Great stone graves near Strehlow

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Great stone graves near Strehlow
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Great stone graves near Strehlow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Strehlow 1 coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 54.7 ″  N , 13 ° 7 ′ 48.8 ″  E , Strehlow 2 , Strehlow 3 , Strehlow 4 , Strehlow 5
place Hohenmocker , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 564-567

The megalithic graves near Strehlow are five megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Strehlow , a district of the Hohenmocker community in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Graves 1–4 have the Sprockhoff numbers 564–567. Ewald Schuldt mentions a fifth grave that Sprockhoff does not have on record.

location

The graves are located northwest of Strehlow. Grave 1 is north of the road to Leistenow . Graves 2–5 are about 800 m southwest of this and form a group. Graves 2, 3 and 5 are roughly in a north-east-south-west running line. Graves 2 and 3 are 50 m apart, graves 3 and 5 are 90 m apart. Grave 4 is about 80 m east of grave 5.

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 has a flat rolling stone mound . Inside there is a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber , which, according to Schuldt, is a large dolmen . The chamber has a length of 5 m and a width of 1.7 m. Six wall stones are in situ . Two of the capstones are still preserved. One lies rolled over at the southeast end of the chamber, the second stands upright in the northwest of the chamber.

Grave 2

Grave 2 is also a large dolmen in a rolling stone hill. The burial chamber is oriented approximately north-south and has a length of 3 m and a width of at least 1.5 m. The southern end stone, the two adjoining wall stones of the eastern and the two northern wall stones of the western long side of the probably three-bay complex still stand in situ. There is only one capstone left, it lies overturned inside the chamber.

Grave 3

Grave 3 is also a large dolmen with a rolling stone mound. The burial chamber is oriented northwest-southeast and has a length of 4 m and a width of 2 m. This grave also has three bays. The north-western end stone is still in situ, as are the three wall stones on the south-western long side and the two north-western wall stones on the north-eastern long side; the south-eastern one has been moved into the chamber. The southeast end stone is missing. The three cap stones have slipped inside the chamber.

Grave 4

Grave 4 is an ancient dolmen in a rolling stone hill. The burial chamber is oriented northeast-southwest and has a length of 2 m and a width of 0.8 m. The north-eastern end stone and the lying wall stone of the south-eastern long side are preserved in situ. There is also a piece of wall stone. The cover plate is rolled. It has a length of 2.4 m and a width of 1.1 m.

Grave 5

No further information is available about grave 5. There are still several stones that belong to the burial chamber. The exact type of grave is unknown.

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. 26.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 133.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 87-89.

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