Large stone graves near Kahlstorf
| Large stone graves near Kahlstorf | |||
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 The large stone grave Kahlstorf 1 |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 56 '6.7 " N , 10 ° 41' 21.8" E | ||
| place | Wrestedt , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 801-804 | ||
The large stone graves near Kahlstorf were four graves of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) near the district of Kahlstorf in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the Wrestedt municipality . Only two of them still exist today. These bear the Sprockhoff numbers 801 and 802. The other two systems were destroyed in the late 19th century. They are numbered 803 and 804.
location
Grave 1 is located 500 m north of Kahlstorf in a field. About 500 meters southwest of the village is the partially destroyed stone chamber 2 (Sprockhoff no. 802) in a group of bushes in the arable land. Graves 3 and 4 were located south of this and about one kilometer west of the Groß Pretzier district of Wrestedter.
description
Preserved graves
Grave 1
The chamber, which is an aisle grave, is still enclosed by the earth dam of the slightly trapezoidal, north-south oriented long bed. Only the upper areas of four capstones protrude from the ground, the northern one seems to have been carried away a bit. The border is 26 m long. Its width is 7 m in the north and 5 m in the south. At 35 she still has almost all the curbs. Although its southern closure is disturbed, it still makes a relatively complete impression.
Around 1840 the chamberlain Georg Otto Carl von Estorff visited the large stone grave and discovered "the lower leg bone of a skeleton, which was a little exposed". The excavation he initiated brought to light six skeletons with additions, which were medieval graves. Curt Schwantes designated them as Slavic burials in 1909, compared with a nearby burial ground. Around 3500 years after its completion, the megalithic bed was used again as a burial place. There are no findings about the original Stone Age burials.
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber, which according to Ernst Sprockhoff is probably a large dolmen . It has a length of 5.5 m and a width of 2 m. In its original state, it had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. Only the four wall stones on the south-east and three on the north-west long side are in situ . The north-eastern capstone has fallen outwards, the opposite has been dragged a little to the southwest. The four capstones fell into the interior of the chamber.
Destroyed graves
Grave 3
Grave 3 had a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber that was already damaged by von Estorff when it was taken. It had a length of about 10 m and a width of about 3 m. In its original state, it should have had six or seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides. Von Estorff gives the southwestern part of the chamber as disturbed. Some stones were carried away, others were missing. The north-eastern end seems to be a bit inaccurate in the drawing, as it gives the impression of three end stones. In fact, it should have been just a terminal stone and the adjacent pair of wall stones on the long sides. Only three of the capstones were left when von Estorff took it. They lay fallen in the northeast part of the chamber.
Grave 4
Grave 4 also had a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber. It was 9 m long and 1.5 m wide. Von Estorff only gave the south-western end stone and three wall stones of the south-eastern long side standing in situ. In addition, there were six cap stones and probably three displaced or dragged wall stones on the southeast side. At least one capstone was already missing. It is not clear from the drawing whether the remaining wall stones have already been removed or were still covered by soil.
See also
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
- August Freudenthal : Heidefahrten. Volume IV: Excursions to the Wurster Heide, the Uelzen region and the Heidhehehe in the Teufelsmoor. Heinsius, Bremen 1897, p. 116ff.
- Hans Gummel : In: Mannus. Supplementary volume V, 1927, p. 30ff.
- Karl Hermann Jacob : The megalithic graves of the district of Ülzen and the protection of the prehistoric monuments. In: News sheet for Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, p. 29ff.
- Hery A. Lauer: Archaeological Walks Ostniedersachsen Verlag Hery A. Lauer, Angerstein 1979, ISBN 3-924538-00-X , p. 115.
- Curt Schwantes: Slavic skeleton graves near Rassau, Hanover province. In: Prehistoric Journal. Volume 1, 1909, pp. 387ff.
- 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. 73.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 15.
