Great stone graves near Stegelitz

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Great stone graves near Stegelitz Large stone grave Suckow (grave 2)
Grave mound Stegelitz grave 2

Grave mound Stegelitz grave 2
Great stone graves near Stegelitz (Brandenburg)
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Coordinates Stegelitz 1 coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 32.3 ″  E , Stegelitz 2
place Flieth-Stegelitz , Brandenburg , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 454

The megalithic graves near Stegelitz are two megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Stegelitz , a district of Flieth-Stegelitz in the Uckermark district ( Brandenburg ). Grave 2 bears the Sprockhoff number 454 and is sometimes listed in the literature as the Suckow large stone grave .

Naming and numbering

Grave 2 is occasionally listed under Suckow in the literature, for example by Ernst Sprockhoff . Ewald Schuldt makes incorrect information in The Mecklenburg Megalithic Graves : He lists a total of four graves under the serial numbers 1069-1072. He lists the grave described by Sprockhoff under the name Stegelitz and the number 1069. Under the number 1070 and the location Suckow he cites a large dolmen, which is actually the same grave. Under 1071 and 1072 and the place where Suckow was found, he lists two stone boxes . 1071 is likely to be the Great Stone Grave 1. 1072 denotes a destroyed stone box. Eberhard Kirsch and Hans-Jürgen Beier list all of these sites under Stegelitz.

Find place no. Sprockhoff (1967) Schuldt (1972), serial no. Beier (1991) Kirsch (1993), serial no. annotation
Stegelitz 8 - 1071 (?) Stegelitz 1 794 Great stone grave
Stegelitz 27 Suckow (454) 1069/1070 Stegelitz 2 795 Large stone grave, erroneously listed as two graves at Schuldt
Stegelitz 39 - 1072 Stegelitz 3 796 Stone box

location

Grave 1 is located about 1 km west of Stegelitz, north of the road to Groß Fredenwalde in a field in the middle of a Bronze Age group of burial mounds . Grave 2 is 3.3 km southeast of it, just under 2 km south of Stegelitz and 500 m east of the A 11 on the edge of the Suckower Forest, just before the municipality boundary. In the vicinity of Stegelitz there are several other groups of tumuli and a destroyed stone box from the time of the funnel beaker.

description

Grave 1

Grave chamber Stegelitz grave 1

Grave 1 has an east-west (?) Oriented barren bed with a length of 35 m and a width between 13 m and 14 m. The mound is still 1.6 m to 4 m high. The burial chamber is in the eastern part . It still consists of a few wall stones and is open on the west side. The capstone (s) are missing. No information is available about the dimensions, orientation and type of the chamber.

Grave 2

Grave chamber Stegelitz grave 2

The grave has a rolling stone mound with a diameter of 8 m, which is still about 0.75 m high. In the hill rests a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber, which is an enlarged dolmen (according to Hans-Jürgen Beier, an enlarged dolmen or a ramp box ). All wall stones are still in situ . There are two stones on each of the long sides, a closing stone on the northeast narrow side and a slanted, narrow stone on the southwest narrow side, which only covers half of it and thus allows access. The two capstones are still there, but relocated. One fell into the interior of the chamber, the other lies half-rolled on the eastern outer side. The chamber has a length of 2.5 m and a width between 1.25 m and 1.5 m.

In 1910 JO vd Hagen carried out a special excavation. He was able to determine that the chamber was built on a mud pavement and had already been robbed. He could no longer find any burial remains or grave goods.

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. 36.
  • JO vd Hagen: Recent finds of Stone Age graves in the Uckermark. In: Mannus. Volume 7, 1915, pp. 34-35.
  • Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, pp. 186–187.
  • Karl Heinrich Marschalleck: Pre- and early historical overview. In: Paul Eichholz, Heinrich Jerchel: The art monuments of the Templin district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 10.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 138.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : The cultures of the younger Stone Age in the Mark Brandenburg. Prehistoric research 4. Berlin 1926, pp. 2, 4, 142.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 54.

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