Great stone graves near Sparow
| Great stone graves near Sparow Tomb of the Wenden King (Tomb 1) | |||
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 The large stone grave Sparow 1 |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 31 '39.1 " N , 12 ° 22' 47.2" E | ||
| place | Nossentiner Hütte , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 423 | ||
The megalithic graves at Sparow were two megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Sparow , a district of the municipality of Nossentiner Hütte in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there is only one grave. It is also known as the Tomb of the Wenden King and bears the Sprockhoff number 423. The second complex was destroyed in the early 19th century.
location
Grave 1 is located about 1.2 km north of Sparow and about 200 m east of the Drewitzer See in a forest. The original location of the second grave is unknown. In the vicinity of the two large stone graves there were originally several Bronze Age and possibly Iron Age burial mounds .
History of research and destruction
The two facilities were examined by Captain Friedrich Wilhelm Zinck in 1806 , but there is only a short find report without detailed descriptions of the graves. Grave 2 was probably destroyed a little later, as it was no longer mentioned in 1839. In 1932 the preserved grave was measured by Ernst Sprockhoff and recorded under the number 423 in his atlas of megalithic tombs of Germany . During the extensive excavations that Ewald Schuldt carried out in the 1960s and 1970s on the Mecklenburg megalithic stone graves, the Sparow site was not taken into account.
description
The preserved grave 1
Grave 1 is a large dolmen . It has a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber with a slightly trapezoidal floor plan. Its length is 7.0 m, its width 2.2 m in the northeast and 1.8 m in the southwest. The two long sides each have four wall stones, all but one of which are still in situ . The northeast wall stone on the southeast side is inclined towards the interior of the chamber. Of the two end stones on the narrow sides, the northeastern one is in situ, the southwestern one has been dragged out a little. Of the original four cap stones, three are still there. The two northeastern ones are still on the wall stones, the southwestern one fell into the interior of the chamber. The northeasternmost and largest capstone measures 2.6 m × 2.4 m × 1.8 m. Only remains of the original mound are left. According to Schuldt, it was a rolling stone hill. There are only seven stones left of the enclosure.
Presumably grave 1 is the larger of the two plants examined by Zinck. He found ash, pottery shards and horse bones here.
The destroyed grave 2
Grave 2 is probably the smaller of the systems examined by Zinck. A building description is not available. Ceramic shards and a broken needle came to light on finds. The latter indicates a Bronze Age or Iron Age reburial .
literature
- Albert Bartsch: Quarterly report of the Association for Meklenburg History and Antiquity. Schwerin, April 8, 1839. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity. Volume 4, 1839, p. B 4 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 97 ( 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. 77 ( online ).
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume V. Köhler, Leipzig 1902, p. 461 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : Old Graves - Early Castles (= picture catalogs of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Schwerin. Volume 6). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1964, Fig. 26.
- Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 139.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 42.
