Great stone graves near Stüvenmühle
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 51 '0.7 " N , 8 ° 15' 42.8" E | ||
| place | Visbek , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 975 | ||
The large stone graves near Stüvenmühle were five grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the area of the municipality of Visbek in the district of Vechta ( Lower Saxony ). Only one of them still exists today. It bears the Sprockhoff number 975.
location
The preserved grave is on the western edge of the Visbek community near the floodplain in the garden of the Stüvenmühle estate. It is therefore not accessible to the public. The four destroyed graves were not far north of it.
description
The preserved grave 1
The complex originally had an east-west oriented mound bed , which has since been largely removed and only has the shape of a round hill. According to Carl Heinrich Nieberding , it should have been 60 paces long and 7 paces wide in its original condition . The burial chamber is located in the former western part of the megalithic bed. It has a length of 2.75 and a width of 1.8 m. When Ernst Sprockhoff took up the grave in 1952, it was largely overgrown, but the hill was removed in 1972 after a storm of the century. Due to this fact, the architecture can now be assessed a little better than Sprockhoff was able to. If he assumed two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, two cap stones and two end stones, it would seem more like three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, three cap stones and two end stones.
The destroyed grave 2
Grave 2 had a north-south oriented barren bed. Of this, a hill 18 m long and 10 m wide can still be seen. In 1940 there were three stones left here, but they were later removed.
The destroyed grave 3
The third grave had a north-west-south-east oriented megalithic bed. It was completely destroyed during road construction.
The destroyed grave 4
Grave 4 had a north-south oriented barren bed without enclosure. It can still be recognized as a hill 11 m long and 10 m wide. The burial chamber no longer exists.
The destroyed grave 5
The fifth grave had a barren bed oriented approximately north-south. It is said to have had two stones in 1940. In 1965, shattered deep- engraving ceramics were found. In 1971/72 the last remains of the grave were destroyed.
literature
- Carl Heinrich Nieberding : History of the former Niederstift Münster and the neighboring counties of Diepholz, Wildeshausen…. 1840.
- 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. 143-144.
- State of Oldenburg, Ministry of State (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg. Volume 2. Stalling, Oldenburg 1900, pp. 188-189.
Web links
- Large stone grave Stüvenmühle, near the floodplain near Visbek
- Visbek Navigator LGLN, the convenient official map service of the municipality of Visbek, focused on the megalithic graves near Stüvenmühle