Large stone grave in Osterwald

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The large stone grave in Osterwald was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Osterwald , a district of Garbsen in the Hanover region ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 18th or early 19th century. The grave was located near the windmill and was misinterpreted in a report from 1751 as a "sacrificial stone". The stone is said to have been "similar to the Albersdorfer", which means the large stone grave Brutkamp near Albersdorf in Schleswig-Holstein . No more detailed information is available about the orientation, dimensions and grave type of the Osterwald complex. Other stones from nearby are said to have been used to build Ricklingen Castle around 1750 . It can no longer be determined whether they came from the same grave or from other neighboring graves.

literature

  • Fine: From keeping the horns sacred to the moon, especially in the heydnian Lower Saxony. In: Hanoverian learned advertisements. 74th piece, 1751, p. 660 ( online ).
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 30 ( 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. 85.