Great stone graves near Siggelkow

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Great stone graves near Siggelkow Schimoter grave (grave 2)
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Great stone graves near Siggelkow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 53 ° 24 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 57' 43.2"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 57' 43.2"  E
place Siggelkow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 416

The megalithic graves near Siggelkow were originally three megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Siggelkow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there is only one grave. It bears the Sprockhoff number 416. Two further graves were examined by Friedrich Wilhelm Zinck in 1804 and later destroyed. One was probably already removed in the 19th century, the second was still preserved around 1900 , according to Friedrich Schlie .

location

Grave 1 is located a good 2 km northeast of Siggelkow in a small wall section on an arch of the Elde . Schlie mentions another grave east of Siggelkow near the Burower lock. This is likely to be one of the graves examined by Zinck. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch does not give an exact location for these two graves. The location of the second grave is only given as “the same”; it is therefore likely to have been located near the first grave examined by Zinck. To the east of Siggelkow were the large stone graves near Burow , which were destroyed in the 19th century .

description

Grave 1

The preserved grave 1 is a disordered pile of stones 14 m long. Ernst Sprockhoff and Ewald Schuldt suspected that it was an enlarged dolmen .

Grave 2

Grave 2, also called “Schimoter grave”, was a north-south oriented, stone-enclosed, chamberless barn bed with a length of 130 or 138 paces (approx. 98 or 104 m). It was 4 paces (approx. 3 m) wide at the southern end and 8 paces (approx. 6 m) in the middle. It was divided into two parts by two transverse rows of stones 8 paces (approx. 6 m) apart, the southern 100 paces (approx. 75 m) and the northern 30 paces (approx. 22.5 m) long. The southern part was empty. In the north part of the north-west corner, two cut axes made of flint were discovered.

Grave 3

Grave 3 was also a two-part chamberless giant bed, which was very similar to grave 2. The southern half had been ransacked before Zinck's investigation. Again in the northwest corner a bulbous ceramic vessel was found.

Robert Beltz equated the complex with grave 2, but only because both graves were very similar. In Lisch, on the other hand, two graves are clearly mentioned. Ewald Schuldt took the information from Beltz.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 21.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 96 ( online ).
  • Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 106 ( online ).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Friderico-Francisceum or grand-ducal antiquities collection from the old Germanic and Slavic times of Mecklenburg. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1837, p. 74 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4. Schwerin 1901, p. 630 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 129.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 38.

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