Oldendorfer Totenstatt

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Oldendorfer Totenstatt
Chamber of the giant bed IV

Chamber of the giant bed IV

Oldendorfer Totenstatt (Lower Saxony)
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Coordinates 53 ° 8 '47 "  N , 10 ° 13' 9.9"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '47 "  N , 10 ° 13' 9.9"  E
place Oldendorf , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 683-686

The Oldendorfer Totenstatt is an ensemble of six burial mounds and megalithic systems in Oldendorf north of Amelinghausen in the Luhe Valley in the Lüneburg district in Lower Saxony . It consists of the barren beds (II, III and IV) and the round hills (II, V and VI). They are 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.

Megalithic beds I, III and IV

  • Annex I is a 45-meter-long, largely destroyed megalithic bed. It bears the Sprockhoff no. 683
  • Annex III is a remnant of the earth wall, which is 43 meters long, the border stones of which are partially present in situ or overturned. The chamber must have been in the part that no longer exists. It bears the Sprockhoff no. 685
  • Annex IV is an 80-meter-long megalithic bed, of which around 100 stones were still standing in situ, the rest of which were put up again during the restoration (a section was restored with intermediate masonry). The passage grave consists of an approximately eight meter long chamber with twelve bearing stones and a pair of passage stones . The former five capstones of the chamber and those of the corridor are missing. The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems , which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands. The location of the chamber in the giant bed is extremely terminal, and the access to the chamber is also strongly offset laterally, so that the system corresponds to the type of the so-called Holstein chamber . It bears the Sprockhoff no. 686

Appendices II, V and VI

  • Annex II is a round hill with a diameter of about 20 meters in the center of which the rest (bearing stones and the threshold stone) of a passage grave can be found. It bears the Sprockhoff no. 684
  • Appendix V and VI are Bronze Age round hills.

Digs

Within the chambers of Annex II and IV , relics of the funnel beaker culture , the spherical amphora culture and the single grave culture were found in separate layers.

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Körner / Friedrich Laux: A Kingdom on the Luhe , Lüneburg 1980
  • Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The place of the dead of Oldendorf. In: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 , pp. 29-32.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 37-38.

Individual evidence

  1. J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15

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