Steinbeck stone grave
| Steinbeck stone grave Hünenschloss | |||
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 Steinbeck stone grave |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 20 '37.2 " N , 9 ° 51' 0.6" E | ||
| place | Buchholz in the Nordheide , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 674 | ||
The megalithic grave Steinbeck (also known as giant castle called) is a megalithic grave complex of Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture in Steinbeck , in the municipality of Buchholz in der Nordheide in the district of Harburg ( Lower Saxony ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 674.
location
The grave is located directly in Steinbeck, west of federal highway 75 and south of Wenzendorfer Straße.
description
C. Einfeld provided a detailed description of the grave in 1855, based on a report by the Wittmann court brewery from 1813. The facility was largely destroyed when Napoleon I had Bremer Strasse (today's B 75) expanded into a Chaussee . According to the report, the grave had a north-west-south-east oriented mound bed with a length of 70 m and a width of 5.4 m. There were still 34 stones left of the enclosure, which was less than a quarter of the original stock. The burial chamber was 11 m from one end of the megalithic bed. It had a length of 10.5 m, a width of 2.4 m and a height of 1.75 m and was a so-called Emsland Chamber . It had 15 wall stones and four cap stones. Of the latter, three still existed in 1813. The floor of the chamber was made of pebbles. Finds from the chamber were flint daggers and knives as well as broken pottery.
Only a modest remnant remains of this exceptionally large facility. Ernst Sprockhoff was only able to find three surrounding stones on the southwest long side and the western corner stone on the northwest narrow side in situ when he was photographed in 1967 . Another in situ stone is built into the corner of a house. Three more stones are no longer in their original position, one is split.
Others
According to a legend that has been documented since the 18th century, the Hünenschloss is said to be "the tomb of Arminius ".
See also
literature
- Th. Benecke: The so-called Hünenschloß in Steinbeck near Harburg. In: Lower Saxony. Volume 16, 1910/11, p. 295.
- Th Benecke: Erratic boulders and prehistoric graves in the Harburg district. In: Between Elbe, Seeve and Este. A home book of the Harburg district. Volume 1 Elkan, Harburg 1921, p. 401
- C. Einfeld: The stone monument in Steinbeck, Moisburg district. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1855 (1857), p. 368ff.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 156 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 32.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : Collectanea etymologica . Nicolaus Foerster, Hanover 1717, p. 51 . Digitized at Google Books.
- ↑ Heinrich Karstens (Ed.): Sea - Marsch - Heide (= Low German sagas . Volume 1 ). Schlütersche Buchdruckerei - Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1963, p. 80 (first published in 1926).
- ^ Willi Wegewitz : Harburg home. The landscape around Hamburg-Harburg (= Hamburg home books ). Publishing house of the Society of Friends of the Fatherland School and Education System e. V., Hamburg 1950, p. 164 .
