Great stone grave Elstorf
| Great stone grave Elstorf | |||
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 Painting of the large stone grave near Elstorf by Jacob Gensler, 1839 |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 25 '16.9 " N , 9 ° 49' 35.9" E | ||
| place | Neu Wulmstorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 670 | ||
The Elstorf large stone grave is one between 3500 and 2800 BC. A system of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) that was built near the district of Elstorf in the district of Harburg , Lower Saxony, which belongs to the Neu Wulmstorf community . It bears the Sprockhoff number 670.
location
The grave is located two kilometers east of the village center of the Neu Wulmstorf district of Schwiederstorf, which borders on Elstorf, in the Rosengarten state forest. The Daerstorf large stone grave lies about 470 m to the northeast, also in the state forest . There are also several Bronze Age burial mounds in the vicinity .
description
The facility is in a very bad state of preservation. The burial chamber is oriented west-northwest-east-southeast and has a length of about 3 m and a width of about 1.5 m. An oil painting by Jacob Gensler from 1839 shows it still almost intact with three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and just as many cap stones. These have almost all disappeared today. Only the end stone on the east-south-east narrow side is still in situ . Another stone, either the end stone of the west-northwest narrow side or a cap stone, has fallen over. In 1952 Willi Wegewitz carried out an excavation. Remnants of the paved chamber floor came to light. The wall stones formerly on the south-south-western long side were found to be in an irregular position, which suggests that an entrance could have been located here. The complex would therefore be classed as a passage grave type .
See also
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Edited from the estate by Gerhard Körner. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 30.
- Willi Wegewitz : Work report of the Helms Museum for the time from l. April 1950 to March 31, 1954. In: Museum and Heimatverein Harburg Stadt und Land eV (Hrsg.): Harburger Jahrbuch . No. 5 , 1955, ISSN 0722-6055 , p. 173–176 ( PDF in the Hamburg State and University Library ).
- Willi Wegewitz : Three new large stone graves in the Harburg district. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz . Volume 2, 1955, pp. 27-54, here p. 47 ( online ).
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Elstorf Steingrab