Oldendorfer Hünensteine
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 Oldendorfer Hünensteine |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 47 '6.3 " N , 7 ° 49' 57.3" E | ||
| place | Lastrup , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 968 | ||
The Oldendorfer Hünensteine are a heavily disturbed Neolithic large stone grave of the passage grave type with the Sprockhoff no. 968. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.
The Hünensteine are located in a forest clearing between a parking lot on the B 213 and the Hünensteine road, west of the Lastrup district of Oldendorf, southwest of Lastrup , in the Cloppenburg district in Lower Saxony .
These are the remains of an Emsland chamber measuring 10.7 × 2.2 meters with an oval border, of which ten stones have survived. 21 stones have been preserved from the chamber. The slightly asymmetrical hill is just under two meters high, 30 meters long and ten meters wide.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The complex is on the street of the megalithic culture .
literature
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 79-80.
- Heinz Knöll : The north-west German deep engraving ceramics and their position in the north and central European Neolithic (= publications of the antiquity commission in the Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional and Folklore. 3, ZDB -ID 565975-9 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1959.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 141.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15