Great stone graves near Teutendorf

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Great stone graves near Teutendorf
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Great stone graves near Teutendorf (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 54 ° 3 '46.9 "  N , 12 ° 26' 48.7"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '46.9 "  N , 12 ° 26' 48.7"  E
place Sanitz , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 367

The megalithic graves near Teutendorf were five megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Teutendorf , a district of Sanitz in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there is only one grave left. It bears the Sprockhoff number 367. The remaining facilities were destroyed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

location

The preserved grave 1 is located about 800 m east-southeast of Teutendorf in a field. Robert Beltz mentions three other facilities that have been completely destroyed today, and an entry in the local file a fourth. The location of these graves is not known. 1.1 km northeast of grave 1 are the megalithic graves near Stormstorf , 2.4 km southeast of the Ticino grave .

description

Drawing of grave 1 after Schlie

According to Friedrich Schlie, grave 1 had a pile of mounds 33 m in circumference in the 1890s. On top of it stood an oval frame, which, according to his drawing, still consisted of 17 stones. Inside was a burial chamber with five or six wall stones on the long sides, a preserved end stone and three preserved cap stones. Dimensions and orientation of the grave are not specified. Today only the mound and the remainder of a wall stone are preserved. Ewald Schuldt indicated the plant due to slept drawing as a passage grave .

The destroyed graves are simply referred to as " giant beds ". More detailed information on their dimensions, their orientation and the types of graves are not available.

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. 5.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 98 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 1. 2nd edition, Schwerin 1898, p. 450 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : Dolmen and passage graves on the Recknitz. Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1966.
  • Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 118.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 21.

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