Göhlitzsch stone chamber
The stone chamber of Göhlitzsch , Merseburg-Querfurt district was discovered during a rabbit hunt in 1750 and was later assigned to the Neolithic Salzmünder culture or the Bernburg culture (3600-2700 BC). Göhlitzsch is a suburb of Leuna in Saxony-Anhalt .
The stone box is 2.19 m long and 1.25 m wide and high. The chamber, which consists of four sandstone slabs , which are decorated on the inside, was located in a burial mound. It was covered with three blocks. The decoration consists of area-wide ornaments subdivided into fields (especially nested angles, fir branch motifs and horizontal and vertical zigzag patterns ) and detailed representational color representations. These include a quiver with arrows, a recurve bow and a so-called battle ax. All sides have a serrated frieze at the top. A clay pot and a stone ax found in it are considered lost.
In addition to the Anderlingen stone box , it is one of the most distinctive systems in Germany with petroglyphs . The stone chamber is in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale) .
More petroglyphs in Saxony-Anhalt
Stone chambers
- Dölauer Heide, Halle district 1952; Stone chamber in the mound made of a total of 11 panels (without capstone), 7 of which are partially or completely decorated,
- Nietleben / Passendorf district of Halle, urban district Halle 1826; Nazi-oriented trapezoidal stone chamber in the mound, assigned to the Walternienburg-Bernburg culture ; made of 12 plates, 2 of which are ornamented,
- Schkopau, Merseburg-Querfurt district 1854; Nazi-oriented trapezoidal stone chamber in the mound, assigned to the Salzmünder / Bernburg culture; from 10 plates, a wall stone with signs,
Menhirs or parts of graves
- Dingelstedt, district of Halberstadt 1925; Stone packing, cover plate decorated on it, Aunjetitz culture (burial ground),
- Gleina, Burgenland District 1926; Stone packing over graves of the Aunjetitz culture in the mound, in it a small plate with incisions,
- Hornburg, district of Mansfelder Land 1933; probably to a stone packing grave with Nazi orientation, possibly corded ceramics , location unknown (capstone?), trapezoidal stone with numerous incisions,
- Obereichstädt I, district of Langeneichstädt, district Merseburg-Querfurt 1903 or before; Stone box with a burial and vessel, a wall stone with incisions,
- Obereichstädt II, district of Langeneichstädt, district of Merseburg-Querfurt 1987; OW-facing stone chamber of the Salzmünder / Bernburg culture, at the edge in (older) burial mound, menhir with dolmen goddess as capstone, further menhir in the entrance area of the chamber. 14C date (cal.) 2910-2610 BC. Chr.,
- Pfützthal, Saalkreis 1939; Cairn grave in NS direction, on grave mid Embellished by lying down menhir , probably young Bronze Age
- Schafstädt, Merseburg-Querfurt district 1962; OW-oriented stone box made of corded ceramics, decorated menhir statue of pointed trapezoidal shape built upside down in a longitudinal wall,
- Free-standing menhir from Seehausen, Bordekreis district. At today's location since 1816, previously at Wulweshoch or Wolfshöhe.
See also
literature
- Moritz Ehrenreich Hoppenhaupt : Detailed description of an old Heydnian grave, which was discovered on April 18, 1750 in the Merseburg Abbey and Office, on the road to Weißenfels, three quarters of an hour from the town of Merseburg in a hill on Göhlzscher Fluhr. Merseburg 1750 (= Moritz Ehrenreich Hoppenhaupt, edited and edited by Dieter Kaufmann and Waldemar Matthias : Detailed description of an old Heydnian grave. Facsimile print for the centenary of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1984).
- Harald Meller (Ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. 120 finds from 120 years of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition from December 11, 2001 to April 28, 2002 in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. State Office for Archeology, etc., Halle 2001, ISBN 3-910010-64-4 .
- Detlef W. Wüller : Petroglyphs from Middle Neolithic graves of Saxony-Anhalt. In: Karl W. Beinhauer, Gabriel Cooney, Christian E. Guksch, Susan Kus, Karin von Welck (eds.): Studies on megalithics. State of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. = The megalithic phenomenon. Recent research and ethnoarchaeological approaches (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 21). Beier and Beran, Weissbach 1999, ISBN 3-930036-36-3 , pp. 199-214.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Volume 5). VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, pp. 91–96.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '22.4 " N , 12 ° 2' 0.1" E