Great stone graves near Süttorf (Neetze)

The megalithic graves near Süttorf were two megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Süttorf , a district of Neetze in the Lüneburg district ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The two graves were located north of Süttorf, west of the road to Neetze, close together on the "Reeseberg" or "Riesenberg".

description

According to Johann Karl Wächter, the graves were only partially preserved in 1839 and were probably completely removed in the following years. Both plants had rectangular barren beds , probably with slightly rounded corners . Both had a width of 1.5 fathoms (approx. 2.6 m), the length of one was 4 fathoms (approx. 7 m) and the other 3 fathoms (approx. 5.3 m). A great many of the surrounding stones were already missing in 1839. No information is available about the burial chambers .

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 137 ( 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. 50.
• Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, pp. 17-18 ( online ).