Great stone graves near Vrees
| Great stone graves near Vrees Plingenberg stones in Langen Sand (grave 1), Bieschenhüttensteine, Burkenhüttensteine, Burkenhöger (grave 2), Palmstein (grave 3), Hohenwehnsteine, Stehenvensteine (grave 4) | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 54 '33 .5 " N , 7 ° 45' 38.5" E | ||
| place | Vrees , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 821 | ||
The large stone graves near Vrees were five grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the vicinity of the municipality of Vrees in the district of Emsland ( Lower Saxony ). Only one of them still exists today. It bears the Sprockhoff number 821 and is also known as the Plingenberger Steine im Langen Sand .
location
Grave 1 is located north of Vrees in a forest not far from the Gehlenberger Weg. Grave 2 was located 1.5 km northeast of the village, a little north of the Bischofsbrücker Weg. 700 m east of Vrees was grave 3 about halfway between Bischofsbrücker Weg and Peheimer Straße. Grave 4 was 1.5 km west of the village. Grave 5 was in the Eleonorenwald.
description
The preserved grave 1
The grave has a mound, the edges of which are not clearly visible. The burial chamber is oriented northwest-southeast. It has a length of at least 10 m and a width of 2 m. In 1895 the chamber still had 15 wall stones. When Ernst Sprockhoff took up the grave in 1926, only six were left. These are the north-western end stone, the two adjacent stones on the north-western long side and three stones on the south-eastern long side. Except for one of the south-eastern stones, all of them are still in situ . Only two of the capstones and a fragment of a third have survived. In the far north-west, the only remaining stone of the former enclosure is located.
The destroyed grave 2
Grave 2 is also known under the names "Bieschenhüttensteine", "Burkenhüttensteine" and "Burkenhöger". It was completely dismantled in 1983 and served as building material for a church. The facility was oriented east-west and had a length of 11 m and a width of 4 m. Before the destruction there were still six stones, but it was no longer possible to distinguish between wall stones and cap stones.
The destroyed grave 3
The grave, also known as “palm stone”, was also destroyed in 1893 for a church to be built. At that time it still consisted of two wall stones and a cap stone. The latter had a length of 2.85 and a width of 1.8 m. It only lay on a wall stone in the north.
The destroyed grave 4
Grave 4 was also known as "Hohenwehnsteine" or "Stehenvensteine". This system also served as building material for the church. Even before it was finally destroyed, it was in very poor condition. On an area with a length of 9.5 m and a width of 4.8 m there were five preserved and five blown stones, which no longer allowed any information about the original appearance of the grave.
The destroyed grave 5
The fifth grave was destroyed during cultivation work in 1878/79. No information is available about its appearance. Finds from this grave are now in the museum in Meppen .
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Pre-Christian monuments of the Laddrostei districts Lüneburg and Osnabrück in the Kingdom of Hanover. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1864, p. 298.
- Elisabeth Schlicht: The Prehistory of the Hümmling. Part 1. The Stone Age. Unprinted dissertation, Kiel 1942, p. 226.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 91.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 142.