Great stone grave Krelingen
| Great stone grave Krelingen | |||
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 Stone chamber of Krelingen |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 48 '20.3 " N , 9 ° 40' 15.4" E | ||
| place | Krelingen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 805 | ||
The large stone grave in Krelingen is a passage grave from the Neolithic Age . It is located north of the village of Krelingen , a district of Walsrode , near the Walsrode motorway triangle in Lower Saxony . The passage grave with the Sprockhoff no. 805 was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC in the Neolithic as 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.
Description and excavation
The plant is oriented northwest-southeast. The 8 × 2 meter chamber of the passage grave lies in the remains of the elongated hill. The outer stone surround is modern. Of the original twelve bearing stones, eleven are standing, of which the six bearing stones on the south-western long side and five on the north-eastern long side are still in situ . The flat sides of the bearing stones face the inside. The narrow sides were delimited by a particularly wide boulder , one of which was recently added. The access to the megalithic complex was in a gap in the middle of the southern long side. The capstones of the complex were used for bridge construction in the middle of the 19th century.
Between 1969 and 1972 the facility was scientifically examined and reconstructed. The excavator K. L. Voss discovered various types of interference. The only traces of the original burial in the chamber were two pieces of pottery, fragments of a richly decorated ceramic , in front of the rare, stair-like entrance to the chamber. The facility was probably cleared soon after it was occupied. At the end of the Stone Age, the middle capstone must have broken (been) and fell into the chamber. Through the resulting opening, the people of the individual grave culture got into the still intact row of chambers, as indicated by the shards of giant beakers.
An intervention in the form of a shaft was documented in the early Middle Ages . At the time of Charlemagne , around 4,000 years after the facility was built, someone dug it from the collapse point of the capstone into the natural ground. The backfilling of the chamber, the screed and the pebbles underneath were dug through. The shaft could be dated through the broken pieces of several, partly decorated, vessels.
literature
- Hery A. Lauer : Archaeological walks in northern Lower Saxony. A guide to sights of prehistory and early history. Volume II, Verlag H. Lauer, Angerstein 1979, p. 166.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 76-77.
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica. VI, 2009, p. 15.
