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Futterkamp 4 is heavily damaged. It is almost completely covered by bushes and therefore difficult to access. Its length can no longer be precisely determined. Only a few scattered stones from the enclosure remain on the south-eastern long side. Only from the south-western long side is it currently possible to reach a small section into the bushes and see the remains of the chamber.

Visited October 2024

Futterkamp 3 (Sprockhoff #206) aka Ruserberg LA6 lies parallel to ‘Futterkamp 2’, so it is also orientated roughly north-east-south-west. The slightly trapezoidal barrow bed is 56 metres long. The width narrows from 5 metres in the north-east to 3.5 metres in the south-west. A large number of the stones are still preserved, but some have been tipped over or blown apart. There is no evidence of a chamber.

Visited October 2024

Futterkamp 2 (Sprockhoff #204) aka Ruserberg LA4 is located immediately to the south-west of Futterkamp 1. It is also orientated roughly north-east to south-west. The enclosure measures 56 x 6 metres. A large number of the stones are still preserved, although some have been tipped over. A chamber is not visible.

Visited October 2024

Futterkamp 1 (Sprockhoff #203) aka Ruserberg LA5 is a 27 x 6 metre long barrow oriented in a north-east-south-west direction. The enclosure stones are largely intact and there are two burial chambers in it. All the supporting stones from the north-eastern chamber are still preserved. Each long side has two supporting stones, one longer and one shorter, with the unequal stones always facing each other. The north-western narrow side has a keystone, while the south-eastern side is only half closed by a narrow stone. Another half-height stone marks the entrance. The chamber measures 2 x 1 metre. The south-western chamber has three supporting stones on the south-western long side and two on the north-eastern side. The keystone in the north-west is also present.

Visited October 2024

The megalithic tombs are signposted from the B202 road. Approx. 200 metres from the B202 you come to a crossroads. Stay on the Fuhlensee road and continue straight ahead. After 600 metres, the road forks and you turn left. The path leads slightly uphill and after approx. 350 metres a field path on the left leads to the graves on the Rusenberg.

Parking is possible here.

Visited October 2024

Taken from the on-site information board:

Community of Blekendorf

- Long Barrows “Ruserberg” -

Burial sites from the later Stone Age; built around 2700 -8500 BC. Of originally at least nine sites, these three long barrows lying close together with lengths between 30m and 60m have been preserved and are now listed as historical monuments, as is one tomb each north-east and south-west (not marked).

The largest ‘giant bed’ was surrounded by over 100 stones. Two burial chambers are visible in the small site, whose capstones are missing today.

The first peasant population of Schleswig- HoIstein practised agriculture and cattle breeding and built these graves, which belong to the so-called funnel beaker culture. They buried their dead in the stone chambers of the long barrows. The burial objects for the deceased ceramic vessels, amber beads and stone implements were common.

Gramtitz 1 (aka Starrvitz) is a trapezoidal long barrow oriented roughly east-west. The mound has a length of 40 metres and tapers towards the east. Only a few stones are visible from enclosure, others are obviously missing, some more may still be hidden in the mound. In the western part of the mound there is probably still the completely preserved chamber, which lies transversal to the enclosure.

The grave is located about 500 metres behind Gramtitz on the left side of the road in a hill overgrown with bushes and trees directly in front of a field path branching off to the south and cannot be missed. Unfortunately, the site is quite overgrown, so that details can only be guessed at. Therefore, a visit may be more worthwhile in autumn/winter.

Visited June 2021

Sassnitz-Waldhalle 2 is a grand dolmen. Only three pairs of supporting stone and the end stone in the east are preserved. The entrance was probably to the west. The chamber measures about 3.50 x 1.70 metres. There are some stones scatterd around the tomb, which are probably remains of capstones.

The tomb is located northeast of Sassnitz in the middle of the Jasmund National Park. To get to the tomb start at the UNESCO World Heritage Forum Waldhalle. Take the road to the west until you came to a three way crossing. Take the left track which after 250 m first leads in a wide curve around a hill. Sassnitz-Waldhalle 2 is on the top of this hill and is hidden under dense ferns.

Visited June 2021

The chamber of the megalithic tomb Sassnitz-Waldhalle 1 is oriented east-west and measures approx. 4 x 1.30 metres. The long sides each have three supporting stones. The endstone on the west side is also present. On the eastern narrow side, where the entrance was apparently located, there is a half-height stone. Two of the original three capstones lie on top. The site has presumably been reconstructed, because when Sprockhoff took his recordings in 1931, the capstones were still lying next to the chamber. A few individual stones around the chamber probably represent remains of an enclosure.

The tomb is located northeast of Sassnitz in the middle of the Jasmund National Park. To get to the tomb start at the UNESCO World Heritage Forum Waldhalle. Take the road to the west until you came to a three way crossing. Take the left track which after 250 m first leads in a wide curve around a hill with the tomb Sassnitz-Waldhalle 2. After about 600 m from the crossing you’ll find a sign for Sassnitz-Waldhalle 1 on the right hand side, which lies about 50 m from the track in the forest.

Visited June 2021

taken from the on-site display board:

Megalithic tomb at the Waldhalle

At about 50 metres lies a megalithic tomb from the Neolithic period. During this time, man gradually began to settle down and raise livestock.
The megalithic tombs were built from 3,500 BC in the Funnel Beaker Culture. On Rügen, the typical construction of megalithic tombs is a grand dolmen. A grand dolmen consists of a burial chamber and a mound bed. In this case, the burial chamber consisted of three yokes. A yoke is composed of two supporting stones and a capstone lying on top of them, which are built up like a gate. The burial chamber is enclosed by stones. This forms the mound bed, which can be angular, round or oval.

In the Funnel Beaker Culture, typical grave goods were pottery sherds and stone artefacts, such as axes, arrowheads, hatchets, shavers and scrapers. As a special feature, amber beads were added. There were repeated reburials in the graves, and the existing resting places were also used from the Bronze Age to the Slavic period.

The megalithic tomb at the Waldhalle is about 5,000 years old. No excavations were carried out. The burial chamber of the grand dolmen is in good condition, which is rather rare. Three quarters of the Megalithic tombs have been destroyed in recent years. The stones were mostly used as building material by the so-called “stone beaters”.