Great stone grave Wanhöden
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 The large stone grave in Wanhöden |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 45 '31.8 " N , 8 ° 40' 41.1" E | ||
| place | Nordholz , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 605 | ||
The large stone grave Wanhöden (also called Riesenhütte ) is a grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in Wanhöden , a district of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 605.
location
The grave is located at the north-western exit of Wanhöden, about halfway between the A27 and the Cuxhaven / Nordholz sea airport, right on the edge of a dirt road.
description
The facility is in a very bad state of preservation. It has a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber 1.6 m wide and about 7 m long. Only the north-western end of it is preserved. The end stone and the two adjacent wall stones on the long sides are still in situ . A capstone rests on them. It is unclear whether an isolated stone in the southeast also belongs to the burial chamber.
An excavation took place in 1979. In this grave goods were the Beaker culture such as a flint -Beil and cross-edged arrowheads to light, but also finds like a stone bracer the subsequent use of the grave by members of the, late Neolithic Beaker Culture show (2600-2200 v. Chr.). After the excavation, an impression of the burial chamber was made and exhibited in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover .
See also
literature
- Wilhelm Blasius : Megalithic grave monuments of north-western Germany. In: 10th annual report of the Association for Natural Science in Braunschweig. 1897, p. 36.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Report on antiquities in Hanover. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities in Stade. Volume 4, 1871, pp. 358-359.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 194 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- H. Müller-Brauel: The prehistoric monuments of the district Lehe. In: Annual Report of the Men of the Morning Star. Volume 16, 1913/14 (1914), p. 119.
- 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. 3.
- Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs: The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957, plate 33.
- Friedrich Tewes : The stone graves of the province of Hanover. An introduction to your customers and the main types and forms. Hanover 1898, pp. 24-25.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, pp. 81–82.
