Königstedt stone grave

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The large stone grave Königstedt was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic deep engraving ceramic culture near Königstedt , a district of Salzwedel in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The grave was destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The grave was in the direction of Liesten , in the area of ​​the deserted Milow on the parcel "in the cold bush".

Research history

The facility was first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the great stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that the grave had since been completely removed in the course of the separation .

description

The grave was partially destroyed when Danneil was taken. It had a stone enclosure with a length of 9.4 m and a width of 3.1 m. Almost all of the surrounding stones were still there. The wall stones of the burial chamber were still standing, but the capstone had already been blown up. Dimensions or a more precise description of the chamber are not available. It is therefore no longer possible to determine the type of grave.

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. 57.
  • Johann Friedrich Danneil: Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark. In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. 1843, No. 142 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 189 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).