Great stone grave in Wittenbergen
| Great stone grave in Wittenbergen Sacrificial stone, giant grave | |||
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 Drawing of the tomb of de Vries (1838) |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 11 '59.9 " N , 9 ° 27' 51" E | ||
| place | Hamdorf OT Wittenbergen , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 161 | ||
The Wittenbergen large stone grave (also known as the sacrificial stone or giant grave ) was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wittenbergen , a district of Hamdorf in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . The grave bears the Sprockhoff number 161. It was described by JJ de Vries in 1838 and probably destroyed in the later course of the 19th century.
location
The exact location of the grave is unknown. According to de Vries, it was "near Wittenbergen [...] down on the foreland of the Eider , which forms a fairly swampy meadow here." According to Sprockhoff, it was probably one of the hills that is on a map from 1878/79 west of Wittenbergen is drawn.
description
The plant had a pile of mounds. In the grave chamber there was a likely ENE-WSW oriented passage grave with an oval floor plan and a corridor on the southern long side. In 1838 the chamber was no longer completely preserved. De Vries wrote of ten stones that formed an oval. His drawing here includes the gangway stones, so that only eight wall stones of the chamber that were still preserved at the time can be assumed. One of the presumably two capstones was still preserved. This had a length of 7.75 Hamburg feet (about 2.2 m), a width of 4.5 feet (about 1.3 m) and a thickness of 2.5 feet (about 0.7 m) .
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 44.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Wittenbergen stone grave