List of gallery graves in Hessen
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The gallery graves of Hesse
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The list of gallery graves in Hesse includes all known gallery graves in the area of the state of Hesse .
List of gallery graves
- Grave : gives the name of the grave and common alternative names
- Location : Names the community and, if applicable, the district in which the grave is located.
- District : Name the district to which the municipality belongs. FB: Wetteraukreis ; GI: District of Giessen ; HEF: District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg ; HR: Schwalm-Eder district ; KS: District of Kassel ; LM: District Limburg-Weilburg ; MR: Marburg-Biedenkopf district
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Type : differentiation between different types of graves
- Gallery grave: rectangular burial chamber sunk into the ground with access via an anteroom on one narrow side
Preserved graves
| dig | place | district | Type | Remarks | image |
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| Altendorf gallery grave | Naumburg , OT Altendorf | KS | Gallery grave (Züschen type) |
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| Gallery tomb Calden I | Calden | KS | Gallery grave (Züschen type) |
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| Gallery tomb Calden II | Calden | KS | Gallery grave (Züschen type) |
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| Gallery grave Ebsdorf | Ebsdorfergrund , OT Ebsdorf | MR | Gallery grave? | Mentioned in 1954 by Otto Uenze, not found since then, location and state of preservation unknown | |
| Gallery grave equals | Gudensberg , OT Gleichen | MR | Gallery grave? | not visible above ground, not examined | |
| Gallery grave Gudensberg ("Lautariusgrab") | Gudensberg | MR | Gallery grave (Züschen type) |
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| Gallery grave Lohra | Lohra | MR | Gallery grave (Züschen type) | ||
| Gallery grave Mensfelden | Hünstelden , OT Mensfelden | LM | Gallery grave? | Discovered in 2001, not visible above ground, not examined | |
| Gallery grave Muschenheim ("Holy Stone") | Lich , OT Muschenheim | GI | Gallery grave |
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| Gallery grave in Niedertiefenbach | Beselich , OT Niedertiefenbach | LM | Gallery grave (Züschen type) | ||
| Gallery grave Niederzeuzheim | Hadamar , OT Niederzeuzheim | LM | Gallery grave (Züschen type) | Excavations in 1911, 1913 and 1954, restoration in 2004 |
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| Great stone grave Oberzeuzheim II | Hadamar , Oberzeuzheim district | LM | Gallery grave? | artificial stone setting or natural formation | |
| Schadeck gallery grave | Runkel , OT Schadeck | LM | Gallery grave? | possible gallery grave, not visible above ground | |
| Gallery grave Züschen I (Gallery grave Lohne) | Fritzlar , OT Züschen | MR | Gallery grave (Züschen type) |
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Relocated graves
| dig | place | district | Type | Remarks | image |
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| Gallery grave Oberzeuzheim I | Hadamar , Oberzeuzheim district | LM | Gallery grave | implemented in the Westerwald Landscape Museum in Hachenburg ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) |
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Destroyed graves
| dig | place | district | Type | Remarks | image |
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| Gallery grave Gießen-Kleinlinden | to water | GI | Gallery grave? | Possible gallery grave, only documented by a perforated door stone found in 1882/83 and now lost |
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| Gallery grave Züschen II | Fritzlar , OT Züschen | MR | Gallery grave | destroyed | |
| Gallery grave Züschen III | Fritzlar , OT Züschen | MR | Gallery grave (Züschen type) | destroyed | |
| Gallery grave Züschen IV | Fritzlar , OT Züschen | MR | Gallery grave | Discovered in 1966, a geomagnetic survey of the site in 2005 yielded inconclusive results |
Erroneously listed as gallery grave
| dig | place | district | Type | Remarks | image |
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| Asbach burial mound | Bad Hersfeld , OT Asbach | HEF | Burial mound | Bronze Age grave mound, considered by Raetzel-Fabian as a possible gallery grave or non-megalithic collective grave due to Neolithic ceramic finds, but the grave architecture excludes this | |
| "Gallery grave Bad Vilbel" | Bad Vilbel | FB | Stone setting | Stone setting from the 19th century | |
| Willingshausen burial mound | Willingshausen | MR | Burial mound | Bronze Age burial mound, considered as a possible gallery grave because of the mention of two parallel rows of stones, but the information probably refers to a stone box located at the edge of the hill |
See also
literature
Complete overview
- Wolfgang Dehn, Josef Röder: Hessian stone boxes and early metal. In: Find reports from Hessen. Volume 19/20, 1980, pp. 163-176.
- Irene Kappel: Stone chamber graves and menhirs in Northern Hesse (= guide to North Hesse prehistory and early history. Volume 5). Kassel 1978.
- Dirk Raetzel-Fabian: The first farming cultures. New Stone Age in Northern Hesse (= prehistory and early history in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel. Volume 2). 2nd ed., Kassel 2000, pp. 139–148.
- Kerstin Schierhold : Studies on the Hessian-Westphalian megalithic. Research status and perspectives in a European context (= Münster contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology. Volume 6). Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89646-284-8 .
- Michael Schmidt: The old stones. Travel to the megalithic culture in Central Europe. Rostock 1998.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic grave construction of Central Germany and the gallery graves of West Germany and their inventories. Bonn 1966, ISBN 978-3-7749-0575-7 .
- Waldtraut Schrickel: Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements and the gallery graves of Western Germany. Bonn 1966.
- Winrich Schwellnus : Wartberg group and Hessian megalithic. A contribution to the late Neolithic of the Hessian mountainous region (= materials on the prehistory and early history of Hesse. Volume 4). State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden 1979.
Individual graves
- Irene Kappel: The stone chamber grave near Züschen. Monument of European importance in Northern Hesse. Leaflet for the Neolithic burial site in the suburb of Lohne, City of Fritzlar, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis (= archaeological monuments in Hesse. Volume 22). Department for Prehistory and Protohistory in the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 1981
- Manfred Menke: Megalithic grave with menhir in Muschenheim: 5000 year old findings open up revolutionary scientific knowledge. In: Mirror of Research. Volume 10, Issue 2, 1993, pp. 2-5.
- Manfred Menke: New excavations in the megalithic complex "Holy Stones" near Muschenheim (district of Gießen). Preliminary report on the excavation campaigns from 1989 to 1992. With a contribution by Monika Aichinger, Gießen. In: Germania. Volume 71 (2), 1993, pp. 279-314.
- Christoph Rinne et al .: Niedertiefenbach. A gallery grave of the late Neolithic Wartberg group southwest of Niedertiefenbach (Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse). In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Volume 91/2, 2016, pp. 284-316 ( online ).
Web links
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