Lemförde large stone grave

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The large stone grave Lemförde was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Lemförde in the district of Diepholz ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed during the Thirty Years War . It was in a field near Lemförde called a "crooked piece". According to a description from 1607, it was made of large stones with supposedly large letters in an unknown language carved into it. Information on the orientation, dimensions or the type of grave is not available. In the 17th century the complex was believed to be the grave of a general who was killed in a battle between Charlemagne and Widukind .

literature

  • Otto Heise: History from the Lemförde office. In: Archives of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. Year 1849, 1851, p. 80 ( online ).
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, pp. 1–2 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
  • 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. 84.