Granzin stone grave (Greven)

The Granzin large stone grave was a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Granzin , a district of Greven in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was destroyed in the 19th century. Johann Ritter examined the grave in 1839. Robert Beltz led it together with the neighboring megalithic graves near Bengerstorf in 1899 when it had run out.

location

The grave was located southwest of Granzin. The megalithic stone graves were located a few hundred meters to the southeast near Bengerstorf, east of the road to Boizenburg / Elbe on the summit of the Pfänderberg. There were also numerous Bronze Age burial mounds in the vicinity of the three large stone graves .

description

The facility was a north-northeast-south-southwest oriented chamberless giant bed with a length of 70 paces (approx. 53 m) and a width of 10 paces (approx. 7.5 m). The stone enclosure was still intact on three sides when Ritter examined it. The south-southwest end had been ransacked to remove the stones. There, Ritter found pottery shards, bones and charcoal .

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. 18.
• Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 96 ( online ).
• Johann Ritter : Hune graves from Goldenbow. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 4, 1839, p. 77 ( online ).
• Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 127.