Nucleus

Nadelitz 1 is a long barrow with a trapezoidal encloure oriented in an east-west direction with a transverse chamber at the eastern end. The northern long side has been destroyed by road construction. The southern long side and the eastern narrow side are well recognisable, even though some stones have been tipped off the high and steep hill. Thus, the dimensions of 24 metres x 8.50 – 6 metres can still be reconstructed, with the narrower side to the west. The chamber is still deep in the ground. It is probably an extended dolmen 2.50 metres long and 2 metres wide. The two capstones have sunk into the chamber. An entrance is not visible.

The megalithic tomb is located at the western end of Nadelitz, directly south of the road from Putbus to Lancken-Granitz on a conspicuous, long hill at a bus stop. There is no signpost.

Visited June 2021

Nadelitz 5 has an east-west oriented, trapezoidal long barrow. It has a length of 35 m and a width of 11 m in the west and 7.5 m in the east. The maximum height is 3.5 m. The stone enclosure is still largely complete with 34 preserved stones (14 missing).

The burial chamber lies near the western end of the long barrow and is oriented north-south. It is about 4.0 m long, 2.0 m wide and 1.4 m high. The entrance is in the south, it has a length of 1.1 m, a width of 0.8 m and a height of 1.0 m. The passage consists of two pairs of wall stones and is bordered on the inside and outside by threshold stones.

The chamber has three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a capstone on the northern narrow side and a smaller half-stone on the western half of the south side between the passage and the western long side. All three capstones are present and were found in situ during the excavation by Ewald Schuldt in 1970.

To get to the tomb, drive east on the L29 (Bäderstraße) through Nadelitz. Approx. 1.3 km after leaving the village, turn off at a bus stop to the right (south) in the direction of Groß Stresow. After 250 m you will see the megalithic tomb about 250 m under a group of trees in the middle of a field. The tombs Nadelitz 4 (70 m) and Nadelitz 3 (110 m) are lying directly behind it.

Visited June 2021

Just 100 m in a south-easterly direction from Dummertevitz 1, in an open field under a group of trees, lies Dummertevitz 2. Only a mound is still preserved, on which several stones lie, but these no longer allow any conclusions to be drawn about the original appearance of the site.

Visited June 2021

This megalithic site with a trapezoidal long barrow oriented in an east-west direction with a transverse burial chamber is about 30 m long. Numerous stones are missing from the enclosure. The north side is still relatively well recognisable, the south side can still be reconstructed on the basis of individual stones. The very large stones at the eastern end of the enclosure are striking. They may also be guardian stones. Of the burial chamber, three support stones each of the eastern and western long sides and the northern endstone are still present. Two capstones of the chamber still lie on their supporting stones, a third one is missing.

You reach it from Lancken-Granitz and drive southwest to the grave group of Lancken-Granitz / Burtevitz. You can park at the junction of the road to Burtevitz and take the forest path (Küstenweg) from here, which leads in a westerly direction south past the graves Burtevitz 3 and Burtevitz 4 and then turns off to the southwest. Dummertevitz 1 (aka Ziegensteine -> goat stones) is located just south of the path after about a kilometre.

Visited June 2021

The megalithic tombs Dummertevitz were originally probably eleven megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture in the vicinity of Dummertevitz, a district of the municipality of Lancken-Granitz in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). Only two of these still exist today. All the tombs were grand dolmens. The best-preserved grave is also known as Ziegensteine (goat stones).

Visited June 2021

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Burtevitz 1 lies south of Lancken-Granitz 4. About 80 m further west on the other side of a path is the tomb Burtevitz 4 and south of it the most south-westerly tomb of the whole group, Burtevitz 3. Burtevitz 2 lies about 860 m in a south-easterly direction from these two tombs.

This completely preserved grand dolmen was only excavated in 1969 by Ewald Schuldt. Until then, the site was considered a barrow and therefore has no Sprockhoff numbering. The mound fill has a diameter of 12 m and reached a height of 2 m before the excavation. The enclosure originally consisted of 18 stones, of which Schuldt found 13.

The burial chamber is oriented northwest-southeast. It is 3.7 m long, 1.8 m wide and 1.3 m high. It has three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a normal-sized end stone on the north-west side and three cap stones.

Visited June 2021

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Burtevitz 1 lies south of Lancken-Granitz 4. About 80 m further west on the other side of a path is the tomb Burtevitz 4 and south of it the most south-westerly tomb of the whole group, Burtevitz 3. Burtevitz 2 lies about 860 m in a south-easterly direction from these two tombs.

The tomb is still largely stuck in a mound almost 0.8 metre high and 9 metres in diameter. Two of the original three capstones, the south-eastern endstone and some supporting stones of the long sides barely protruding from the ground can be seen. The chamber oriented in a northwest-southeast direction, probably a grand dolmen, is assumed to measure 4.50 x 2 metres.

Visited June 2021

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Burtevitz 1 lies south of Lancken-Granitz 4. About 80 m further west on the other side of a path is the tomb Burtevitz 4 and south of it the most south-westerly tomb of the whole group, Burtevitz 3. Burtevitz 2 lies about 860 m in a south-easterly direction from these two tombs.

The tomb was severely damaged in 1926 when the capstones and the south-eastern end stone were removed as building material for a causeway. Ernst Sprockhoff therefore found only an irregular pile of stones when he recorded the site in 1931. The mound fill had been removed and the wall stones protruded 1 m from the ground. In 1969, the site was excavated and restored by E. Beltz. It now appears as a burial chamber, presumably a grand dolmen, with three supporting stones on one side and two preserved ones on the opposite side. A  end stone has also been preserved.

Visited June 2021