Great stone grave Zscherben
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 20 '16.7 " N , 11 ° 57' 58.1" E | ||
| place | Merseburg OT Zscherben , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The large stone grave Zscherben was a Neolithic megalithic grave complex near Zscherben , a district of Merseburg in the Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt . The complex was excavated by a farmer around 1796 and later destroyed.
location
The grave was on a flat hill on the Vogelsberg near Zscherben.
description
According to a report by Karl Rosenkranz , the grave was found close to the ground. It was "bordered with smaller, but not bricked, but only stacked stones and covered with larger, plate-like, but only roughly worked stones." No information on size or orientation is available. The type of grave cannot be determined with certainty. Based on the information provided by Rosenkranz, Hans-Jürgen Beier suspects a sunken chamber grave or a pseudomegalithic wall chamber grave .
Apparently no more human skeletons were found in the grave. 20 ceramic vessels were found as grave goods. These were initially kept in the library of the Merseburg Cathedral School, but there were mixed up with finds from the Brandy Hill and can therefore no longer be safely separated from them. The finds from Zscherben all seem to belong to the late Neolithic Walternienburg culture . From Merseburg they first came to the Harz Museum in Wernigerode and are now in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) .
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 , p. 134.
- Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 67.
- Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche: The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1909, pp. 18, 394 ( online ).
- Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, pp. 90-93 ( online ).
- Karl Rosenkranz : From a letter from Mr. Tax Procurator Strauss zu Schneeberg, the so-called Merseburg grave and Mr. Hofraths Darow reports about it. In: New magazine for the history of the Germanic peoples. Volume 1/4, 1832, pp. 98-99 ( online ).
- without author: 3rd annual report on the negotiations of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity. Naumburg 1823, pp. 26-27.