Great stone graves near Zarrentin

The large stone graves near Zarrentin were four megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Zarrentin , a district of Sassen-Trantow in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were probably destroyed in the 19th century. 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 Zarrentin were only included in a list. Their exact location, dimensions and orientation are unknown. It is only noted that all four graves were large dolmen .

The Zarrentin grounds are part of a larger group of megalithic tombs that extend southwest of Greifswald between Dargelin in the east and Düvier in the west. The next preserved structures are the megalithic stone graves in the north near Sassen .

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. 4.
• Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 117.