Great stone grave Reddigau

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The large stone grave Reddigau was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic deep-engraving ceramic culture near Reddigau, a district of the community of Diesdorf in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The grave was destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The grave was located south of Reddigau near the border with Bergmoor on the Schwarzenberg. Not far from there are the fools' sources .

Research history

The facility was first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the great stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that the grave had since been completely removed in the course of the separation .

description

The grave had a stone enclosure with a length of 12 m and a width of 4.7 m. When Danneil took it, it was still in a relatively good state of preservation; only the guard stones at the corners of the enclosure, another enclosure stone and a cap stone were missing. Despite these good results, Danneil did not provide a detailed description of the burial chamber , so that it is no longer possible to determine the type of grave .

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. 58.
  • 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, No. 27 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 56 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).