Great stone grave Nesenitz
| Great stone grave Nesenitz | |||
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 The large stone grave in Nesenitz |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 38 '34.6 " N , 11 ° 8' 6.3" E | ||
| place | Klötze , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3700 to 3350 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Nesenitz is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic deep engraving ceramic culture near the village of Nesenitz in the Altmark in Saxony-Anhalt, which belongs to the town of Klötze .
location
The large stone grave is located about 1.2 kilometers east of Nesenitz on a small slope facing northwest. The road from Nesenitz to Klötze leads directly south of the facility.
Research history
The grave was first described by Johann Friedrich Danneil in 1843 . In the 1890s, Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack carried out a new survey of the great stone graves of the Altmark. In 2003-04, all remaining large stone graves in the Altmark were recorded and measured as a joint project of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt , the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum in Salzwedel and the association “Young Archaeologists of the Altmark”.
description
The relatively poorly preserved grave is likely to be seen as a large dolmen with an enclosure. The burial mound is irregularly rounded and reaches a height of one meter. Five wall stones and two cap stones are still preserved from the grave chamber, which faces west-east. The largest capstone is 2 meters long, 1.3 meters wide and 0.7 meters thick. The chamber itself is at least 4 meters long and 1.9 meters wide. The originally existing grave border is no longer preserved, so that the size and orientation on site can no longer be traced. Johann Friedrich Danneil , who examined the facility in 1843, gave the external dimensions of the then still existing megalithic bed, 7.5 m long and 3.3 m wide.
The western capstone has three bowls with a diameter of five centimeters and a depth of up to one centimeter.
history
The tomb was built between 3500 and 3000 BC. As with many other large stone graves in the Altmark and other regions, the facility was damaged in modern times in order to extract building material and remove obstacles to farming. Of the original over 200 large stone graves in the Altmark, only 48 have been preserved. In the 1990s, a stonemason company from Lower Saxony tried to illegally steal a capstone from the Nesenitz large stone grave using a crane. Confronted by a citizen, the crane operator fled. This prevented further destruction of the facility. The case has been prosecuted.
See also
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. 52.
- Wilhelm Blasius : Guide to the megalithic grave monuments in the western part of the Salzwedel district. In: Thirty-first annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. Issue 2, 1904, p. 113 ( PDF; 8.1 MB ).
- Hartmut Bock , Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Great stone graves of the Altmark . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-939414-03-4 , pp. 136–137.
- Johann Friedrich Danneil : Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark . In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry . 1843, p. 115 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
- Hans-Ulrich Kelch: Mysterious pans. In: Hartmut Bock (Ed.): Cities - Villages - Friedhöfe. Archeology in the Altmark 2: From the High Middle Ages to the modern age (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas, Volume 8). Oschersleben 2002, ISBN 3-935358-36-9 , pp. 458-469.
- Eduard Krause , Otto Schoetensack : The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany . I .: Altmark . In: Journal of Ethnology . Vol. 25, 1893, p. 159 / no. 167, Plates VI / 167, VII / 167 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , p. 49.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Nesenitz stone grave
- grosssteingraeber.de: The Nesenitz large stone grave near Salzwedel
- tw.strahl.org: "Nesenitz" stone grave , Nesenitz near Klötze, south of Salzwedel, Altmark
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