Great stone graves near Wittenburg
| Great stone graves near Wittenburg | |||
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| Coordinates | Wittenburg 1 , Wittenburg 2 | ||
| place | Wittenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves near Wittenburg were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wittenburg in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Johann Ritter examined one of the graves in 1840. The second grave was discovered and destroyed by rock breakers around 1906. The finds that have been preserved are now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin .
location
Grave 1 was located south of Wittenburg in the field near the wooded area "The high beeches". Grave 2 was about 2 km northwest near the A 24 . North of Wittenburg were the megalithic graves near Püttelkow , southeast the megalithic grave Bobzin , south the megalithic graves near Helm , southwest the megalithic graves near Perdöhl and northwest the megalithic graves near Karft .
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 was an east-west oriented, chamberless giant bed with a length of 28 feet (approx. 8.4 m) and a width of 20 feet (approx. 6 m). When Ritter examined it, it was surrounded by very round stones. Like the surrounding soil, the mound was made up of yellow sand interspersed with stones and was 3.5 feet (approx. 1.1 m) high. The only remains from the grave were a narrow chisel and a hatchet from flint . The ax has not survived.
Grave 2
No further information is available about the appearance of grave 2. Several grave goods were found when it was destroyed. A thin, trapezoidal hatchet made of flint and a dark brown bowl with a V-shaped stamp decoration from a reburial of the spherical amphora culture have survived . A chisel and the shards of two ceramic vessels presumably from the time of the funnel beaker have not survived.
literature
- 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. 18.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 101 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 104 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Panel tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, plate 16/148.
- 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.
- Johann Ritter : Hünengrab von Wittenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 5, 1840, pp. 23-24 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 127.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 33.
