Hünensteine I + II near Damme
| Hünensteine I + II near Damme Neuenwalde megalithic tomb I + II | |||
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 Hünensteine I |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '25.8 " N , 8 ° 9' 34.1" E | ||
| place | Damme , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 978, 979 | ||
The large stone graves Hünensteine I + II near Damme , also called Hünengrab Neuenwalde I + II , are Neolithic passage graves with the Sprockhoff nos. 978 and 979. They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And are megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).
location
The Hünensteine are located southwest of Damme , near the L846 Osnabrück - Damme on both sides of the K277 that branches off there (to Ossenbeck), in the Lower Saxony district of Vechta .
description
Hünensteine I
The very well-preserved Emsland Chamber of the Hünensteine I is oriented east-west. Its eleven bearing stones and the four cap stones are mostly in situ . The chamber length is 8.5 meters. Their clear width is three meters in the middle. At the ends it is 2.5 meters in the west and 2.0 meters in the east. A single stone on the south side probably marks the rest of the entrance. The system no longer has any edging stones. It is likely to be the de Hynnekamper Stene complex , where the Vechta office ended earlier. As such, the complex was mentioned in 1464 as the first megalithic grave ever, in "Oldenburg". In 1884 the grave was bought by the Oldenburg Regional Association for Archeology. The first official examination of the megalithic complex was carried out in 1807 by Count Münster.
Hünensteine II
The ruined large stone grave lies in a cemetery. The Emsland Chamber is sunk into the ground. You can only see a few cap and bearing stones and remnants of the hill. According to Sprockhoff, the grave was originally almost 30 meters long. Your remains are 19 meters long and about 1.6 meters wide. The capstone in the west is there, the eastern one is missing. When the cemetery was being planned, the last examination of the grave took place (1967). At that time there were five cover stones and 14 bearing stones. All remains of a corridor are missing, while two edging stones can still be proven.
See also
literature
- Mamoun Fansa : large stone graves between Weser and Ems . Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-118-5 , p. 140.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 145.
