Great stone grave Retzow (Rechlin)
| Great stone grave Retzow (Rechlin) | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 18 '50 " N , 12 ° 46' 4.3" E | ||
| place | Rechlin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 449 | ||
The Retzow large stone grave is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Retzow , a district of Rechlin in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 449.
location
The grave is located about 200 m south-east of the memorial site of the former Retzow satellite camp and 100 m north of federal highway 192 . It is fenced in in a group of trees and can be reached via a path.
description
The complex has a heavily destroyed, probably northeast-southwest oriented burial chamber , the type of which can no longer be determined. Four stones are still preserved, probably two wall stones and two cap stones. A wall stone still appears to be in situ . Ernst Sprockhoff assumed with some caution that the chamber originally consisted of two yokes.
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. 29.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 97 ( online ).
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5. Schwerin 1902, p. 597 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 135.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 49.