Great stone grave in Wessenstedt

The large stone grave Wessenstedt was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wessenstedt , a district of Natendorf in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 19th century. The grave was west of the place. It was documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff , but not described in detail. No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave. The card signature only shows that it had a rectangular barren bed .

literature

• Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of ​​Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 85 ( 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. 76.