Big beds from Wietzetze
| Big beds from Wietzetze | |||
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 Great stone grave Wietzetze 1 |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 '23.1 " N , 10 ° 56' 32.7" E | ||
| place | Wietzetze , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 724.725 | ||
The Wietzetze giant beds are located near Wietzetze , a district of the town of Hitzacker (Elbe) in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony . They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And are megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).
location
The barren beds are located south of the road 231 from Wietzetze towards Meudelfitz. After about a kilometer, a dirt road leads south towards Tollendorf to the Hünnenbett.
description
Hune bed 1
The northwest-southeast oriented, relatively well-preserved, 50-meter-long Hünenbett 1 with the Sprockhoff no. 724 is probably a Neolithic passage grave .
The megalithic bed 1 is excavated in some places, but most of it is framed by the edging stones. The chamber is near the northwest end of the bed and is mostly hidden in the ground. Ernst Sprockhoff assumes that all the bearing stones of the chamber are still there and that there were previously four cap stones.
Giant bed 2
Follow the dirt road to Hünenbett 2, which crosses a railway embankment. Follow the embankment about 300 meters to the left. The facility is located about two kilometers northwest of the district of Hitzacker-Harlingen and borders the railway embankment immediately to the north.
The giant bed with the Sprockhoff no. 725 has a trapezoidal floor plan with a length of 45 meters and a width of seven by five meters. The long sides of the enclosure are largely intact, the stones on the narrow sides have overturned. One of these stones was used in the construction of the war memorial in Wietzetze in 1924. The chamber lies in the southern half of the enclosure and is partially destroyed. It still has a few bearing stones and three cap stones. Part of it is still hidden in the mound. Ernst Sprockhoff assumed a passage grave with five capstones.
See also
literature
- B.-R. Goetze: The megalithic graves of Wietzetze. In: Hannoversches Wendland. No. 500, 1992, pp. 176-178.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 50-51.