Großsteingrab Glüsingen
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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The Großsteingrab Glüsingen is a megalithic burial monument of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture at Glüsingen, a district of Betzendorf, in the district of Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. It carries the Sprockhoff number 692 and is dated by typological estimate to between 3500 and 2800 BCE.
The monument lies in a boundary ditch and was probably considerably damaged when the ditch was dug.
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The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Großsteingrab Glüsingen
The grave lies south-east of Glüsingen in farm woodland adjoining the Süsing to the north, in a plot called “Im Stroße”.
SettingSources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Großsteingrab GlüsingenCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (German): Großsteingrab GlüsingenCC BY-SA 4.0
The grave lies south-east of Glüsingen in farm woodland adjoining the Süsing to the north, in a plot called “Im Stroße”. The Barnstedt megalithic tomb lies 860 m to the north-east.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Großsteingrab GlüsingenCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Großsteingrab GlüsingenCC BY-SA 4.0
No mound can now be made out. The chamber probably had an east–west orientation and a length of about seven metres. Two wall stones of the northern long side probably still stand approximately in situ, as does one wall stone of the southern long side. Three capstones survive. One leans against the northern wall stones; another lies to the east of it inside the chamber; the third lies at the western end of the chamber and was probably dragged there.
ContextSources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Großsteingrab GlüsingenCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Großsteingrab GlüsingenCC BY-SA 4.0
Across the plain from the Netherlands to Poland, the Funnel Beaker culture left thousands of megalithic tombs. Nordic megalith architecture emerged in northern Europe mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. Lower Saxony is reported to have 1,155 megalithic monuments.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Megalithic tombs of the North European Plain
Across the plain from the Netherlands to Poland, the Funnel Beaker culture left thousands of megalithic tombs. Nordic megalith architecture emerged in northern Europe mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. Counts have risen as surveys improved: Schleswig-Holstein now reports 3,212 megalithic monuments and 958 long mounds, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5,991 megaliths (against 648 in 2010), and Lower Saxony 1,155. Altogether 11,162 megaliths are known in these three regions, and with Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt the figure for northern Germany rises to 11,648. Denmark has 5,001 registered monuments, the Netherlands 101, Sweden 639 and Poland 18. Johannes Müller has suggested that originally more than 75,000 megaliths were built.
Monuments are classed by type: simple dolmens, extended dolmens, passage graves, great dolmens, unchambered long barrows and stone cists. The oldest are the simple dolmens, which appeared around 3500 BCE and are found across almost the whole area of Nordic megalith architecture. Their entrances were built to be reopened. A megalithic entrance had to seal the tomb, yet allow the community to gain access to the interior again, even after a long time, to perform rituals.
In the Netherlands the hunebedden were built between 3470 and 3250 BCE and used until about 2760 BCE; 54 of the original 100 survive, 52 of them in Drenthe. Poland has only 18 registered monuments, and the long barrows in parts of Poland were typically earthen rather than megalithic.
Dating combines radiocarbon dates from bone and pottery. The tombs were used by later cultures too, so a single tomb can hold remains from different periods.
When visiting, look at how the capstones sit on the supporting stones, how the entrance is built, and the frame of kerbstones around the mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Megaliths in the Netherlands, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 692 CE
Es trägt die Sprockhoff-Nummer 692.
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Dates
Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic tombs in Germany; this site has not been dated itself. German stone tombs (Grosssteingraber) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Germany
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 53°07′00″ N, 10°20′15″ EFor a GPS or map app: 53.11669, 10.33759
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Großsteingrab Barnstedt3500–2800 BCE- DolmenGroßsteingrab Betzendorf3500–2800 BCE
Großsteingräber bei Diersbüttel3500–2800 BCE- Megalithic tombGroßsteingrab Bornsen Bienenbüttel 13500–2800 BCE
- DolmenGroßsteingrab Amelinghausen3500–2800 BCE
Großsteingrab Sottorf 13500–2800 BCE- Megalithic tombSottorf Megalithic Tombs3500–2800 BCE
- Megalithic tombRieste 1 megalithic tomb3500–2800 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q15240766wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Großsteingrab Glüsingen p2.jpgStefan AhlswedeCC BY 4.0
- Großsteingrab Glüsingen p1.jpgStefan AhlswedeCC BY 4.0
- Großsteingrab Glüsingen p3.jpgStefan AhlswedeCC BY 4.0
- Großsteingrab Glüsingen p4.jpgStefan AhlswedeCC BY 4.0
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Großsteingrab Barnstedt0.9 km NE
- Großsteingrab Betzendorf3.5 km W
- Großsteingräber bei Diersbüttel4.8 km W
- Großsteingrab Bornsen Bienenbüttel 15.7 km E
- Großsteingrab Amelinghausen6.3 km W
- Großsteingrab Sottorf 17.3 km W
- Sottorf Megalithic Tombs7.3 km W
- Rieste 1 megalithic tomb7.9 km E
- Megalithic tombs at Rieste7.9 km E
- Oldendorfer Totenstatt8.6 km NW
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