Großsteingrab Großrolübbe
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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Overview
The Großsteingrab Großrolübbe is a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture at Großrolübbe in the Plön district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is catalogued as Sprockhoff number 217 and is dated by typological estimate to between 3500 and 2800 BCE.
The monument was severely damaged in 1952/53. A further archaeological investigation in 1955 produced only a few results.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Großsteingrab Großrolübbe
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The tomb lies north-west of Großrolübbe in a field. The tombs at Flehm are 2.9 km to the south-west.
The heavily destroyed monument has a Hünenbett oriented north-west to south-east and about 20 m long.
DescriptionSources for this section
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The heavily destroyed monument has a Hünenbett oriented north-west to south-east and about 20 m long. At its south-eastern end lies the burial chamber, which is a dolmen. Only two wall stones and two capstones are preserved, and the original appearance of the chamber could not be reconstructed even by excavation.
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The only finds from the chamber were two flint knives.
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Monuments of this kind belong to the Funnel Beaker culture, which left thousands of megalithic tombs across the plain from the Netherlands to Poland. Nordic megalith architecture emerged in northern Europe mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE.
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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What the evidence supports
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
- 54°14′40″ N, 10°40′34″ EFor a GPS or map app: 54.24440, 10.67618
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Großsteingrab Flehm 13500–2800 BCE
Großsteingräber bei Hansühn3500–2800 BCE- MegalithGroßsteingrab Neu-Testorf II3500–2500 BCE
- MegalithGroßsteingrab Neu-Testorf I3500–2500 BCE
Großsteingräber bei Neutestorf3500–2800 BCE- Megalithic tombGroßsteingräber bei Kaköhl3500–2800 BCE
- Megalithic tombGroßsteingräber bei Gowens3500–2800 BCE
- Megalithic tombGroßsteingrab Testorf3500–2800 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q65048517wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Großsteingrab Flehm 13.4 km W
- Großsteingräber bei Hansühn4.7 km E
- Großsteingrab Neu-Testorf II4.7 km E
- Großsteingrab Neu-Testorf I4.7 km E
- Großsteingräber bei Neutestorf4.7 km E
- Großsteingräber bei Kaköhl4.9 km NE
- Großsteingräber bei Gowens4.9 km W
- Großsteingrab Testorf5.5 km E
- Großsteingrab Meischenstorf7.9 km E
- Ganggrab von Wangels-Meischenstorf7.9 km E
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