Great stone grave Blankensee
The Großsteingrab Blankensee (also stone grave near Blankensee ; Hünengrab Blankensee ) is a dolmen in a wooded area in Lübeck-Blankensee (in the Lübeck district of St. Jürgen ) in Schleswig-Holstein - near the B 207 and A 20 - with the Sprockhoff number 249. The megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr.
description
The passage grave is located in a slight depression in the area surrounded by a low fence. The grave, which was erected in a west-east direction, is about eight meters long and (with parts of the corridor) about 3.5 m wide and about two meters high. The interior is about five meters long, about 1.5 m wide and less than a meter high.
The passage grave, known as the “ Holstein Chamber ”, consists of large boulders . Four bearing stones on the northern side, five (or six) bearing stones on the southern long side support the four cap stones (the two western ones of which are of considerable size); two end stones on the western and one end stone on the eastern narrow side close the chamber. One of the carrier stones under the largest capstone appears to have sunk.
The collapsed entrance to the chamber was in the east of the southern long side. The cap stones are missing or are no longer on the bearing stones (some of which can be identified as such), the transition is barely recognizable due to the sunken bearing stone.
The curb stones of the mound (which indicate the original size of the mound covering it) are still there and partially visible. In the northwest (at a distance of about three to four meters from the burial chamber) there are ten boulders standing in an arch; in the southwest (at a distance of about three to 1.5 m from the burial chamber) there is a row of five erratic boulders that connect to the stones that form the entrance to the chamber. This makes the hill one of the very rare D-shaped specimens next to Gowens , Plön district, in which the chamber is arranged at an angle.
history
The age of the Neolithic megalithic complex is estimated to be between 5000 and 5500 years.
The large stone grave was archaeologically examined in 1857 . The original, flat mound of earth around the chamber was removed or cleared to the side, which is why the grave is now located in a depression measuring around 1.5 m. The backfill originally located between the stones visible today has been removed.
During the investigation of the burial mound, human bones and two pottery shards were found in the burial chamber.
In the earth of the burial mound , a hatchet made of flint and a knife made of bronze were found , possibly as traces of one or more Bronze Age (subsequent) burials .
The large stone grave Lübeck-Blankensee (from the northeast)
The Lübeck-Blankensee large stone grave (from the east) - the remains of the entrance are on the left
The northwestern support stones at the Lübeck-Blankensee large stone grave
Others
The large stone grave is protected as an archaeological monument .
See also
literature
- W. Neugebauer: The megalithic grave of Blankensee, Hanseatic City of Lübeck. In: Guide to Prehistoric and Protohistoric Monuments. Volume 10. Hanseatic City of Lübeck · Ostholstein · Kiel. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1968, pp. 101-104.
- Peter Schemainda: Lübeck and the surrounding area. Part 3: A travel guide to selected archaeological, art historical, technical and natural history monuments in and around Lübeck. Ed. Ingrid Sudhoff for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2005; therein Chapter 40, p. 93 and 94.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 65–66.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Blankensee Huenengrab
- strahlen.org: Large stone grave "Blankensee", Blankensee near Lübeck
- cruptorix.nl: Blankensee
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '26.9 " N , 10 ° 42' 4.7" E