Great stone grave in Wenzendorf
| Great stone grave in Wenzendorf Great stone grave Wennerstorf, Margaretenstein | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 22 '4.1 " N , 9 ° 46' 28.9" E | ||
| place | Wenzendorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 671 | ||
The Großsteingrab Wenzendorf (also known as Großsteingrab Wennerstorf or Margaretenstein ) is a grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wennerstorf , a district of the municipality of Wenzendorf in the Harburg district in Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 671.
location
The grave is north of Wennerstorf about halfway between the village and the A1 in a small forest.
description
The plant has an oval mound with a length of 16 m and a width of 11 m. There is an east-west oriented burial chamber. In its original state, it consisted of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides, two end stones on the narrow sides and five cap stones. It thus appears to be a large dolmen . The western end stone and, seen from the west, the first and third stone on the south side and the third stone on the north side are still preserved in situ . The second stone on the north side is blown into three pieces. The western capstone has slid to the north, the following capstone lies blown inside the chamber. Two more blasted stones lie at the eastern end of the burial chamber. They can no longer be clearly classified as wall or cap stones.
See also
literature
- Gerhard Körner : A burial mound investigation near Oldendorf, Harburg district. In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 10, 1936, p. 49ff.
- 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. 31.
