Great stone grave Laer
| Great stone grave Laer Düvelstein | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 7 '13.9 " N , 8 ° 3' 45.1" E | ||
| place | Bad Laer , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Laer (also known as Düvelstein , "Devil's Stone") is a heavily destroyed grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the municipality of Bad Laer in the district of Osnabrück , Lower Saxony .
location
The grave is located about three kilometers northwest of Laer near Vogelsang on the road to the Teufelsstein.
description
Today only the remainder of a mound remains of the complex. Stones are no longer there, but a stone that was built into a former pig pens can be identified as originally coming from here. Several stones appear to have remained in place in the 1850s. F. Jostes and W. Effmann published a description and a reconstruction drawing of the grave, which had already been destroyed at that time, in 1888. Accordingly, seven smaller stones were grouped around a larger one in a horseshoe shape. To the west of it there are supposed to have been columns, consisting of upright stones with a base stone each. This construction, which is quite unusual for large stone graves, is based exclusively on verbal information from a local farmer and ultimately gives little information about the actual original appearance of the grave.
Jostes and Effmann carried out excavations on the hill. Their search was unsuccessful in the area of the actual burial chamber. On the southern slope, however, they came across the fragments of some very poorly preserved urns .
The large stone grave in regional sagas
According to a legend, the remains of the grave are said to have been a pagan church that was built by the devil. Hence the name "Düvelstein (e)" ("devil stones"). Walls are said to have existed from this church once. According to Jostes and Effmann, however, the farmer who removed the last stones in the 1850s could not see any remains of the wall.
literature
- F. Jostes, W. Effmann: Pre-Christian antiquities in the Gaue Süderberge (Iburg). In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. Volume 46, 1888, pp. 45-95, Plates II-III.
- 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. 128.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 112.
