Dellbrücker Chamber Megalithic Tomb

A Neolithic tomb; built around 2,700 BC. The now completely free-standing complex was formerly covered by a heaped-up hill.

The Dellbrücker Chamber is a megalithic tomb that was built as a dolmen around 2700 BC. The grave was later extended to become a passage grave. The burial chamber is still completely intact.

The well-preserved megalithic tomb of Dellbrück was uncovered shortly before 1850. No finds have been handed down from this excavation. The boulders lying around on the outside seem to belong to the stone circle of the associated round hill. The chamber itself is a large dolmen without a corridor. The fact that the chamber was intended for many burials is clear from the half-height entry stone on the rear end. We have to imagine the gap above closed with a dry wall that can be easily opened if necessary.

Today there is only a very small part of the 100 or so large stone tombs in Dithmarschen - either as more or less preserved ruins or restored like the passage grave of Linden-Pahlkrug. If you add the surviving earthen dams, plowed chamber floor coverings made of annealed flint and the reports of burial chambers that have since disappeared, there are more than 50 pieces of evidence for the Dithmarscher Geest, including an unknown number of chambers of which we have neither information nor traces . The chambers were better preserved in remote areas, where they were far from the larger towns and marshes with their high stone requirements, and were therefore less likely to fall victim to professional stone cutters.

It is certain that the chambers had a function in the death cult and that at least the types of chamber represented in Dithmarschen were built from the outset for multiple occupations, but the details are quite controversial in research. They may have been ossuaries rather than tombs; one has to reckon with the fact that part of the death cult, perhaps with some sort of temporary burial, took place elsewhere.
Source: steinzeitpark-dithmarschen.de/megalithroute/dellbruecker-kammer