Stone box in the Uelzen city forest
The stone box in the Uelzen city forest in Lower Saxony was probably moved to its current location in 1848 with the help of Baron Georg Otto Carl von Estorff (1811–1877). Originally it was on the route of the neighboring Uelzen - Lüneburg railway line .
Stone boxes were erected during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the entire area of distribution of Nordic megalithic architecture and beyond, initially only in certain areas, later also supra-regionally in areas where building material - usually boulders - was available.
Stone boxes made of sheet material were sunk into the natural ground or placed in stabilizing mounds, as their building material does not have a large static. At the Uelzener Kiste six stones, apparently split for this purpose, were placed in a rectangular pit. A capstone closed the box. The capstone has probably been visible since prehistoric times and was broken at some point in history. One half is missing; Nothing is known about their whereabouts or that of the finds. The Uelzen capstone is the only one in a German stone box into which bowls have been incorporated. Cup stones are a Europe-wide phenomenon of the Bronze Age and can also be found several times in the vicinity (e.g. in Drethem , Haaßel or at the large stone grave of Lehmke). It is believed that the bowls were used for cultic acts.
The stone box in the Uelzen city forest is possibly one of the less common boxes of the cultures with corded ceramics , which in the past were also referred to as single grave or battle ax cultures. The culture belongs to the end of the Neolithic. This stone box is in the tradition of the great stone graves. However, the erect culture went over to cremation. Ten such boxes are known in the Uelzen basin. These include the examined boxes containing corpse burns and ceramic cups, flint axes and other stone utensils from:
- Broken peat
- Holthusen II
- Lehmke
- Molten
- Forgot
See also
literature
- Stadtverwaltung Uelzen, Flyer Experience the city forest on stalking trails - with this location map .
- Heinz Schirnig : Shell stones from the area of the Elbe Side Canal in the Uelzen district . In: Material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony 3, 1970, ISSN 0465-2770 , p. 27.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 58.5 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 41.9 ″ E