Great stone graves near Trantow

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The megalithic graves near Trantow were four megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Trantow , a district of Sassen-Trantow in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were probably destroyed in the 19th century. The existence of the graves was recorded by hand in the 1820s by Friedrich von Hagenow . His notes, which were intended to record the entire inventory of the megalithic graves on Rügen and in New Western Pomerania , were published by Rudolf Baier in 1904 . The systems at Trantow were only included in a list. The exact location, dimensions and orientation of three graves are unknown. It is only noted that they were large dolmen .

More precise information is only available for the fourth grave, as it was examined by von Hagenow. It was 600–700 paces (approx. 450–525 m) away from Schuppenmühl, although the direction was not noted. It was a large dolmen in a barren bed with a rectangular or trapezoidal frame. Von Hagenow found five stone tools there: a cross hatchet , a flat hatchet, a thin- bladed trapezoidal hatchet, a narrow chisel and a round-necked ax . The latter could come from a late Neolithic reburial . The finds initially remained in von Hagenow's private collection and are now in the collection of the Stralsund Museum .

The Trantow grounds are part of a larger group of megalithic tombs that extend southwest of Greifswald between Dargelin in the east and Düvier in the west. The next preserved facility is the large stone grave Passow , located about 4 km to the east .

literature

  • Rudolf Baier (Ed.): Prehistoric graves on Rügen and in New Western Pomerania. Friedrich von Hagenow's notes from the papers he left behind. Abel, Greifswald 1904, p. 18.
  • 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. 14.
  • Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 104.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 124.