Hünenbett near Horndorf
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 13 '18.5 " N , 10 ° 36' 14.9" E | ||
| place | Reinstorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 696, 697 | ||
The giant beds near Horndorf are located in a forest 13 kilometers east of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony in the middle of a dozen medium-sized, unexplored burial mounds . They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC in the Neolithic as megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.
The remains of the four differently oriented giant beds have lengths between 20 and 35 meters. In the three roughly north-south orientated a few stones of the border have survived. The roughly west-east oriented fourth with the Sprockhoff no. 697 has no curbs and is only recognizable as a flat mound of earth. Only in the southernmost system with the Sprockhoff no. 696 there are still signs of a destroyed chamber. In its southern part there is a stone plate next to a pit. Whether it is in the other megalithic tombs to chamberless acts or hunebeds are hidden if the chambers still in the earth dam, only an investigation can determine.
See also
literature
- Hery A. Lauer: Archaeological Walks Ostniedersachsen Lauer, Angerstein 1979, ISBN 3-924538-00-X , p. 78.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 41.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.); Working group Neolithic: Varia neolithica. Part VI: Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies: Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual conference of the North-West German Association for Antiquity Research in Schleswig, October 9-10, 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , p. 15.