Eimstorf large stone grave
| Eimstorf large stone grave Large stone grave Langenrehm, the high stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 11 '12.1 " N , 10 ° 40' 29" E | ||
| place | Dahlenburg , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 715 | ||
The large stone grave Eimstorf is a burial site of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Eimstorf in the district of Lüneburg , Lower Saxony, which belongs to the municipality of Dahlenburg . It bears the Sprockhoff number 715.
location
The grave is located east of Eimstorf in a forest, about 100 m away from the point where the road in the village makes a bend in the direction of the B 216 .
description
The complex is oriented exactly north-south and in a mediocre state of preservation. Most of the stones are still preserved, but only a few are still in their original positions. The burial chamber has a length of about 10 m and a width of about 2 m. The mound still reaches a maximum height of 1 m. The chamber originally consisted of seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides and just as many cap stones. One of the capstones disappeared today, the other six fell into the interior of the chamber, one broke. The wall stones have all been preserved, but only the southern end stone and the second stone on the eastern long side when viewed from the south and the second and the penultimate stone on the western long side are in situ .
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
- Franz Krüger: Megalithic graves in the Bleckede, Dannenberg, Lüneburg and Winsen ad Luhe districts. In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, 1927, p. 10, Fig. 3.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 140 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 46.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 25.