Rhadereistedt , a district of Rhade in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The exact location of the first grave is not known, according to a report from 1839 the second was “on the so-called Bargfelde”.

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 was already badly damaged by 1839. It had two cap stones, each 2 m long and 2 m wide. These only lay on one side of the wall stones. The exact type of grave cannot be determined from this information.

Grave 2

Grave 2 also had two cap stones. The first was 3.21 m long and 2 m wide, the second was 2.6 m long and 1.16 m wide. No information is available about the wall stones, so the grave type can no longer be determined here either.

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 226 ( 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 , p. 20.
• Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 57 ( online ).