Great stone grave Jesteburg

The large stone grave Jesteburg was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Jesteburg in the district of Harburg ( Lower Saxony ). According to Johann Karl Wächter , only a row of six granite blocks remained from the original complex around 1841 , of which the two outer blocks were the largest. According to a report from 1869, the last remains of the grave had also disappeared by this time.

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 155 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
• 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. 36.
• Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 39 ( online ).