Great Wrangler at Waddekath

The Great Wranglers at Waddekath were five or six megalithic Neolithic gravestones near Waddekath, a district of Diesdorf in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt. All were destroyed in the 19th century.

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The graves were west of Diesdorf in the village of Waddekath. Edit HistoryQuelltext

For the first time, the installations were documented in 1842 by Johann Friedrich Danneil, who, however, could only describe one more and found that four other graves had already been completely destroyed. Several other graves of unknown numbers had already been destroyed. In the 1890s Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack had to say that the fifth grave had also been completely removed in the course of the separation. The possible existence of a sixth grave is only indicated by the name "behind the gorge graves" on a historical test piece. Edit source text

The only tomb still in existence in 1842, at that time, consisted only of an already damaged grave chamber. This had a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1.3 m. Decksteine ​​was no longer available. However, a larger number of small stones could have been the fragments of split deck stones. Because of their small size, the chamber is likely to be called as an initial dolmen or as a small expanded dolmen. Edit source text

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