Large stone grave sticks
| Large stone grave sticks Devil's bed, large stone grave at Giebichenstein | |||
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 The devil's bed at Stöckse's |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 37 '59 " N , 9 ° 18' 54.6" E | ||
| place | Stöckse, Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500-2800 B.C. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 813 | ||
The Stöckse large stone grave , also known as the devil's bed , is an incompletely preserved large stone grave in Stöckse , municipality of Steimbke east of Nienburg / Weser in Lower Saxony . It is located a little east of the Giebichenstein (about 100 m). It was built as a megalithic complex between 3500 and 2800 BC. In the Neolithic by the bearers of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). The presumed passage grave bears the Sprockhoff no. 813. “Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development ”. The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems, which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands.
description
All capstones are missing, but eleven partially broken lateral bearing stones (five on the west and six on the east) are in the typical, slightly inwardly inclined position. The south end is closed by a large stone slab, the north end is destroyed. The at least two missing bearing stones were replaced by three new stones. The chamber is about nine meters long and three meters wide. Some stones show traces of processing; This is particularly easy to recognize from the middle stones on the eastern long side. Small consoles indicate where pieces of stone had been blasted off vertically. Weak grooves show the partly artificial finishing.
At the very engravings of 1867, the cover stones of the missing passage grave . They were probably smashed around 1780 and used to build the courier road Hanover-London. The chamber, which had been ransacked and disturbed in several places, was examined by Walter Nowothnig in 1967 . He was able to secure a number of findings from different epochs. Inside the chamber, the rainwater dripping from the capstones had left discolorations that made it possible to determine the number of capstones with five and their widths between 2.30 to 2.50 m and their length as 3.1 to 3.5 m.
Finds
In the chamber there were also remnants of two floor pavements, one on top of the other, separated by a layer of sand. The upper paving was made of granite slabs , the lower, older one of pebbles . At various points of the chamber to shards of a Neolithic vessel and two found hatchets from flint . Only a few bones remained from the burials. There were no traces of a stone entrance to the chamber in the middle of the east side, as known from other large stone graves. Immediately in front of the entrance, a large area of fire was discovered and various irregular stone packings and collections of stones were scattered around it. A fragment of a flint ax that had been exposed to strong fire was found in a fire. In the stone packings, there were shattered vessels that came from the Bronze Age . Above the threshold stone of the access was a layer of rubble dating back to the Bronze Age, from which it can be concluded that actions were also carried out in the chamber.
During the excavation of the disturbed north end of the chamber, there were indications that it was visited in the 9th century AD. In the northern part of the interior of the chamber there was a dark area that contained charcoal, a few remains of bones and ceramic fragments from the 9th century AD.
literature
- E. Cosack, Walter Nowothnig : The archaeological hiking trail on the Giebichenstein . Hildesheim 1979.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller : Pre-Christian antiquities in the state of Hanover. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony. 1867, pp. 360-362 ( online ).
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 10 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Walter Nowothnig: Investigations on the Giebichenstein and the large stone grave in the Krähe state forest near Stöckse, Nienburg district (Weser). In: New excavations and research in Lower Saxony. Volume 4, 1969, pp. 37-47.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 84-85.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 91 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15
