Great stone graves near Zeitlow

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Ground plan of a grave near Zeitlow based on von Hagenow

The megalithic graves near Zeitlow were seven megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Zeitlow , a district of Loitz in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were probably destroyed in the late 19th or early 20th century. The existence of the graves was recorded by hand in the 1820s by Friedrich von Hagenow . His notes were published by Hansdieter Berlekamp in 1961 . A floor plan is available for a system. This grave bears the Sprockhoff number 570.

location

Site plan of the large stone graves and burial mounds at Zeitlow, Wüstenfelde, Pensin and Quitzerow according to von Hagenow

The graves were to the east and south-east of Zeitlow. There were once numerous other large stone graves in the area, about southeast near Wüstenfelde and south near Quitzerow and Pensin . The next remaining structures are the large stone graves at Sophienhof, a good 4 km to the east .

The Zeitlow grounds were part of a larger group of megalithic tombs that stretched southwest of Greifswald between Dargelin in the east and Düvier in the west.

description

All of the systems were large dolmen . Five of them were encased in a rolling stone mound. Another system had a giant bed with a rectangular or trapezoidal enclosure. The only grave recorded by von Hagenow in drawings had a circular enclosure, of which 14 stones were apparently still preserved. The apparently largely intact, east-west oriented burial chamber consisted of four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a large end stone on the eastern narrow side, a smaller end stone on the western narrow side, two small adjoining stones and three cap stones.

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. 27.
  • Hansdieter Berlekamp : From the work of Friedrich von Hagenow. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook. Volume 1, 1961, pp. 9-18.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, pp. 133-134.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 88, 90.