Denghoog

The Denghoog, located north of the chapel of Westerland on Sylt, is a megalithic grave, was named after one of the Neolithic period, the Denghoog level. The walk of the megalithic passage grave type, which is below a 3.20 meter high hill, dates from the transition to the 4th millennium BC The hill was examined in 1868 by the Hamburg geologists F. weevil. Since the 1930s, visitors can visit the best preserved passage grave of Schleswig-Holstein.

The egg-shaped chamber measuring five meters in east-west and about three feet in the wide area of ​​north-south direction. Their height is about 1.90 meters to the west and 1.50 meters on the east side. The chamber consists of erratic boulders ( erratics ) of the ice age weighing up to 18,000 kilograms. It is twelve supporting stones, three capstones and twelve curbs and two door stone in the passage. The gaps between the support and the transitional stones are filled with sheets of red sandstone. It came originally with a six meter long and one meter high and wide, paved passage in the chamber today, the access is for visitors from above. The transition has a ( located in the middle) and therefore unusually placed door frame construction. In the eastern half of the chamber is separated by a double row of upended plates a quarter. Here was located on the carefully laid paving a fire pit.

It was found in the grave chamber remains of an unburnt body, a bovine tooth, vessels, shards, axes, flat and hollow chisel and six amber beads. The original findings are in Gottorp Castle in Schleswig. Copies can be found in Sylt local museum, in Westerland. The name is Denghoog Sylt Frisian ( Sölring ), meaning hill Thing ( Deng: Thing; Hoog: hill ). Therefore, it is also possible that the plant was used by the people as a place of execution.

In " Atlas of megalithic Germany " by Ernst Sprockhoff the passage grave is listed as " Sprockhoff 4".