Wittfeitzen large stone grave
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 1 '41.2 " N , 10 ° 55' 40.2" E | ||
| place | Waddeweitz , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 728 | ||
The Wittfeitzen large stone grave is a burial site of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Groß Wittfeitzen in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony, which belongs to the municipality of Waddeweitz . It bears the Sprockhoff number 728.
location
The grave is located 2 km northwest of Groß Wittfeitzen and 1.2 km north of Gohlau in a forest. The Gohlau 1 large stone grave is located 600 m to the southwest .
description
The complex has a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber with a length of about 5 m. Only the south-western end stone and the three adjoining wall stones on the south-eastern long side are preserved in situ . Several other relocated stones, some of which are covered by soil, can no longer be clearly assigned.
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 128 ( 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. 51.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 12.