Great stone graves at Tryppehna
The megalithic graves near Tryppehna were probably three megalithic Neolithic graves near Tryppehna , a district of Möckern in the district of Jerichower Land , Saxony-Anhalt . All of them were probably destroyed in the 18th or 19th century.
location
Graves 1 and 2 were outside of Tryppehna on the old military road in the direction of Ziepel and extended to the windmill. Grave 3 was in the field between Heerstraße and the road to Wörmlitz .
Research history
The facilities were documented for the first time by Joachim Gottwalt Abel , pastor in Möckern between 1755 and 1806 . He left only handwritten notes on this, which were published by Ernst Herms in 1928 . The graves themselves had already been completely cleared when Herms investigated.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 was the largest large stone grave in Jerichower Land. It had a north-south oriented stone enclosure with a length of 130 paces (about 97.5 m) and a width between 10 and 12 paces (between 7.5 and 9 m). When Abel took it, it consisted of 130 stones, some of which were enormous. Some of the fallen were 8 feet (about 2.5 m) long and 6 feet (about 1.9 m) wide. The in situ stones protruded up to 6 feet from the earth and were just as wide. The burial chamber , which, according to Abel, consisted of 74 stones, was located in the southern part of the mound . There was also a single capstone sunk into the interior of the chamber. The chamber was 12 paces long (approximately 9 m) and 3 paces (approximately 2.25 m) wide. Based on this information, it is not possible to clearly identify the grave type. Herms suspected a passage grave , Hans-Jürgen Beier, however, leaves the type open.
Grave 2
The information about grave 2 is somewhat obscure. In connection with grave 1 Abel wrote: "And are the stones placed at the other end after midnight at the windmill in such a way that they also have the appearance of a grave site." So it seems to be a second, indefinite grave chamber at the north end To have acted from grave 1, which was either inside or immediately outside the enclosure.
Grave 3
Grave 3 had an east-west oriented barren bed that was already more damaged when Abel took it. The northern long side of the enclosure still had 15 stones, the southern 12. The eastern narrow side already had no stones, while on the western side there were four, the two outer ones protruding over the rows of stones on the long sides. The overturned southwest corner stone was 9 feet (about 2.8 m) long and 5 feet (about 1.6 m) wide and the also overturned northwest corner stone was 9 feet long and 3.5 feet wide (about 1.1 m). Since Abel did not mention a burial chamber, the grave should be addressed as a chamberless giant bed .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 45.
- Ernst Herms: The megalithic graves of the district of Jerichow I. In: Festschrift of the Magdeburg Museum for Natural and Local History for the 10th Conference on Prehistory. Magdeburg 1928, pp. 254-255.