Great stone graves near Wörmlitz

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The megalithic graves near Wörmlitz were probably three megalithic Neolithic graves near Wörmlitz , 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

Grave 1 was not far from Wörmlitz, near the road to Tryppehna . On the other side of the village, by the windmill, were graves 2 and 3. Grave 2 was on the Windmühlenberg, a hill next to the windmill. Grave 3 on the neighboring hill where the windmill itself stood.

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

In Abel's investigation, grave 1 was called "Hünensteine". It had a somewhat irregular shape and still consisted of 85 stones. It had a burial chamber that still had nine wall stones, including the two closing stones on the narrow sides. There was also a capstone, but it had slipped off the stones. The chamber was probably a large dolmen or a passage grave.

Grave 2

Grave 2 was already so badly damaged when Abel was taken that it was no longer possible to give precise details of its shape. Only four stones were left, but they were still in situ and were apparently wall stones of a burial chamber.

Grave 3

Abel could only make out the hill of grave 3, which seemed to him to be of artificial origin. Apparently there were no more stones. It is therefore not possible to determine the type of grave.

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. 46.
  • 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, p. 255.