Great stone grave in Möllenhagen

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Great stone grave in Möllenhagen
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Great stone grave Möllenhagen (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 53 ° 31 '26.4 "  N , 12 ° 56' 4.3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '26.4 "  N , 12 ° 56' 4.3"  E
place Möllenhagen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

The Möllenhagen large stone grave is a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Möllenhagen in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).

location

The grave is on the eastern outskirts of Möllenhagen, a few meters north of the federal highway 192 in a meadow.

description

The facility has a rectangular barren bed with still recognizable mounds. There are four stones at the western end and another stone at the eastern end. Ernst Sprockhoff did not succeed in reconstructing the original appearance of the facility more precisely. Ewald Schuldt classified the burial chamber as a large dolmen , while Hans-Jürgen Beier classified it as an extended dolmen .

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. 1, ZDB -ID 916540-X ). Beier & Beran, Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 38, (At the same time: Halle-Wittenberg, University, habilitation paper, 1991: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs in the five new East German federal states (formerly GDR). ) .
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 139.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 44.

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