Lautarius grave (Gudensberg)

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Lautarius tomb
Lautarius grave near Gudensberg

Lautarius grave near Gudensberg
Lautarius grave (Gudensberg) (Hesse)
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Coordinates 51 ° 12 '33.8 "  N , 9 ° 21' 9.4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '33.8 "  N , 9 ° 21' 9.4"  E
place Gudensberg , Hessen , Germany
Emergence 3500-3000 BC Chr

The Lautarius grave of Gudensberg , also the grave of Gudensberg , is a prehistoric cultural monument from the Neolithic Wartberg culture in the city forest of Gudensberg in northern Hesse . The origin of the name is unclear.

Archaeological site

The prehistoric complex - in the Möhrchen in the Gudensberg city forest - consists of an above-ground burial chamber with two open antechambers. The grave complex is unique in northern Hesse because of its shape and the purely above-ground construction. Other parts of the Wartberg culture are the gallery graves of Züschen and Calden, some of which were sunk into a slight slope or covered with a hill. The tomb has a rectangular floor plan, with a length of 10 m and a width of 5 m. It was probably covered with wood . The stones used are made of quartzite and basalt . The floor of the tomb was paved.

Wartberg culture settlements are less than a kilometer away on the Gudensberger Bürgel and Güntersberg.

Archaeological finds

In 1932 the grave of Gero von Merhart , Otto Uenze and W. Kersten was uncovered and examined by the Hessian Land Office for Cultural Monuments . Only a few skeletal remains in the form of bone fragments , a few fragments of cups and two stone axes made of slate were found. This small number of finds is explained by the above-ground construction and the rapid deterioration after ritual use. It makes dating difficult, but it can be assumed that the tomb dates from around 3500-3000 BC. BC. The finds are now kept in the Hessian State Museum in Kassel .

In the west there is a barrow from around 1300 BC. Chr.

See also

literature

  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 120, 151.
  • Albrecht Jockenhövel : Gudensberg, megalithic grave. In: Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann / Albrecht Jockenhövel: The prehistory of Hesse . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 393.
  • Irene Kappel: Stone chamber tombs and menhirs in Northern Hesse (= Guide to North Hessian Prehistory and Early History. Volume 5). Kassel 1978, p. 40.
  • Jörg Lindenthal: Cultural Discoveries. Archaeological monuments in Hessen. Jenior, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-934377-73-4 , p. 93.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements and the gallery graves of Western Germany. Bonn 1966, p. 433.
  • Otto Uenze: The menhirs. In: Prehistory of North Hesse. The first farmers. Marburg 1956, p. 103.

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