Great stone grave devil's stones
| Great stone grave devil's stones Devil's bed, Düvel or Lehzen stones | |||
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 Devil's Stones in Lüstringen |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 15 '54.6 " N , 8 ° 6' 28" E | ||
| place | Voxtrup , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 914 | ||
The stone grave hellstones (also devil bed, Düvel- Lehzensteine or called) is a neolithisches passage grave type Emsländische chamber with the Sprockhoff no. 914. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). 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.
location
The Teufelssteine are located in the north of the Osnabrück district of Voxtrup, southwest of Darum / Gretesch / Lüstringen on a hill in a small wooded area in the angle between the Hase and the Belmer Bach . In 1853 the area of the plant was bought by the state. The area has historically been called Teufelsheide and is now located between a substation in the west, Heideweg and the Löhne – Rheine railway line in the north, an industrial area in the east and the Haseniederung in the south.
description
The well-preserved, east-west oriented chamber is located in an oval border, of which only about a dozen stones have survived. The approximately 12.9 meter long chamber has a clear width of approximately two meters. One of the six capstones and the 14 bearing stones is missing. In the middle of the southern long side, between the third and fourth bearing stone, the gap for an access can be seen .
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The complex is on the street of the megalithic culture
literature
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.) : Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments - Das Osnabrücker Land III , Vol. 44, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0313-0 .
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 32-33.
- Mamoun Fansa : large stone graves between Weser and Ems . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-118-5 , pp. 96-97.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 124.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments - Das Osnabrücker Land III , vol. 44, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, p. 30
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15
- ↑ Interactive map of Osnabrück with district boundaries, City of Osnabrück - Geodata Specialist, geo.osnabrueck.de
