Grand stone grave Wingst
| Grand stone grave Wingst | |||
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 Wingst stone grave, view from the southeast |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 43 '44.2 " N , 9 ° 4' 3" E | ||
| place | Wingst , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 644 | ||
The large stone grave Wingst is a burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the community Wingst in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony . It is designated as a cultural monument (KD) and bears the Sprockhoff number 644.
Geographical location
The grave lies in the forest of the Wingst ridge , west-north-west of Dobrock and north-west of Weißenmoor - both districts of Wingst. In several other places in this forest there were earlier other large stone graves of unknown numbers.
description
The complex has an approximately west-east oriented burial chamber with a width of 1.3 m; the length cannot be determined exactly. The western end stone and, seen from the west, the first and second wall stone of the northern and the first and third wall stone of the southern long wall are still preserved in situ . The western capstone still rests in its original position. The following rests with one end on the northern wall stone, the southern end rests on the chamber floor. The eastern end of the burial chamber has not been preserved. To the southeast of the third wall stone on the south side, there is another stone that cannot be clearly assigned.
See also
literature
- A. Badenius: Prehistoric and early historical sites of the Wingst (Land Hadeln district). In: Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star. Volume 30, 1940, p. 16ff.
- Wilhelm Klenck: Local history of the former Neuhaus a. d. Oste. Pockwitz, Stade 1957, pp. 70-71.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Report on antiquities in Hanover. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities in Stade. Volume 4, 1871, p. 357.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 187 ( 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 , pp. 15-16.
- Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs: The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957, plate 20.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 83.
