Great stone graves for goods
| Great stone graves for goods Heisterstein (grave 1), Kleiner Heisterstein (grave 2) | |||
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| Coordinates | Goods 1 , goods 2 | ||
| place | Waren (Müritz) , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 428-429 | ||
The megalithic graves near Waren were probably four megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Waren (Müritz) in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Of these, only two graves still exist today. They have the Sprockhoff numbers 428 and 429. Grave 1 is also called Heisterstein ( Elsterstein ) and grave 2 Kleiner Heisterstein . Two other graves were destroyed in the 19th and early 20th centuries, no further information is available about them.
location
The two preserved graves are located about 4 km northeast of Waren in a forest. Behind the fork in the road from Waren to Torgelow am See or Groß Gievitz , a forest path runs between the two routes. Immediately on the northern part of this path is grave 1. Grave 2 is located 260 m south-southwest of it. A third grave was near the country road to Güstrow. The location of the fourth grave is not known. There are other large stone graves in the immediate vicinity: The Klein Gievitz large stone grave is located 1.3 km to the north-north-west ; To the south-southwest is the Schmachthagen large stone grave .
History of research and destruction
The Heisterstein and the Kleine Heisterstein were first described in more detail in 1840 by Senator Freund from Waren. He also mentioned a third grave, which had already been badly damaged by rock slippers a few years earlier. In 1899 Robert Beltz gave the somewhat cryptic statement “Goods: 3 stone chambers. […] Sum 4 “This should be understood to mean that three graves were still there and another was destroyed. Ernst Sprockhoff recorded graves 1 and 2 for his atlas of megalithic tombs in Germany in 1932 ; the third grave has probably been destroyed in the meantime. In 1972 Ewald Schuldt listed two preserved and two destroyed graves.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 has a flat, round mound with a diameter of 13 m and a preserved height of 1.1 m. The hill was riddled with pebbles . There is an east-west oriented burial chamber , which is an enlarged dolmen . The chamber has two wall stones on the long sides, the two western ones of which have been preserved in situ . The eastern stone on the north side has sunk into the interior of the chamber, the eastern stone on the south side has moved. The western capstone is in situ, the eastern one is missing. Both capstones have been preserved, but only the western one, albeit a bit shifted, still rests on the wall stones, the eastern one has been rolled off. The burial chamber has a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1.5 m.
Grave 2
Grave 2 also originally had a rolling stone hill. The name Kleiner Heisterstein is a bit misleading, as the east-west oriented burial chamber is a large dolmen , which is 3.4 m long and 1.8 m wide than grave 1. However, the state of preservation is somewhat poorer. The chamber originally had three pairs of wall stones on the long sides. The three stones on the north side are almost preserved in situ. One stone has been preserved in situ on the south side, the other two are missing. The western capstone has been moved, the eastern one is missing. A capstone with a length of 2.2 m, a width of 1.95 m and a thickness of 1 m lies inside the chamber; Remnants of the second capstone are scattered around.
literature
- The Heisterstein of Waren. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 5, 1840, pp. 100-101 ( online ).
- 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. 38.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 97 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : Old Graves - Early Castles. Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1964, Fig. 24.
- Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 139.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 44.