Hohensteine (Wanhöden)
| Hohensteine (Wanhöden) | |||
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 Great stone grave Hohensteine |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 43 '47.4 " N , 8 ° 40' 31.8" E | ||
| place | Wanhöden , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 607 | ||
The Hohensteine near Wanhöden ( Sprockhoff no. 607) (also called Midlum 2) are one of several megalithic systems with this name in northern Germany .
location
The Hohensteine are located in the Hohensteinsforst , in Krempel , southwest of Wanhöden (municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast ) in the district of Cuxhaven in the Elbe-Weser triangle in Lower Saxony .
description
The passage grave had four capstones. Three mighty capstones are still in place , one of the two in the middle lies broken in the chamber. Four bearing stones per side and two end stones formed the walls of the chamber, one of the bearing stones on the southeast side is missing.
The top of the middle capstones carries a few bowls . It is not possible to tell whether there was a stone corridor or whether it was a portal (possibly with a wooden corridor construction).
The forest still harbors a number of scattered barrows and two other stone graves. In the northern part of the Hohenstein forest is the "Henkenstein" (Sprockhoff No. 606), the sizable remnant of a stone chamber, of which only the final part has been preserved.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- Henkenstein stone grave
- Great stone graves in northeast Lower Saxony
- Great stone grave Wanhöden
literature
- H. Schirnig (Ed.): Great stone graves in Lower Saxony . 1979
- 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. 3.