Great stone graves near Riestedt
| Great stone graves near Riestedt | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 59 '29.5 " N , 10 ° 39' 52.9" E | ||
| place | Uelzen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 796-797 | ||
The large stone graves near Riestedt were five between 3500 and 2800 BC. Resulting Chr. Megalithic the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) in the vicinity of about Uelzen belonging hamlet Riestedt in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ), of which only one still exists today. This bears the Sprockhoff number 796, the destroyed grave 2 the number 797.
location
The preserved grave 1 is located one kilometer southeast of Riestedt in the middle of a field. Grave 2 was about 200 m southeast of it. The third grave was south of Riestedt, graves 4 and 5 were to the northwest and were very close to each other.
description
The preserved grave 1
The complex belongs to the type of passage graves . It has a southeast-northwest oriented burial chamber with a length of 10.5 m and a width of 2.25 m. In its original state, it had six wall stones on the north-eastern long side, seven on the south-western, one end stone each on the narrow sides and six cap stones. The corridor in the middle of the southwest side consisted of a pair of wall stones and a capstone. All but two of the wall stones in the chamber are still there, but the two outermost pairs of wall stones on the long sides have tilted outwards and the north-western end stone has been carried away. The five remaining wall stones have all fallen into the interior of the chamber, the southeastern one has been broken into several pieces. The wall stones of the corridor are still in situ , the capstone is in front of the corridor.
The destroyed grave 2
The grave had a very large, rectangular barn bed that was oriented northwest-southeast. It was 64 m long and 8 m wide. The stone enclosure was relatively completely preserved when Georg Otto Carl von Estorff took the picture around 1846, but it already had larger gaps in the southeast. In its central area, the mound bed was cut by a border ditch. In the extreme northwest was the burial chamber. The burial chamber was already severely damaged. There were still two wall stones on the north-eastern long side, the south-eastern end stone and a cap stone.
The destroyed grave 3
According to von Estorff's drawing, this grave probably had three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and only one huge cap stone. The facility may not be seen as a large stone grave , but as a stone box .
literature
- Arthur de Bonstetten : Essai sur les Dolmens. Geneva 1865, p. 16.
- 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.
- Karl Hermann Jacob : The megalithic graves of the district of Ülzen and the protection of the prehistoric monuments. In: News sheet for Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, p. 24ff.
- 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. 71-72, 75.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Grave 1 , Grave 2
- strahlen.org: Large stone grave "Riestedt 1", Riestedt, Uelzen