Large stone grave Holzdorf
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 32 '30.6 " N , 9 ° 55' 41.5" E | ||
| place | Holzdorf , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 59 | ||
The large stone grave Holzdorf is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Holzdorf in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . It bears the Sprockhoff number 59.
location
The grave is located southeast of Holzdorf in the forest area Großes Holz. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity : 1.7 km east-southeast are the large stone graves near Rothensande , 2.2 km west-southwest the large stone grave Loose , 2.6 km east-southeast the large stone graves near Kleinwaabs and 2.7 km southeast the large stone grave Sophienhof .
description
The system has a round mound with a diameter of 11 m and a height of 1 m. The burial chamber is a north-west-south-east oriented extended dolmen with a length of 2 m and a width of 1 m. The chamber has two wide wall stones on the north-eastern and three narrower wall stones on the south-western long side as well as a closing stone on each of the narrow sides. Except for the south-eastern end stone, all are still in situ . The cap stones are missing. The access to the chamber was probably on the southeast side and the closing stone there was originally only supposed to have reached half the height of the wall stones.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 20.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Holzdorf Dolmen