List of large stone graves in Rhineland-Palatinate

Bonerath

Kruft

Mayen

Schankweiler

Hachenburg (from Oberzeuzheim)

Heimbach

The large stone graves in Rhineland-Palatinate (red: preserved graves; yellow: relocated graves; gray: destroyed graves)

The list of large stone graves in Rhineland-Palatinate includes all known large stone graves in the area of what is now the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

List of 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. BIT: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm ; MYK: Mayen-Koblenz district ; NR: District of Neuwied ; TR: Trier-Saarburg district ; WW: Westerwaldkreis
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
Great stone grave Bonerath ("Three Murderers")	Bonerath	TR
Great stone grave Kruft	Kruft	MYK
Great stone grave Mayen 1	Mayen	MYK	unknown	Discovered during road works
Schankweiler stone grave	Schankweiler	BIT	Gallery grave

Relocated graves

dig	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Gallery grave Oberzeuzheim I	Hachenburg	WW	Gallery grave	originally from Hadamar - Oberzeuzheim ( Hesse ), transferred to the Westerwald Landscape Museum

Destroyed graves

dig	place	district	Type	Remarks
Large stone grave Heimbach	Neuwied , Heimbach-Weis district	NO	Gallery grave
Great stone grave Mayen 2	Mayen	MYK	unknown	Discovered during road works
Great stone grave Mayen 3	Mayen	MYK	unknown	Discovered during road works

literature

Axel von Berg : Extraordinary burial place in the Rhineland: a Neolithic stone box grave from the Kruft district, Mayen-Koblenz district. In: Archeology in Germany. Volume 4/1991, pp. 52-53.
Axel von Berg: A Neolithic stone box grave near Kruft, Kr.Mayen-Koblenz. In: Claus Dobiat (Ed.): Festschrift for Otto-Herman Frey on his 65th birthday (= Marburg studies on prehistory and early history. Volume 16). Hitzeroth, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-89398-159-4 , pp. 53-68.
Axel von Berg, Hans-Helmut Wegner : excavations and finds. In: Reports on archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle. Volume 3, 1992, pp. 390-391
Dirk Raetzel-Fabian : Calden. Earthworks and burial places of the early Neolithic. Architecture - ritual - chronology. With contributions by Gerd Nottbohm, Kerstin Pasda, Gesine Weber and Jaco Weinstock (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Volume 70). Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3774930228 , pp. 209, 231.
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 , pp. 307-308.
Reinhard Schindler : The stone box grave of Schankweiler. In: Finds and excavations in the Trier district. No. 1, 1969, pp. 6-8 ( online ).
Reinhard Schindler: Stone box with a soul hole and an Iron Age settlement in Schankweiler, Krs. Bitburg. In: Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas. Volume 30, 1967, pp. 41-61.
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.

Web links

Commons : Great stone graves in Rhineland-Palatinate - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on Hünengrab Drei Murderers in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 17, 2016.
^ Entry on the collective grave of the Neolithic Age (Schankweiler) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 17, 2016.

[1] Entry on Hünengrab Drei Murderers in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 17, 2016.

[2] Entry on the collective grave of the Neolithic Age (Schankweiler) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 17, 2016.