Great stone grave Croatian hill
| Great stone grave Croatian hill Great stone grave Sudenburg | |||
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 The large stone grave Croatian hill in today's destroyed state |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 6 '32.4 " N , 11 ° 35' 10.5" E | ||
| place | Magdeburg - Sudenburg , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3350 to 2650 BC Chr. | ||
The Großsteingrab Kroatenhügel (also Großsteingrab Sudenburg ) is a destroyed Neolithic grave in the Magdeburg district of Sudenburg .
description
The grave was located in an elevation called "Croatian Hill", which for a long time was unknown to be an archaeological ground monument . It was not until 1970 that it was discovered during construction work that it contained a large stone grave. The removal of the grave was supposed to be supervised by the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum , but this did not materialize. When the museum employee Gert Böttcher finally documented the remains of the grave, the hill and grave chamber had already been completely removed. Only the stones were still there, but they were scattered around and were no longer in their original locations. The grave must therefore be regarded as destroyed.
Despite this difficult initial situation, Böttcher attempted a hypothetical reconstruction of the grave. On the basis of comparisons with large stone graves in the Magdeburg area, he assumed that the grave may have belonged to the passage grave or large dolmen type . The burial chamber was five to seven meters long and two to three meters wide. Maybe it had a trapezoidal floor plan. The long sides each had four to six wall stones from 1.40 to 1.60 meters in height, the narrow sides one to three each. Three or four stones formed the ceiling of the chamber. Perhaps a short covered corridor with two to six wall stones formed the entrance to the chamber. Members of the Walternienburg culture (3350–3100 BC) or the Bernburg culture (3100–2650 BC) may be considered as builders of the grave .
The stones, which are still scattered about, are now in the back yard of a new block that is bordered by Astonstraße, Bundschuhstraße and Florian-Geyer-Straße.
The Croatian hill in regional sagas
The Croatian hill owes its name to a legend that goes back to the Thirty Years War . During the siege of Magdeburg in early 1631, a Croat belonging to the imperial troops under Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly is said to have shot the finial from the south tower of Magdeburg Cathedral with a cannon .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific articles 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ISSN 0440-1298 , p. 93.
- Gerd Böttcher: Great stone graves in the urban area of Magdeburg. In: Magdeburg leaves. 1987, pp. 76-81.
- Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Magdeburg cemeteries and burial places . State capital Magdeburg, City Planning Office Magdeburg, Magdeburg 1998, p. 13 ( PDF; 6.3 MB ).
