Great stone grave Wetterade
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 15 '49.9 " N , 10 ° 35' 47.7" E | ||
| place | Helmstorf OT Wetterade , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 209 | ||
The large stone grave Wetterade is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wetterade , a district of Helmstorf in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein . It bears the Sprockhoff number 209.
location
The grave is located about 150 m east of Wetterade in a field. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 2.7 km northeast is the large stone grave Blekendorf and 3 km south are the large stone graves near Gowens .
description
The facility has a north-east-south-west oriented mound bed with a length of 60 m and a width of about 12 m. The mound still has a height of 1 m. All the surrounding stones are missing. The burial chamber is a north-west-south-east oriented extended dolmen with a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1 m. There are still two pairs of wall stones on the long sides and the north-western end stone. The southeastern capstone and capstones are missing. According to a drawing in the local file , the south-eastern end stone was probably still preserved in the first half of the 20th century. This is where the original access to the chamber was likely to have been.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 55.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Wetterade Langbett
- strahlen.org : Big stone grave "Wetterade", Wetterade near Lütjenburg