Großsteingrab Forstort Großenholz

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The Großsteingrab Forstort Großenholz (also called Prinzengruft or Prinzenstein ) was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the forest village of Großenholz, west of Zeven in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the late 19th century. In the 1890s there was only one wall stone and one capstone left. The latter had a length of 2 m, a width of 1.5 m and a thickness of 1 m. The names Prinzengruft and Prinzenstein are derived from a legend according to which a prince who died in the Thirty Years' War was buried here with a golden saber . The search for this saber also contributed significantly to the destruction of the tomb.

literature

  • Johannes Heinrich Müller : Pagan monuments in the northeast of the province of Hanover. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 18, 1886, p. 558 ( online ).
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 226 ( 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. 19.