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Lancken-Granitz Steingrab 1
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lancken-Granitz Steingrab 1 submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Apr 2006. Also known as Sprockhoff 501. Chambered tomb with 6 uprights, 2 smaller endstones and 2 capstones, of which one has slipped into the chamber. NW-SE orientation. 20 Meter Altitude.
Part of a series of 7 chambered tombs within very close proximity.
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Lancken-Granitz Steingrab 3
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lancken-Granitz Steingrab 3 submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Apr 2006. Also known as Sprockhoff 503. Dolmen with 6 uprights, 2 endstones, but only 1 capstone within the remains of the tumulus. SE-NW orientation. 20 Meter Altitude.
Part of a series of 7 chambered tombs within very close proximity.
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Lancken-Granitz Steingrab 4
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lancken-Granitz Steingrab 4 submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Apr 2006. Also known as Sprockhoff 504. Chambered tomb within 32 meter long stone perimeter enclosure. There are 9 uprights and 1 enstone, as well as 2 capstones. SE-NW orientation. 23 Meter Altitude.
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Preetz-Burtewitz Steingrab 2
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Visited: Would like to visit
Preetz-Burtewitz Steingrab 2 submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Apr 2006. Also known as Sprockhoff 506.
6 uprights but no capstones. Studied by the Schwerin University in 1970 and restored during this occasion. Many small artifacts found during excavation.
NW - SE orientation.
19 Meters altitude.
One of 7 tombs in close proximity.
Island of Rügen.
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Belm Steine 1
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Belm Steine 1 submitted by AlexHunger on 22nd Dec 2005. Series of stones that could either be glacial erratics buldozed from the field or a nearly destroyed chambered tomb.
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Gnewitz Steingrab 2
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gnewitz Steingrab 2 submitted by stollentroll on 21st Dec 2005. chambered tomb Gnewitz (2)
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Thelkow Dolmen
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Visited: Would like to visit
Thelkow submitted by stollentroll on 20th Dec 2005. chambered tomb Thelkow
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Steinfeld Steingrab 2
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Steinfeld Steingrab 2 submitted by AlexHunger on 1st May 2006. This relatively compact Alee Couverte consists of 8 uprights while 2 out of 3 cap stones survive. A fragment of the 3rd lies just beside the tomb. Archeologists presume the former tumulus was surrounded by kerbstones.
The site has been restored since Sprockhoff's survey in the 1930s.
North South Orientation.
61 Meters Altitude
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Ahlhorner Kellersteine West
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ahlhorner Kellersteine West submitted by Martin_L on 12th Jan 2010. Site viewed from the NNW. Capstones visible in this picture:
No. 1 (counting from West) is blown into 1 large and 2 small fragments (the latter not visible in this picture) an partly collapsed into the chamber.
No. 2: is one of the largest capstones in this area, measuring approximately 4,1m x 2,6m x 1,8m. It is still resting on its orthostats, but not in situ. April 2008
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Ahlhorner Kellersteine Ost
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ahlhorner Kellersteine Ost submitted by Martin_L on 19th Jan 2009. Looking towards east (April 2008).
The westernmost capstone is missing, the central capstone is blown into 2 pieces. Trapezoid chamber, partly filled with earth. Clear size 6m x 2,5m-2m.
Reference: Sprockhoff/Schwieger in Sprockhoff E., Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands - Niedersachsen-Westfalen, p. 133
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Sprakeler Heide Steingrab
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Sprakeler Heide Steingrab submitted by Martin_L on 21st May 2009. The chamber viewed from the West. Capstone of the passage on the right. (March 2009)
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Börgerwald Grosssteingrab
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Börgerwald Grosssteingrab submitted by stollentroll on 31st May 2006. modern stone construction Börgerwald
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Garen Steingrab 'Am Hohen Stein'
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Garen Steingrab 'Am Hohen Stein' submitted by RunaStera on 20th Jun 2005. Hunebed #963 in the County of Cloppenburg (CLP) "Der Hohe Stein" in an arrangement of two hunebeds called "Garener Steine". The chamber is extensivly destroyed but the building beams with joy.
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Clemens-August-Dorfer Hünengrab 1
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Clemens-August-Dorfer Hünengrab 1 submitted by stollentroll on 18th Nov 2005. Chambered tomb Clemens-August-Dorf 1
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Huesby Dolmen
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg)
Visited: Would like to visit
Huesby Dolmen submitted by holger_rix on 27th Nov 2007. The Dolmen of Huesby has been excavated from a Round Barrow not far from the village.
The barrow has been used by several generations, and was surrounded by 3 rings of stones.
The capstone is not original. The original has been brought to the museum of Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig.
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Hemmingstedt Ganggrab
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hemmingstedt Ganggrab submitted by holger_rix on 28th Jul 2008. The Passage Grave of Hemmingstedt,
originally located north of the town,
in an area called 'Op de Hell'; the hell.
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Calden (1)
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Germany (Hesse)
Visited: Would like to visit
Calden (1) submitted by stollentroll on 3rd May 2006. the "reconstructed" chambered tomb Calden (1)
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Burgstall Oppidum
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Visited: Would like to visit
Burgstall Oppidum submitted by AlexHunger on 18th Jun 2006. 1st and 2nd Century BCE Celtic Hillfort of about 1.2 Square Kilometer surface area.
This section of about 5 Meter thick wall has been restored together with the wooden pilars that help suport it.
The local community has set up a hiking circuit with information signs at regular distances.
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Ipf Höhensiedlung
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ipf Höhensiedlung submitted by majoky on 20th Mar 2010. The walls and ditches around the Ipf are well preserved and clearly visible
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Nordsteimke Dolmengrab
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Would like to visit
Nordsteimke Dolmengrab submitted by AlexHunger on 22nd Aug 2005. Nordsteimke Dolmengrab Front view.
Smallish 1.5 Meters by 1.9 Meters menhir with with unusually rounded cap stone, surounded by 6 boulder sized uprights and surounded by large vestigial tumulus. The Dolmen was discovered in 1972 and restored in 1975. The plaque says the dolmen dates to 2000 BCE, though this seems a little late for this type of monument. To the side of the parking lot in front of the Sports complex. Close to Wolfsburg, home of the VW Beetle.
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