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Map of the "Seven Stone Houses "

The seven stone houses, even seven stone houses, are a group of five large stone graves in the NATO military training area of Bergen- Hohne in the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. You have the Sprockhoff numbers 806 to 810 in 1923 Asked protected cultural monument is the end time of the Funnel Beaker culture attributed ( 3500-2800 BC).

Location

The seven stone houses are located approximately in the middle of the training area mountains between Bad Fallingbostel in the north-west and mountains to the east.

The megalithic tombs are between about 56 m above sea level. Sea level and 67 m above sea level. NN. Passing the graves group flows in a north-south direction of the "Hohe Bach", which is a tributary of the northeastern Meiße in the catchment area of the Aller.

Accessibility

The only public access to the tombs begins on a post with turnpike in East wood, about four kilometers southeast of the highway triangle Walsrode. The access road passes through several kilometers restricted area of the training area. It is free for the visitors of regular ammunition residues. They are accessible only to exercise free days on weekends and public holidays in from 08:00 until 18:00 clock. Another possibility is during the statffindenden in autumn every year "people cycling ." Here, large parts of the square are released. In the immediate vicinity of the megalithic tombs a rest and refreshment station is always created.

History

The grave plant seven stone houses was built in the 3rd millennium BC in the era of Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture of sedentary farmers. The large grave Appendix D shows similarities with French grave sites, the other four graves are similar to those of the Elbe- Weser Triangle. The first written mention was made in 1720 by the archaeologist and travel writer Johann Georg Keyssler. The home of writer, journalist, editor and magazine founder August Freudenthal made ​​with his travel reports that the seven stone houses were generally known. Before the training area was created, the tombs from the Neolithic period were a popular hiking destination. The then Fallingbosteler Rollmaus Heinrich von Quintus - Icilius reached the protecting this investment.

Although we speak of the traditional "seven stone houses ", but in reality it is only at five. Since a picture from 1744 shows only five graves, one is assumed today that the "magic number " seven must be understood in a figurative sense for a larger number, such as in bits and pieces.

Description

The chamber long sides of the five graves are all almost centimeter aligned in a northeasterly direction. Your deck stones are not launched as yokes, but almost always in three- and four-point conditions. All joints between the bricks were sealed with dry masonry. Small remnants of it are still visible today. The floors of the chambers were created from sand and granite cast and served to drainage.

All tombs were originally covered by earthen mounds. Over time, the eroded soil, so that the stones visible. Four tombs have been excavated and restored in 1924-1937. Around the middle of the 19th century there was a large pine afforestation in the area. In 1958, the graves were surrounded with several meter high earthen walls. They protect the grave sites before grenade strikes, since the facility is located in the middle of the training area. However, the original connection of the plant with the landscape was lost.

• The seven stone houses

Appendix B

Annex C

Annex D

Annex E

Attachment A

Appendix A consists of four supporting stones on the long sides and a capstone on both narrow sides. On the sidestones rest three capstones, of which the middle one, much narrower broken. The clear width of the chamber measures 6.5 x 2 meters. Centered on the south side is the entrance, of which only the supporting stone pair is obtained.

Appendix B

Also at the Appendix B form four supporting stones the long sides, to which, however, in contrast to Appendix A includes four capstones. One is very narrow and therefore interposed as a Jochstein. The inside diameter of the chamber is 7 x 2.2 meters. From the hallway in the middle only is the southern supporting stone.

Annex C

The relatively short chamber of the system C consists of three supporting stones on the southeast and four on the north west side and the two keystones and the three capstones. Before the restoration there were only the northeastern three-point support, the middle one of the three supporting stones of the south-eastern long side and the south-western corner stone in situ. Two slates were probably collapsed after manipulation of the supporting stones by weight. The inside diameter of the chamber is 5 x 2 m. The off-center access seems to have been held between the first and central support in the south of the south-eastern long side. The system collapsed in December 2013, and should be rebuilt.

Annex D with Mount

The system D is the oldest grave the whole group. The supporting stones of the short, nearly square chamber consist of a plate on the southwest side, and two on the other sides. The chamber is covered by a huge slab that measures 4.6 x 4.2 meters and has a thickness of half a meter. The clear width of the squat chamber is about 4 x 3 meters. In the middle of the south side is the entrance, whose support stones are original while her capstone has been added.

Part of a formerly rectangular enclosure attached to this system. It is a preserved barrow whose surround was restored. She is about 7 meters wide and 14 meters long, but breaks off abruptly in the southwest. Since there were no prior signs of distant stones here, one suspects that this probably planned for a further 3 to 4 m parts of the plant may already have been used in the Neolithic period to the construction of another tomb.

Annex E

The long sides of the Annex E exist as in Appendix A of four carriers on which are three capstones. The supporting stone of the south-western narrow side has been added. From the fact that two capstones of the chamber ( the south-western and the middle ) halves of the same boulder, is not necessarily to conclude that the stone was split artificially archaic. The restoration work you put the shifted slightly Decksteine ​​again. The chamber has an internal diameter of 5.6 x 2 meters. From the entrance in the middle of the south-eastern long side, which consisted of two yokes, the two outer support stones are still present.

Exhibition of the finds

The finds are exhibited in the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover.

The saga of the seven stone houses

" According to a legend, which is told much in the Heidmark, the largest stone of the Giant Borg is in a, Slenken ' ( spin ) of Penalty things where he Orskarrn in the ' lay, hurled the seven stone houses. The two largest stones supporting the largest tomb were set by the giants in those pockets ' of his coat. So the giant over Fallingbostel went to the stone graves. Since the area was very sandy, the giant soon had his shoes full of sand. Which he poured at Fallingbostel, and so Tut and vineyard have been created. "