Large stone grave Wohrenstorf
| Large stone grave Wohrenstorf Great stone grave Weitendorf-Wohrenstorf, Great stone grave Petschow | |||
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 Side view and floor plan of the grave according to Schlie |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 0 '51 " N , 12 ° 25' 14.5" E | ||
| place | Cammin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 368 | ||
The large stone grave Wohrenstorf was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wohrenstorf , a district of Cammin in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 368. The complex was probably destroyed in the early 20th century.
location
The grave was located near the southern edge of the K22 road from Weitendorf to Cammin, between the branches to Wohrenstorf and Prangendorf .
description
The facility had a slightly oval mound with a length of 15.5 m and a width of 13.8 m. It was surrounded by a stone circle, of which Friedrich Schlie was able to identify one stone in the east, two in the northwest, two in the west, one broken in the southwest and five in the south in the 1890s. The hill enclosed an east-west oriented burial chamber , which was a large dolmen . The three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and the western end stone were still in situ when Schlies examined it . The eastern capstone and capstones were missing. The chamber was 3.8 m long and 1.5 m wide.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 5.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 98 ( online ).
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 1. Schwerin 1896, p. 437 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 118.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 21.
