Great stone grave in Mösenthin

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The large stone grave Mösenthin was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic deep- engraved ceramic culture near Mösenthin , a district of Kalbe (Milde) in the Altmark district of Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The grave was destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The grave was in a straight line between the places Mösenthin and Zierau , near the border with Jeggeleben .

Research history

The facility was documented for the first time in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil , but he only left handwritten notes about this. When the great stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that the grave had since been completely removed in the course of the separation .

description

The grave had a pile of mounds, which was surrounded by a stone wreath. When Danneil took this, only a single, large boulder made of granite with a diameter of 3.75 m was visible of the burial chamber . It is no longer possible to determine the type of grave.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 58.
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, p. 161 or no. ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).