Great stone graves from Gaarzerhof
| Great stone graves from Gaarzerhof | |||||
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| Coordinates | Great stone grave Gaarzerhof 1 , Great stone grave Gaarzerhof 2 | ||||
| place | Rerik , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||||
| Sprockhoff no. | 327 and 328 | ||||
The megalithic tombs of Gaarzerhof , a passage grave and a great dolmen in the barrow was founded in 1967 by Adolf Hollnagel (the passage grave) and Ewald Schuldt (the great dolmen) studied and restored. They have the Sprockhoff numbers. 327 and 328. The megalithic systems were built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as large stone graves 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 the road from Kröpelin to Rerik (L122), 100 m apart, where, before Rerik, in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the road branches off from "Kröpeliner Straße" to the Neu Gaarz district, in the field.
The passage grave
The east-west oriented chamber was originally in Rollstein Hill. Only one of the 13 supporting stones is missing, on the north side. The 1.5 m high and 1.9 m wide chamber is 6.7 m long. Its only partially preserved, 0.8 m wide laterally eccentric corridor, lies on the south side and is three meters long. Threshold stones are located at the beginning and in the middle of the corridor. The complex originally had five cap stones, two of which have been preserved.
The passage grave was reused by the bearers of the individual grave culture . The floorboard is made of clay screed . In addition to charcoal and 332 shards, 16 cross cutters , nine blades , five striking stones , four double-conical vessels, four single burial beakers, three amber beads (one in the shape of a double ax ), two flat hatchets, two bowls, two spherical amphorae, a scraper and a shoulder vessel were found.
The large dolmen
The north-south oriented large dolmen of Gaarzerhof, which initially lay in an almost square barn bed 9.5 m long and 8.5 m wide, was finally covered with a round hill. Only the northern and southern sides of the rectangular barrow have been preserved. Two of the former three capstones of the chamber are still in place. The 1.6 m high trapezoidal chamber is 5.0 m long and 1.9 m wide in the north, it tapers on one side at the south end, through an angled bearing stone to 1.2 m. This is followed by the 1.2 m long, 0.6 m wide and 0.8 m high corridor, which is complete except for the ceiling tiles. There is a threshold stone at the beginning of the corridor . The chamber plank, which has been annealed red by firing, consists of annealed flint and clay screed. It has three quarters . In the chamber, the panels of the intermediate masonry lay scattered in the filling floor, this was verifiably already done during the Neolithic . In addition to human bones, charcoal and 215 shards, there were 22 amber beads (four of which were double-axed), 22 cross cutters , 13 blades , 10 blowstones , seven blade scrapers, five double-conical vessels, four bowls, three amphorae, two pieces of tip, a thick-necked hatchet and a flat hatchet.
See also
literature
- Adolf Hollnagel : The passage grave of Gaarzerhof, Bad Doberan district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1968. 1970, pp. 101-119.
- Luise Lorenz: Ceramic lifetimes and the useful life of northeast German megalithic graves. In: Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller (eds.): Settlement, trench works, large stone grave. Studies on the society, economy and environment of the funnel cup groups in northern Central Europe (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 2). Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3774938137 , pp. 61-86 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : Two large dolmen with corridors from Gaarzerhof and Mechelsdorf, Bad Doberan district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1968. 1970, pp. 149-177.
- Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1972.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 8.
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15
- ↑ This in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern frequently encountered stone cover (no cairn or Röse ) is a thin layer of stone pebbles on a mound, which prevent erosion or the optics should impart a stone hill
- ↑ The distribution area of this pearl shape is limited to the northern group and the eastern part of the western group of the TBK with a focus on North Jutland and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where they mainly come from megalithic graves
Web links
- Description, pictures and plan of the passage grave (private site)
- Description, pictures and plan of the large dolmen (private site)