List of large stone graves in Thuringia

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List of large stone graves in Thuringia (Thuringia)
Kalbsrieth
Kalbsrieth
Gotha
Gotha
The large stone graves of Thuringia (red: preserved graves; gray: destroyed graves)

The list of large stone graves in Thuringia includes all known large stone graves in what is now the state of Thuringia .

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. GTH: Gotha (district-free city); KYF: Kyffhäuserkreis
  • Type : differentiation between different types of graves
    • Urdolmen : small square or rectangular burial chamber with four wall stones and a cap stone, with or without access
    • Recessed chamber grave : rectangular burial chamber sunk into the ground, dating back to Western European gallery graves, with access via an anteroom on one narrow side
    • Wall chamber grave : mostly sunken non-megalithic burial chamber with walls made of dry stone

Preserved graves

dig place district Type Remarks image
Large stone grave Kalbsrieth a Kalbsrieth KYF Urdolmen located in the same hill as the destroyed Urdolmen Kalbsrieth b; Excavation 1901 Derfflinger Hills

Destroyed graves

dig place district Type Remarks image
Great stone grave Kalbsrieth b Kalbsrieth KYF Urdolmen located in the same hill as the preserved Urdolmen Kalbsrieth a; Excavation 1901 Derfflinger Hills
Great stone grave in Gotha Gotha GTH Recessed chamber grave or wall chamber grave examined and destroyed in 1928; Finds recovered; had strong references to the Hessian megalithic in the floor plan and in the grave inventory

See also

literature

Complete overview

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Halle (Saale) 1984.
  • Hans-Jürgen Beier: The spherical amphora culture in the Middle Elbe-Saale area and in the Altmark. Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-326-00339-9 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991.
  • Ulrich Fischer : The Stone Age graves in the Saale region. Studies on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave and burial forms in Saxony-Thuringia (= prehistoric research. Volume 15). De Gruyter, Berlin 1956.
  • Armin Möller : Derfflinger Hügel near Kalbsrieth (Grand Duchy of Saxony): a Thuringian necropolis from the Unstruttal used from the Stone Age to the introduction of Christianity (= commemorative publication for the 43rd general meeting of the German Anthropological Society August 4-8, 1912 in Weimar. Booklet 3). Fischer, Jena 1912 ( online ).
  • 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.