Great stone grave in Neuenkirchen

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Great stone grave in Neuenkirchen
Great stone grave in Neuenkirchen (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 53 ° 36 '6.3 "  N , 11 ° 0' 4.2"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '6.3 "  N , 11 ° 0' 4.2"  E
place Zarrentin am Schaalsee , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 400

The large stone grave Neuenkirchen was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Neuenkirchen , a district of Zarrentin am Schaalsee in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was measured by Ernst Sprockhoff in 1935 for his atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany and bears the Sprockhoff number 400. The grave was destroyed in the following year.

location

The grave was located 250 m east of Neuenkirchen and 50 m south of the road to Groß Salitz .

description

The plant had a north-east-south-west oriented mound bed with a length of 8 m and a width of 6 m. In Sprockhoff's investigation, nine of the originally 18 stones were still preserved. The two middle stones on the long sides were still in situ . The burial chamber was also oriented northeast-southwest; it was an enlarged dolmen . It had two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a closing stone on the northeast and a smaller stone on the opposite side, which only took up half of the narrow side and thus left an entrance free. The cap stones were missing. The chamber was 2.5 m long and 1 m wide.

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. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 18.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 127.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : The Nordic megalithic culture (= manual of the prehistory of Germany. Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, p. 26.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 34.

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