Large stone graves near the Düvelskuhlen
| Large stone graves near the Düvelskuhlen Düvelskuhlen I and II - also Sögel II and III | |||
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 The large stone grave at Düvelskuhlen I |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 48 '53.1 " N , 7 ° 29' 3.5" E | ||
| place | Sögel , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 831-832 | ||
The large stone graves at the Düvelskuhlen (Düvelskuhlen I and II - also called Sögel II and III) are neighboring Neolithic passage graves with the Sprockhoff numbers. 831 and 832. They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.
They are located south of Sögel and south of the Düvelskuhlen in a wooded area on both sides of the K127 (Sögeler Str.) To Groß Stavern in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .
Düvelskuhlen I
The Düvelskuhlen I facility, which is roughly west-east oriented, was embedded in a hill about 1.6 meters high and 30 × 25 meters in size until 1932. When Sprockhoff cataloged the grave in 1926, only a rudimentary picture emerged. In 1932 the system was uncovered during the first excavation of its kind in the Emsland and restored to its present state. 35 stones of the oval border, nine bearing stones and four cap stones, the nine-meter-long chamber and two stones of the entrance were uncovered. The entrance to the Emsland Chamber , which rarely happens, is not in the middle, but shifted to the west.
Düvelskuhlen II
The neighboring south-west-north-east oriented facility Düvelskuhlen II is not an Emsland chamber, but a huge bed . There are giant beds in the Emsland only in Groß Berßen , Klein Stavern ( Deymanns Mühle IV ) and here. The rectangular megalithic bed, of which 41 granite stones are still preserved, is 19.0 × 5.5 meters in size, the almost central chamber with once four capstones, the southwest capstone is missing, is six × three meters. Sprockhoff's inventory from 1926 was lost, a sketch by Sögel archaeologist and prehistorian Elisabeth Schlicht (1914–1989) from 1942 shows clear deviations from the current situation. Chisel marks and drill holes on several stones are traces of destruction.
The Mans mountains are one of the largest hill graves fields of the western Lower Saxony . They are unevenly scattered south of the megalithic graves near the Düvelskuhlen.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The facilities are part of the Route of the Megalithic Culture .
literature
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 64-66.
- Elisabeth Schlicht : The Prehistory of the Hümmling. Part 1. The Stone Age. Unprinted dissertation, Kiel 1942, pp. 177–178.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 95.
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15