Great stone grave Kruckow 1

The large stone grave Kruckow 1 has a north-south-oriented trapezoidal border, in which the east-west-oriented chamber of a large dolmen is located, which was excavated and reconstructed in 1969 by Adolf Hollnagel . He bears the Sprockhoff no. 562. The megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr.

location

The plant is located between Siedenbrünzow and Kruckow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district , near the border with the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , immediately north of the federal highway 110 .

Hünenbett von Kruckow - in the diagram at the bottom left (with guard stones)

description

All but four of the 39 stones that surround the megalithic bed have been preserved, including the four guard stones . On the southern, broad side of the trapezoidal barren bed, near which the large transverse dolmen is located, the facade consists of six blocks set at a greater distance and is slightly concave.

The approximately one meter high chamber of the dolmen is a total of 6.8 m long, trapezoidal and 2.3 m wide at the rear. The almost two meter long coaxial antechamber is 1.3 m wide. All nine bearing stones and all four cap stones of the chamber are present. The same goes for the supporting stones and cap stones of the antechamber; only the short corridor is deprived of most of its stones. The chamber had four quarters .

A. Hollnagel identified a use by the carriers of the TBK and the spherical amphora culture . In addition to animal and human cooking (including nine skulls), corpse burn and charcoal were found. The additions include 14 shards, eleven sheeters , eight amber beads (three of which are double-axed ), seven bone pendants , six blades , three bone tools , three bowls, two funnel bowls, two individual burial beakers, a spherical amphora, a tall pot, a hammer stone , a thick hatchet , a flat hatchet and an ax with a bent neck.

literature

Luise Lorenz: Ceramic lifetimes and the useful life of northeast German megalithic graves. In: Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller (eds.): Settlement, trench works, large stone grave. Studies on the society, economy and environment of the funnel cup groups in northern Central Europe (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 2). Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3774938137 , pp. 61-86 ( online ).

Adolf Hollnagel : A trapezoidal barn bed with large dolmen near Kruckow, Demmin district In: Yearbook of the maintenance of historical monuments in Mecklenburg 1970. (1971) pp. 175–191.

Gundula Lidke: The large dolmen of Kruckow, Kr. Demmin. New aspects of the occupancy process and funeral services . In: G. Mangelsdorf (Ed.): From the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Greifswald messages 3. Frankfurt a. M. 1999 pp. 9-22.

Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Investigations into their architecture and function (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Vol. 6, ISSN 0138-4279 ). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1972.

Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 86–87.

Individual evidence

↑ The distribution area of this pearl shape is limited to the northern group and the eastern part of the western group of the TBK with a focus on North Jutland and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where they mainly come from megalithic graves

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Kruckow 1 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

53.899312 13.199156Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 13 ° 11 ′ 57 ″ E

[1] The distribution area of this pearl shape is limited to the northern group and the eastern part of the western group of the TBK with a focus on North Jutland and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where they mainly come from megalithic graves