Great stone grave Prödel

The Prödel large stone grave was a megalithic Neolithic burial site near Prödel , a district of Gommern in the Jerichower Land district , Saxony-Anhalt . The grave was probably destroyed in the 18th century.

location

The exact location of the grave is unknown.

Research history

The facility was first documented by Justus Christianus Thorschmidt , pastor in Plötzky near Gommern at the beginning of the 18th century . Joachim Gottwalt Abel , who was pastor in Möckern between 1755 and 1806, took over his information . At that time the grave was already gone. Abel only left handwritten notes on his research, which were published by Ernst Herms in 1928 .

description

According to Thorschmidt, the grave had a "stone circle" surrounding a hill. Despite this name, it was probably a rectangular barren bed, as Thorschmidt also called other structures "stone circles" that were clearly not round in shape, such as the Vehlitz 1 grave . Since no burial chamber is mentioned, it should have been a chamberless giant bed .

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. 63.
• Ernst Herms: The megalithic graves of the district of Jerichow I. In: Festschrift of the Magdeburg Museum for Natural and Local History for the 10th Conference on Prehistory. Magdeburg 1928, p. 245.
• Justus Christianus Thorschmidt: Plocensium pastor: Antiquitates Plocenses et Adjunctarum Prezzin et Elbenau. Leipzig 1725.