Great stone grave Friedland
| Great stone grave Friedland Geldkeller, Geldkellerberg | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 41'27.3 " N , 13 ° 31'25.8" E | ||
| place | Friedland , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 450 | ||
The large stone grave Friedland (also called Geldkeller or Geldkellerberg ) is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Friedland in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 450. Ludwig Brückner carried out an investigation here.
location
The grave is located about 3.5 km northwest of Friedland, west of the road to Bresewitz . Two destroyed Neolithic stone boxes are also known from Friedland .
description
The complex has a north-west-south-east facing burial chamber encased by a rolling stone mound, which is an enlarged dolmen . The chamber has a length of 2 m and a width of 1.5 m. It consists of two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a capping stone in the northwest and a narrow stone in the southeast, which allows access. All wall stones are still in situ . The capstone is missing. The chamber floor is paved with limestone slabs.
A vessel, a ceramic shard and a decorated bone plate were found among grave goods. These ended up in Brückner's private collection and are now lost.
Ewald Schuldt and Hans-Jürgen Beier report the grave as destroyed. This may be due to a faulty entry by Schuldt, who mistook the state of preservation of the large stone grave for a stone box in Friedland. Ernst Sprockhoff and Ingeburg Nilius keep it as preserved.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 28.
- Robert Beltz: A megalithic grave near Friedland. In: Mecklenburg. Journal of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg. Volume 11, 1916, p. 42ff.
- Adolf Hollnagel : The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds of the district of Neubrandenburg. Petermänken, Schwerin 1962, p. 41.
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 95.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 134.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : The Nordic megalithic culture (= manual of the prehistory of Germany. Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, pp. 24, 28, 30.
- Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 59.