Molzen large stone grave
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 Perspective view and floor plan of the tomb after von Estorff |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 1 '23.2 " N , 10 ° 36' 17.5" E | ||
| place | Uelzen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 773 | ||
The Molzen large stone grave was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Molzen , a district of Uelzen in the Uelzen district ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 19th century. The grave was documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff ; it bears the Sprockhoff no. 773.
location
The grave was located northeast of Molzen, on the east side of the road to Jastorf on the so-called Totenkamp . The megalithic stone graves near Heitbrack , which were also destroyed in the 19th century, were directly to the northwest .
There were originally several other large stone graves in the immediate vicinity: 1.8 km to the south-east were the large stone graves at Masendorf and 2.4 km to the north-northeast the large stone graves at Jastorf .
Location of the grave according to von Estorff (No. 27)
Detailed plan of the death camp according to von Estorff, the grave is at the bottom (No. 9)
description
The complex had a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber . Only the southwest end was still preserved when von Estorff took it. There were still three wall stones on the long sides, the south-western end stone and two cap stones, and further northeast some stones with an unclear function, perhaps more wall stones, fragments or reading stones . Of the two capstones, the south-western one was only half resting on the wall stones, the second had fallen completely into the interior of the chamber. On the north-western long side there is a noticeable gap between two wall stones; It can no longer be determined whether this was the original access or whether the wall stones were moved. The exact type of grave is therefore unclear. Due to the size of the chamber, however, it must have been a large dolmen or a passage grave.
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 88 ( 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. 65.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Molzen stone grave