Large stone graves near Wehrland
| Large stone graves near Wehrland | |||
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 Great stone graves 3 and 5 near Wehrland |
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| Coordinates | Wehrland 1 , Wehrland 2 , Wehrland 3 , Wehrland 4 , Wehrland 5 , Wehrland 6 , Wehrland 7 , Wehrland 8 , Wehrland 9 | ||
| place | Zemitz , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 555-556 | ||
The megalithic graves near Wehrland were 18 or 19 megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wehrland , a district of Zemitz in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there are only nine plants left. Graves 1–3 have the Sprockhoff numbers 555–556. The remaining graves were probably destroyed in the 19th century.
location
Graves 1 to 5 form a group. You are right at the southwest exit of Wehrland on the street Zum Hünengrab. They are only a few meters apart. Grave 6 is 720 m to the east. Grave 7 is just under 70 m southeast of it. 200 m southwest of grave 7 is grave 8 and another 60 m southwest of grave 9. Graves 6 to 9 are on fenced off grounds and are not open to the public. The original locations of the destroyed facilities have not been handed down.
Research history
The existence of the graves was recorded by hand in the 1820s by Friedrich von Hagenow . His notes, which were intended to record the entire inventory of the megalithic graves on Rügen and in New Western Pomerania , were published by Rudolf Baier in 1904 . The systems at Wehrland were only included in a list. On August 17, 1931, Ernst Sprockhoff visited Wehrland to record the graves there for his atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany . On the basis of information from a measuring table sheet , he assumed only three preserved graves. Ewald Schuldt discovered six preserved graves in the 1970s. He gave the total number of systems at 19, although he only referred to von Hagenow, who gave only 18. During later inspections, three other preserved systems were found.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 has a north-east-south-west oriented, trapezoidal barn bed with a length of 44 m and a width of 6 m in the north-east and 4 m in the south-west. The enclosure is only incomplete. When Sprockhoff took the picture, there were still twelve stones on the north-western long side, 17 on the south-eastern long side, three on the north-eastern face and two on the south-western narrow side. Holes can be seen at the northeastern end of the megalithic bed. According to Sprockhoff, there was the burial chamber there . It is unclear whether it was a dolmen or a small, non-megalithic chamber, which means that the grave could be seen as a chamberless barn bed .
Grave 2
The north-east-south-west oriented system stands on a hill 75 m long, 16 m wide and 1.5 m high. The actual megalithic bed is between 4 m and 5 m wide, the length cannot be determined with certainty. When Sprockhoff took the picture, the enclosure still had 24 stones on the north-western long side and 22 stones on the south-eastern long side. Here, too, no (preserved) chamber could be found.
Grave 3
Grave 3 stands on a 57 m long and 10 m wide hill. It has a northeast-southwest oriented, trapezoidal barn bed with a length of 26 m and a width of 7 m in the northeast. The southwest end has not been preserved, but its width should have been 4.5 m. In the north-eastern half of the megalithic bed there is a heavily damaged, transverse burial chamber, which is probably a large dolmen . It has a length of 3.5 m and a width of 1.3 m. There are only two wall stones left on the southwest long side.
Grave 4
Grave 4 has an oval, north-south oriented mound. Only a few stones of the burial chamber are recognizable, which do not allow any clear conclusions to be drawn about the type of grave.
Grave 5
Grave 5 has a round pile of mounds. The few recognizable stones do not allow any clear conclusions to be drawn about the type of grave. Ewald Schuld classified it as a large dolmen.
Grave 6
From grave 6 only an elongated hill is recognizable, on which several large stones lie. According to Ewald Schuldt, it is a large dolmen.
Grave 7
From grave 6, too, only an elongated hill can be seen on which there are some large stones.
Grave 8
Grave 8 is on a tree-lined hill. No detailed information is available about the form and condition of the system.
Grave 9
Grave 8 is on a tree-lined hill. No detailed information is available about the form and condition of the system.
The destroyed graves
The list of Hagenows only reveals that 13 graves were large dolmen without stone surrounds and five graves were complexes with rectangular or trapezoidal megalithic beds. Most of the destroyed graves should therefore be regarded as simple large dolmen.
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. 18.
- 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. 15.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 125.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 85.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Grave 1 , Grave 2 , Grave 3 , Grave 4 , Grave 5 , Grave 6 , Grave 7 , Grave 8 , Grave 9
- KLEKs online: graves 1–5 , grave 6 (here listed as grave mound) , grave 7 (here listed as grave 2) , grave 8 (here listed as grave 3) , grave 9 (here listed as grave 4)
- strahlen.org: grave 1 , grave 2 , grave 3 , grave 4 , grave 5 , grave 6 , grave 7