Flint stones

Flint stones
Large stone grave stone
Coordinates	52 ° 52 '43.1 "  N , 8 ° 19' 47.6"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '43.1 "  N , 8 ° 19' 47.6"  E
place	Visbek , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence	3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no.	977

The Schmeersteine large stone grave bears the Sprockhoff no. 977 and originated in the Neolithic between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system 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.

location

The large stone grave is located not far from the lowland stream Aue , in the forest north of Varnhorn , a farming community in the Visbek municipality , Vechta district , Lower Saxony , in the Wildeshauser Geest nature park . The Schmeerstones were bought by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in 1876 and placed under protection.

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description

The large stone grave measures 8 meters × 1.8 meters. Nine bearing stones and three cap stones have been preserved; two capstones are broken. The facility was originally located in a hill that is said to have been about 12 × 16 meters in size. Finds from the stone grave are in the State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory in Oldenburg .

In a good half a kilometer south-southwest is the large stone grave Mühlensteine .

Both plants are on the street of the megalithic culture .

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• Visbek # Large stone graves from the Neolithic Age

literature

• Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , p. 97.
• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 144.

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Schmeersteine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schmeersteine ​​- Visbek 977
• 3. Large stone graves at Steinloge, Varnhorn and Thölstedt ; therein: 15. Schmeersteine ​​Varnhorn (977)
• Navigator focused on the gemstones interactively. Official map service of the LGLN
• Megalithic graves and menhirs in Lower Saxony: "Schmeersteine" large stone grave, northwest of Thölstedt near Wildeshausen. Sprockhoff: No. 977

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier (Ed.); Working group Neolithic: Varia neolithica. Part VI: Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies: Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual conference of the North-West German Association for Antiquity Research in Schleswig, October 9-10, 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , p. 15.