Large stone graves in Garen
| Large stone graves in Garen Large stone graves "Am high stone" and "The high stone" |
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 Great stone grave "the high stone" (963) |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 48 '27.2 " N , 7 ° 45' 6.6" E | ||
| place | Lindern , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 963-964 | ||
The large stone graves in Garen (also called large stone graves "Am hoch Stein" and "Der Höhe Stein") are neighboring Neolithic passage graves in Garen, with the Sprockhoff number. 964 and 963. They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And are 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.
In Garen, about three kilometers south of Lindern , in the Cloppenburg district in Lower Saxony , the Hünensteinweg (side road) that leads to Wachtum begins . Halfway (2.5 kilometers) between the towns, the northwestern route to the facilities is marked by two boulders on the road . A footpath leads (at the fork on the left) after about 150 meters to the first ("Am high stone"), after another 150 meters to the second ("The high stone") megalithic complex.
The grave 963 is referred to in Die Bau und Kunstdenkmäler des Duchy Oldenburg , Issue 3, from 1906, as "Monument on the High Stone" and grave 964 as "High Stone". The names on the information boards also do not match Sprockhoff's designation. Nothing of the surrounds has been preserved in either of the two systems.
At the high stone
Before you get to the "Hohen Stein", you come over a small hill on which eleven stones lie (nine bearing stones, two cap stones, one of which has fallen). The formerly 8 × 1.6 meter large, almost west-east oriented chamber has been completely destroyed. The hill is still recognizable.
The high stone
The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems , which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands. The disturbed Emsland Chamber lies on a sand dune about three meters high. Of the approximately 9.2 × 2.5 meters measuring north-east-south-west oriented chamber there are still 15 bearing stones, some of them in situ . Of the six original capstones, three are missing, the others have fallen into the chamber, and one is broken. The largest capstone measures 2.45 × 1.6 × 1.0 meters.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The complex is on the street 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 , p. 79.
- Jörg Eckert: Archaeological monuments between Weser and Ems . Isensee 2000, ISBN 3-89598-752-2 , p. 228.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 140.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15