Great stone grave Thüritz
The Thüritz large stone grave was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic deep-engraving ceramic culture near Thüritz , a district of Kalbe (Milde) in the Altmark district of Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The grave was destroyed in the 19th century.
location
The grave was located about 3 km east of Winterfeld bei Thüritz in a parcel called "Thüritzer Gehren".
Research history
The facility was first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the great stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that the grave had since been completely removed in the course of the separation .
description
The grave was apparently already badly damaged when Danneil was taken. A stone enclosure could no longer be determined. The burial chamber was probably oriented east-west. More precise information is not available, so it is no longer possible to determine the type of grave.
A stone pack that enclosed a small urn is a special finding . Although this was crushed, its shape could clearly be reconstructed. It was 15.6 cm high and was apparently undecorated. It was half filled with bones. It should have been a reburial from the Middle or Late Bronze Age .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 58.
- Johann Friedrich Danneil: General report on excavations in the area around Salzwedel. In: Karl Eduard Förstemann (ed.): New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research. Volume 2. Halle 1836, p. 561 ( online ).
- Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 177 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).