Great stone graves near Vilmnitz
| Great stone graves near Vilmnitz | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 20 ′ 56.8 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 34" E | ||
| place | Putbus , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves near Vilmnitz were eleven or twelve megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Vilmnitz , a district of Putbus on the island of Rügen in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . They were probably destroyed in the 19th or early 20th century.
location
Friedrich von Hagenow noted the location of the graves on his special chart of the island of Rügen. They were located near a road leading to the south, which roughly corresponds to today's Vilmnitzer Chaussee between Vilmnitz and Lauterbach . A grave lay a little to the east of this group. A single boulder still stands on the edge of Vilmnitzer Chaussee. It is unclear whether it originally belonged to one of the graves.
A few hundred meters to the west and north-west of the former location of the graves are still the two large stone graves near Lonvitz .
description
The graves were not described in detail by von Hagenow, but only recorded in a list. Since von Hagenow divided the large stone graves of Rügen into three types, at least an approximate reconstruction of their original appearance is possible. He listed a total of eleven graves. Of these, nine belonged to his first type, that is, they were hilltop burial chambers without stone surrounds. Two graves belonged to his third type and thus had a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed with stone surrounds. All burial chambers are likely to have been large dolmen , as almost without exception all of the large stone graves in Rügen have such a burial chamber.
The Stralsund Museum has two flat axes and four blades or deductions from flint , which come from a private collection and to have been originally found in a stone grave at Vilmnitz. Further information on the circumstances of the find is not available. It is therefore unclear whether the objects come from one of the graves that Hagenow had already listed or whether it was a grave that was discovered later.
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. 14.
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Part 2. Directory and tables (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 12.
- Friedrich von Hagenow : Special chart of the island of Rügen. Designed according to the latest measurements using all existing land maps. Lithographic Institute of the General Staff, Berlin 1829.
- 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. 105.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 123.