D32d
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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Das Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 war eine megalithische Grabanlage der jungsteinzeitlichen Westgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur bei Odoorn, einem Ortsteil von Borger-Odoorn in der niederländischen Provinz Drenthe. Es wurde im frühen 19. Jahrhundert zerstört. Seine Überreste wurden 1984 archäologisch untersucht. Das Grab trägt die Van-Giffen-Nummer D32d.
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Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 was a megalithic burial monument of the Late Neolithic western group of the Funnel Beaker culture, located east of Odoorn in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands. It stood in a field between Dennenweg, Odoornerweg and Bergjesweg, among many other megalithic tombs in the area.
The monument was probably a passage grave, with a burial chamber measuring about 5,5 m in length and 1,6 m to 2 m in width. It had three pairs of wall stones along the long sides and one closing stone at each short side. By 1818 only three stones remained. It was destroyed in the early 19th century, and no remains of a stone floor pavement could be identified.
The remains were first recognized as a megalithic tomb in 1943 and documented in the 1960s by Jan Evert Musch. In 1984, an archaeological investigation was led by Jan N. Lanting. Pottery sherds allowed about 150 vessels to be reconstructed and dated the burial to 3470–3075 and 2860–2760 v. Chr. The site is also known by the Van-Giffen number D32d.
Monuments of this kind in the Netherlands are known as hunebedden. They belong to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture, whose megalithic tombs were built between 3470 and 3250 BCE and used until about 2760 BCE. The pottery find included a ceramic lid described as unique within the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 2", shown in the original language.
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D32d is a dolmen in Borger-Odoorn, Germany. Wikidata describes it as: former dolmen in Odoorn, Netherlands. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 2", shown in the original language.
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Das Grab befand sich östlich von Odoorn im Feld zwischen Dennenweg, Odoornerweg und Bergjesweg. In der näheren Umgebung gibt es zahlreiche weitere Großsteingräber. 920 m südsüdöstlich befindet sich das Großsteingrab Valthe-West (D34), 1,7 km westnordwestlich das Großsteingrab Odoorn (D32), 1,8 km südsüdöstlich das Großsteingrab Valthe-Zuidwest (D35), 2,1 km nordnordöstlich das Großsteingrab Exloo-Zuid (D31) und 2,5 km ostsüdöstlich die beiden Großsteingräber bei Valthe-Oost (D36 und D37). Auch mehrere zerstörte Gräber sind aus dieser Gegend bekannt. 900 m südsüdöstlich lag das Großsteingrab Valthe-Valtherveld (D33), 1,2 km nordnordwestlich das Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 (D32c) und 2 km westlich das Großsteingrab Odoorn-Westeres (D32a).
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Die Anlage wurde im frühen 19. Jahrhundert zerstört. 1943 wurden ihre Überreste erstmals als Großsteingrab erkannt. Eine weitere Dokumentation des Fundplatzes erfolgte in den 1960er Jahren durch Jan Evert Musch. 1984 wurden die Reste des Grabes unter Leitung von Jan N. Lanting archäologisch untersucht.
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Bei der Anlage handelte es sich vermutlich um ein Ganggrab. 1818 waren nur noch drei Steine vorhanden. Lanting konnte bei seiner Grabung feststellen, dass die Grabkammer eine Länge von etwa 5,5 m und eine Breite zwischen 1,6 m und 2 m hatte. Sie bestand aus drei Wandsteinpaaren an den Langseiten und je einem Abschlussstein an den Schmalseiten. Reste eines steinernen Bodenpflasters ließen sich nicht mehr ausmachen.
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Lanting konnte bei seiner Grabung Keramikscherben der Trichterbecherkultur bergen, aus denen sich etwa 150 Gefäße rekonstruieren ließen. Der Fund eines Keramikdeckels ist bislang einzigartig für die Westgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur. Die Keramik datiert in die Stufen 2–5 und 7 des von Anna Brindley aufgestellten typologischen Systems der Trichterbecher-Westgruppe. Dies entspricht dem Zeitraum 3470–3075 und 2860–2760 v. Chr. Scherben von Gouda-Pfeifenköpfen erlauben es, die Zerstörung des Grabes ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert zu datieren.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 2”, translated from German. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
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German and Dutch Hünengräber (hunebedden)
The megalithic tombs of northern Germany and the Netherlands were built by the Funnel Beaker culture (about 4100 to 2800 BCE), and the style, called Nordic megalith architecture, emerged between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In the Netherlands the tombs are the hunebedden, built between 3470 and 3250 BCE by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and used until about 2760 BCE. Of an estimated 100 original tombs, 54 are preserved, 52 of them in the province of Drenthe and two in Groningen. After the Funnel Beaker culture ended the sites were reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, to a lesser extent, into the Middle Ages.
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern up to 5,000 megalith tombs were erected, and more than 1,000 are preserved and protected by law; they belong to the youngest and easternmost part of the western European tradition. Most are dolmens, often lying inside a circular or trapezoid frame of standing stones. Locally they are known as Hünengräber, "giants' tombs", or Großsteingräber, "large stone tombs"; the trapezoid frame is a Hünenbett, "giants' bed", and the circular one a Bannkreis. Between 1964 and 1974 Ewald Schuldt excavated over a hundred sites there and sorted them into simple dolmens, extended dolmens, passage graves, great dolmens, unchambered long barrows and stone cists.
Folklore: the German and Dutch names, with Hüne meaning "giant", carry the old idea that giants were buried here. This is a tradition; the stones were placed by Neolithic farmers.
When visiting, look for the capstones on their supports and the frame of kerbstones around them.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megaliths in the Netherlands, Wikipedia: Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 2760 BCE
Dies entspricht dem Zeitraum 3470–3075 und 2860–2760 v. Chr.
Source - 1818
1818 waren nur noch drei Steine vorhanden.
Source - 1943
1943 wurden ihre Überreste erstmals als Großsteingrab erkannt.
Source - 1984
Seine Überreste wurden 1984 archäologisch untersucht.
Source - 1984
1984 wurden die Reste des Grabes unter Leitung von Jan N.
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Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Germany; this site has not been dated itself. German dolmens (Huengrab) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.Source for this date
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