Great stone grave Höwisch

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The large stone grave Höwisch was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic deep engraving ceramic culture near Höwisch , a district of the municipality Arendsee (Altmark) in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The tomb was probably destroyed in the 18th or early 19th century.

location

The grave was outside of Höwisch on the associated field mark.

Research history

The system was first documented in 1720 by Johann Georg Keyßler . It was not mentioned in the first complete survey of all the major stone graves in the Altmark by Johann Friedrich Danneil in the 1830s. It was probably destroyed by then. Even Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack were at a record again Altmark megalithic tombs in the 1890s no longer determine residues and had to rely on the information Keys moth.

description

The grave had a mound, which was bordered by a rectangular stone enclosure. Around 1720 this still consisted of 44 stones and was 118 paces long (around 88.5 m) and 12 paces wide (around 9 m). The complex was therefore significantly larger than the largest graves still in existence in the Altmark, such as the Drebenstedt large stone grave (43.8 m), the Leetze 6 large stone grave (37.5 m) or the Lüdelsen 6 large stone grave (35.1 m). The burial chamber was roughly in the middle of the mound. According to Keysler, it had six wall stones and three cap stones; it was probably a large dolmen .

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 55.
  • Johann Georg Keyßler: Antiquitates selectae septentrionales et celticae. Hannover 1720, pp. 319, 518 ( online ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 51 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).