Great stone grave in Jeggen
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 16 '32 " N , 8 ° 12' 3" E | ||
| place | Jeggen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 922 | ||
The Jeggen large stone grave is a Neolithic passage grave of the Emsland Chamber type with the Sprockhoff no. 922. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.
location
The large stone grave is located on Niederfeldweg about 300 meters south-east of Jeggen , a district of Bissendorf , in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony .
description
The bearing stones of the 17 × 3 meter north-east-south-west oriented chamber are almost completely preserved, but like the cap stones, some of which have broken, are largely no longer in situ . Remnants of the enclosure and the hill cannot be detected.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The complex is on the street of the megalithic culture
literature
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Hrsg.) : Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments - The Osnabrücker Land III. Volume 44, von Zabern, Mainz 1979.
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 34-35.
- Mamoun Fansa : large stone graves between Weser and Ems . Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-118-5 , pp. 102-103.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 126-127.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.); Working group Neolithic: Varia neolithica. Part VI: Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies: Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual conference of the North-West German Association for Antiquity Research in Schleswig, October 9-10, 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , p. 15.