Great stone graves near Rieste
| Great stone graves near Rieste | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 6 '24 " N , 10 ° 27' 18.2" E | ||
| place | Bienenbüttel , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 743-744 | ||
The large stone graves near Rieste were 14 graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the vicinity of the district of Rieste in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Bienenbüttel . They were first described in 1820 by Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Blumenbach , who found ten graves while four were already destroyed. Georg Otto Carl von Estorff could only make out eight graves when he was taken in 1843. In 1937, Gerhard Körner found only the last remains of a single grave. The graves 3 and 6 reproduced by von Estorff in drawings bear the Sprockhoff numbers 743 and 744.
location
Exact location information is not available for all graves. Grave 1 after Blumenbach was probably in the direction of Natendorf . Graves 2 and 3 were in Rieste at Hoins farm. Today this corresponds roughly to the southern end of the village on the street Zum Bachfeld. Blumenbach located graves 4 and 5 in the Rieste near the Kruse farm. For graves 6 to 8 he only gave the indication "near Rieste"; graves 7 and 8 were no longer available when von Estorff was taken and are therefore missing on his map. Grave 9 was near Rieste or Steddorf. Graves 10 to 13 were already destroyed in 1820, so that Blumenbach could no longer give an exact location. Grave 14 was not far from the northeast outskirts of Rieste.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 was reproduced by Blumenbach as a barren bed with a clearly visible pile of hills. The probably still complete enclosure consisted of 18 stones. The burial chamber was also completely preserved and had five or six capstones. The number of wall stones cannot be seen exactly on Blumenbach's sketch.
Grave 2
According to Blumenbach, grave 2 also had a huge bed with a well-preserved enclosure. The capstones of the burial chamber seem to have no longer been in their original positions.
Grave 3
Grave 3 possessed a north-south oriented barren bed with a length of 39 m and a width between 6 and 9 m. The enclosure was largely preserved when von Estorff took the picture, only there was a larger gap in the northern part of the western long side. Most of the preserved stones were still in situ . The burial chamber was near the northern end of the megalithic bed. Here all five wall stones of the western long side, the northern end stone and the northern wall stone of the eastern long side were still preserved in situ, possibly also the southern end stone and the adjoining wall stone of the east side. The northern one was already missing from what were probably the original five capstones. The three in the middle had rushed into the chamber. The southern capstone was probably still on the wall stones. According to von Estorff, a modern oven was built around the middle of the long eastern side of the megalithic bed. In 1937 Gerhard Körner was only able to locate the mound and a few individual stones from this grave.
Grave 6
Grave 6 had an east-west oriented grave chamber, which already showed major damage when it was taken by von Estorff. The eastern end stone and five wall stones each on the long sides were preserved, of which at least the two eastern corner stones had overturned. A fallen capstone lay in the middle of the chamber. Three stones at the western end cannot be read with certainty.
literature
- Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Blumenbach : Journey to the megalithic graves in the Medingen office in May 1820. In: Collectanea. Volume 7, pp. 1–38 (= collective manuscripts by GHW Blumenbach, formerly in the library of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony, burned in the Second World War, extracts from H. Gummel preserved in the Lüneburg Museum).
- 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 ).
- 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. 56.
