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The GrandGraveGallery. 4200 pictures of prehistoric graves from Germany are presented and commented in this part of my archive. Some famous objects are described, as i.e. the Langgräber of Visbek and the Hohen Steine Wildeshausen, as well as some quite ruined large graves. Most of these graves are in Northern Germany, that is, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schleswig-Holstein and Mechlenburg-Vorpommern. Builders were ancient farmers and rancher tribes. Most of these graves have been built more than 4000 years ago. Modern construction needs reduced the number and conditions of these ressources. Profits were more important than respect to the ancestors. The new law implemented around 1900 A.C. could not stop, but only reduce these destructions. In the years before these places were respected, and in part been in use for burials. Others were avoided and many have names containing the devil's name.
In 2004 I brought 45 more objects into this collection, especially from the Emsland. Thuine, Groß Berßen are impressive examples.
In 2005 I visited the North East, which also has its megalithic graves, impressive like on the dolmen on the Bierberg near Gerbitz.
2006 I added again some pictures from Northern Hessia, Southern Lower Saxony and Eastern Westfalia. Thereby you find the southmost Dolmen of Germany in Muschenheim and the instructive reconstruction of Atteln.
2007 hasn't hat much harvest in number, but combinations with menhirs were found, in Langeneichstädt in secondary usage, and in Latdorf area on top of grave moulds.
2009 brought a lot of new stuff before my cameras. Way by Clemens-August-Dorf, the grave group at "Deymanns Mühle" up to north western Tannenhausen, seeing a tiny chamber at Friedeburg, passing the "Heidenopfertisch", and, among many other graves in the Altmark, the giants bed of Winterfeld.
The Hinkelpage with a collection of 1800 pictures from fresh menhirs. Menhirs are hard to identify in Northern Germany. Therefore most menhirs presented will be from Middle and Southern Germany. Exceptions are so called "Näpfchensteine" with manmade cup marks. In the soil beneath the Opferstein von Melzingen high phosphate values could be found. Most of these stones are interweaved with fairies and tales. Here too, many famous stones are presented as the Gollenstein. This one shows the results of the modern human erosion very badly.
New visits in 2005 were the second highest menhir of Germany, the Stone Virgin of Dölau. There aure quite a few cup mark stones, either standalone or as a cupstone of a tomb.
Common to these monuments is, that it is hard to imagine, how the "primitive" people could manage to move these big rocks to build these dolmens and chambers, where this is possible today only through machine power.
Since 2005 I can show you the secondmost high menhir of Germany: The Stone Virgin von Dölau!. Altogether, I collected quite a lot photographs in Eastern Germany. New for me was the thing about the nailings in some stones. And I was impressed by some cup stones.
2006 I added some Pfälzer menhirs and westfalian erratic blocks. Also, I took a lot of beautiful pictures on the Externsteine.
2007 I returned with some pictures of menhirs and sacrificial stones in Middle Hessian. Also it is worth now take a second look to Walhausen! "Gute Nachricht" is from Neu-Mehring as the menhir is restored.
2008 I was on the Ankumer Höhe, visited the Pfaohlenstein, south of Bremen the Buckled dress maker of Ristedt, and in the Altmark area, in Bonese the Lehnekestein.
2009 I biked to Mecklenburg again and very impressive appeared the Schälchenstein von Zislow and the Cromlech of Lenzen. Nearby is the Cromlech of Bellin which takes destructions up to now. For foresters, the tracks that pass through the stone circle, need to be broader to let the trucks of today pass. Although some touristic attraction is advertised, thos is countercaricated by woodpicker business interests. Finally, I could take some fotographs of the Bibelistein in Offenburg this year.
New 2009! MegaSpeciaLithics is the new part, where I want to give some lights onto the surroundings of the main topic of megaliths. For one part, here I collected some things that were shown in the Hinkelpage earlier but do not directly belong to neolithicum. And secondly, I assembled some tours though existing material, using from different view points (cups, nails). But also later generations had stone in their view when they wanted to make something eternal. I show such things in the chapter Monuments. And there is a chapter showing famous places like the Externsteine. And the panorama has peripherals and outlooks.
The Site has now a common data structure. The "camp" pages now allow to sort for zip code, location and place name for the listing. Also, a new department was created: "MegaSpeciaLithics", to hold side topics as well as reordered structures to cover the topics of nail stones or cup stones. I also show a list of my favorite megaliths, and also plan for an automated "most wanted" list.
Another highlight for this release is the variable picture size! Just click on the picture to change the size!
Finally 2009, I sorted many of the pictures, dropped some and added the fresh menhirs along with many newly translated comments.
Please take a look at my literature list. A short list but with comments, in German only (sorry).
Have fun surfin' German megaliths!
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