Polygonaldolmen

The Polygonaldolmen is an optically particularly appealing architecture and is therefore often depicted as the prototype of the dolmens. He comes to the north of the Danish island of Zealand, in the Swedish province of Bohuslän and on the Cimbrian peninsula eg Troldkirken in ( Jutland ) particularly often. In Schleswig -Holstein, he has 11 copies. In Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania ( Polygonaldolmen of Lexow ) and Saxony- Anhalt ( megalithic tombs at Lüdelsen ) they are represented only sporadically. Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered as indicator of social development.

Five to nine carrying stones forming the polygonal chamber floor plan. A single sometimes very large capstone is on. A front-mounted transmission may be mandatory, but often do not receive. In Dithmar the rectangle and Polygonaldolmen of Albers village are a focus. The Brutkamp is one of the most impressive facilities of the type. Typological considered dominates the chamber of Hemmelmark, Rendsburg- Eckernförde out with the unusual size of 2.8 × 2.25 m and the separation of a cantonment by upstanding plates. Polygonaldolmen are less common in hunebeds ( Schülldorf, Rendsburg- Eckernförde ) and more frequently in round hills in front. (eg Dannewerk, Eckernförde, Haßmoor and Süderende ).

Originally, it was by Ekkehard Aner and John Brøndsted out due to the approximately circular construction of a western origin of this type. These views are from the comprehensive study of Ewald Schuldt in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, that highlights the autochthonous origin of the different types, refuted.

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