Great stone grave in Silvitz

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Great stone grave in Silvitz
The large stone grave in Silvitz

The large stone grave in Silvitz
Great stone grave in Silvitz (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 54 ° 23 '54.3 "  N , 13 ° 29' 46.8"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '54.3 "  N , 13 ° 29' 46.8"  E
place Bergen on Ruegen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 484
Drawing of the grave from 1896 (after Hugo Schumann)
Depiction of the grave on a postcard from 1899

The large stone grave Silvitz is a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) in the area of ​​Silvitz, a district of the city of Bergen auf Rügen in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 484.

location

The grave is located northwest of Silvitz in the middle of a row of trees that separates two fields.

description

When the grave was photographed in the 1840s, Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten found a largely intact burial chamber and the remainder of a mound. He found all six bearing stones (two each on the long and one on the narrow sides) in situ . All three capstones were still in their original position and individual stone slabs could still be made out between them. The dry masonry between the supporting stones was no longer preserved. When Ernst Sprockhoff documented it again in 1931, the grave almost gave the impression it still makes today. Sprockhoff could no longer see any hill filling. The chamber belongs to the large dolmen type and is oriented northeast-southwest. It has a length of about 4.0 m and a width of 2.5 m. All stones are still there, but the middle wall stone on the south-east side slopes inward and the north-east capstone has fallen into the chamber. The southwest capstone is the largest. It has a length of about 3.0 m, a width of 1.5 m and a thickness of 1.2 m. The south-western end stone takes up only half of the narrow side and marks the entrance to the chamber.

See also

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.
  • Friedrich von Hagenow : Special chart of the island of Rügen. Designed according to the latest measurements using all existing land maps. Lithographic Institute of the General Staff, Berlin 1829.
  • Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : The Silvitzer Hünengrab. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 14, 1850, pp. 126-127 ( PDF ).
  • Walter Petzsch: Rügen's barrows and the oldest cultures on the island. 3rd edition, Bergen 1938.
  • Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972.
  • Hugo Schumann: The culture of Pomerania in prehistoric times. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 46, 1896, pp. 103-208 ( PDF ).
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : The Nordic Megalithic Culture (= manual of the prehistory of Germany. Volume 3). De Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, p. 28.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 67.

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Silvitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. P. 67.
  2. ↑ The Megalithic Portal: Silvitz Steingrab
  3. ^ Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten: The Silvitzer Hünengrab. Pp. 126-127.