Great stone grave Grumfeld West
| Great stone grave Grumfeld West | |||
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 Grumfeld West |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '1.1 " N , 7 ° 52' 51.9" E | ||
| place | Ankum , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 895 | ||
The megalithic grave Grumfeld West is a Neolithic passage grave combination with the Sprockhoff no. 895. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. In two phases as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems, which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands.
location
The large stone grave is located as station 8 on the "Archaeological Hiking Trail Giersfeld " in the Fürstenau Mountains, north of Ueffeln near the L 70 in the municipality of Ankum in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony . The facility on the grounds of a golf course is located on the street of the megalithic culture .
description
The north-east-south-west oriented system consists of two chambers, in two originally separate, later combined enclosures of ultimately 32.5 meters in length. One was oval, the other rectangular, so the unified border has different ends. The western double-trapezoidal chamber had ten cap stones and is almost complete in terms of the bearing stones. It is about 17 meters long and has an average width of about 2.5 meters. In their area there is an eccentric corridor oriented to the south, which is typical for the Emsland chambers . The eastern rectangular and narrower chamber is separated from the western one by a free zone. Half of its capstones are missing or, like most bearing stones, are still in the mound.
The large stone grave was completely exposed and made accessible and tangible. On May 11, 2015, the day of the European megalithic culture , the Lower Saxony state archaeologist Henning Haßmann opened the tomb .
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The complex is on the street of the megalithic culture
literature
- Mamoun Fansa : Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany 31 . Stuttgart 1995
- 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. 118.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State archaeologist presents a large stone grave near Ankum in NOZ from May 11, 2015