Great stone grave Wulfen

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Great stone grave Wulfen
Great stone grave Wulfen

Great stone grave Wulfen
Large stone grave in Wulfen (Saxony-Anhalt)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 51 ° 49 '5.4 "  N , 11 ° 55' 42.6"  E
place Osterienburger Land , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

The Großsteingrab Wulfen (also Großsteingrab Hoher Berg ) is a Neolithic stone grave on the "Hohen Berg" in Wulfen , a current part of the municipality of Osternienburger Land in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district ( Saxony-Anhalt ). It dates back to the Walternienburg-Bernburg culture .

description

Originally there were two large stone graves in Wulfen, but one of them was destroyed in 1883. The preserved complex belongs to the type of passage graves . It consists of eight wall and three cap stones. The length of the grave is 3.60 m. On the south side there is an access to the burial chamber. The grave was discovered and opened in 1784. The finds made in the process are now in the Koethen Museum and testify to the long-term use of the tomb. These include flint artifacts and pottery of the Neolithic Walternienburg-Bernburg Culture (3200-2800 v. Chr.), House and face-pots from the early Iron Age (800-450 v. Chr.) And body burials of the Migration Period Niemberger group (4.- 5th century AD). During follow-up examinations in 1912 a cup from the Bernburg culture was found.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific articles 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, ISSN  0440-1298 , pp. 111-112.
  • Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest . Beier and Beran, Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 66 ( Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1, ZDB -ID 916540-x ), (At the same time: Halle, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1991: Die megalithischen, submegalithischen and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs in the five new East German federal states (formerly GDR) ).
  • Ulrich Fischer : The Stone Age graves in the Saale region. Studies on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave and burial forms in Saxony-Thuringia (= prehistoric research. Volume 15). De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, pp. 86-87, 94, 96, 275.
  • Walter Götze: Prehistoric graves in the district of Cöthen (= contributions to the history of Anhalt. Volume 20) Köthen 1913, pp. 16-17.
  • Paul Höfer : The Pohlsberg near Latdorf, district of Bernburg. In: Annual publication for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries. Volume 4, 1905, p. 96, note 1 ( online ).
  • Martin Jahn : The first excavation of the megalithic grave of Wulfen in Anhalt. In: Mannus . Vol. 17, 1925, pp. 110-111.
  • Gerhard Mildenberger : Studies on the Central German Neolithic (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Volume 2). 1953, p. 46.
  • Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, p. 53ff ( online ).
  • Robert Schulze: The Younger Stone Age in the Köthener Land. In: Anhaltische Geschichtsblätter. Volume 5, 1930, pp. 79ff.
  • Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , pp. 67-68.
  • HT Stiller: Description of several pagan graves found near Calbe on the Saale. In: MCDF Lehmann: Contributions to the investigation of the antiquities from some pagan remains found at Welbsleben etc. Halle 1789, p. 92ff.
  • Rudolf Virchow : Grave finds of the most recent Neolithic period from Cujawien, the provinces of Posen and Saxony. In: Negotiations of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. 1883, p. 444 ( online ).
  • Rudolf Virchow: Excursions to Belzig and Dessau. In: Negotiations of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. 1894, p. 328 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Wulfen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schulze-Thulin, pp. 67-68