Great stone grave Marienborn 1

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Great stone grave sacrificial stone

The large stone grave Marienborn 1 (called the sacrificial stone) is a cult site that is only partially visible. It is located in the Lappwald of Marienborn, southeast of Helmstedt in Saxony-Anhalt . There are only three cap stones and the upper edge of a bearing stone above the forest floor. The rest is probably still in the ground. Hans-Jürgen Beier gives the finding “large stone grave” 1995 as secured.

In the front capstone there are two possibly artificially recessed, approximately head-sized circular formations, which gave the complex the name "sacrificial stone". There are some bowls on the rear capstone . The material is tuber quartzite , in which bulbous indentations and bulges are not uncommon.

The Marienborn Forest and the Harbke Forest have become better known among prehistorians as megalithic areas , which until 1989 belonged to the "forbidden zone" due to the close inner German border . Hans-Jürgen Beier suspects that a larger part of the systems has been sunk into the ground, which together with the short chamber length is a characteristic of the "Hercynian megalithic", which is primarily associated with the Walternienburg-Bernburg culture . The Lappwald and its fringes are to be understood as a transition zone between the Nordic and Central German culture area of ​​the funnel cup culture (TBK).

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific articles 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, ISSN  0440-1298 .
  • Ernst Probst : Germany in the Stone Age , pp. 380–385, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-572-01058-6 .
  • Karin Schwertfeger: Walternienburger Kultur , pp. 195–202. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier and R. Einicke (eds.): The Neolithic in the Middle Elbe-Saale area. An overview and an outline of the state of research . Beier & Beran publishing house, Wilkau-Hasslau 1994, ISBN 3-930036-05-3 .
  • Marcel Torres-Blanco: Bernburger Kultur , pp. 159–177. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier and R. Einicke (eds.): The Neolithic in the Middle Elbe-Saale area. An overview and an outline of the state of research . Beier & Beran publishing house, Wilkau-Hasslau 1994, ISBN 3-930036-05-3 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 11 ° 5 ′ 50 ″  E