Steenaben
| Steenaben Stone oven | |||
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.jpg) Large stone grave stone oven |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 39 '59.3 " N , 9 ° 5' 8.6" E | ||
| place | Lamstedt , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The Steenaben megalithic facility , also known as the stone furnace , is located in the municipality of Lamstedt in the Cuxhaven district in Lower Saxony . It is a well-preserved passage grave with the somewhat rarer trapezoidal floor plan.
location
The passage grave is located in a clearing in the forest of the Westerberg north of Lamstedt. It is located within the nature reserve Westerberg and upper Hackemühlen Bachtal .
description
Of the original four capstones in the chamber, three have been preserved. On eight bearing stones and one end stone on the broad end side (the other one is missing) there are still three huge cap stones. The fourth lies broken in the southeastern chamber area. Clearly recognizable is an inward inclination of the bearing stones, the approximately four meter long chamber. Although this is common for chambers with a yoke , with this ceiling, which was built as a three-point support for each cover stone, it is statically overdetermined. A gap in the middle of the southwest long side marks the entrance .
The “Steenaben”, which is in ruins despite its monumentality, has been in this state since the 19th century. Apart from a pavement in the chamber, there are no known finds.
See also
literature
- Hery A. Lauer : Archaeological walks II. District of Cuxhaven. Hery A. Lauer Verlag, Angerstein 1979, ISBN 3-922541-08-9 , p. 100
- 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. 16.
