Kläden 6 Chambered Tomb View all content for Kläden 6

Kläden 6 is a grand dolmen consisting of eight pairs of supporting stones and a trapezoidal enclosure. The current state of preservation is moderate, at least one capstone is missing, the others are partially cracked and partially sunken, many enclosing and wall stones have fallen or are missing. The enclosure is south-north orientated. It is quite short in comparison to the remarkable large burial chamber, 18 m long outside and between 7.5 m in the south and 8.2 m in the north. Nineteen of formerly perhaps twenty-six surrounding stones are still present. The chamber is also south-north orientated and lies in the middle of the enclosure. Twenty wall stones and six of formerly seven capstones are preserved. The chamber measures 11 m x 1.5 m (south) - 2.6 m (north). On the east side of the complex, roughly in the middle of the tomb, lies a broken, inscribed sandstone slab. Like the grave of Bülitz, it is a board of the canon of Levetzow, who bought the tomb to preserve it. The slab was to be used around 1950 for the construction of an Ernst Thälmann monument. But when they wanted to lift the slab from the grave, it broke into two pieces and then left the two pieces there. Drive from Steinfeld to Kläden, in Kläden turn right towards Grassau. After about 2 kilometers there is a wind turbine on the right side of the road. There you can park the car. The tomb is then on the other side of the road, about 60 meters away, in a larger and dense bush group. Shortly before my visit, the strong plant growth around the grave must have been cut back, otherwise it seems to be heavily overgrown. Visited April 2019

Posted by Nucleus 2nd May 2019ce Edited 2nd May 2019ce

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