Warburg-Rimbeck Passage Grave
Rimbeck Galerie · Warburg Megalith
Late Neolithic·Wartberg·🇩🇪 North Rhine-Westphalia, Höxter, Germany
About
About Warburg-Rimbeck Passage Grave
Wartberg passage grave at Rimbeck near Warburg (c. 3400–3000 BCE), 18 m gallery with limestone orthostats, antechamber and 10+ burials. Associated with Warburg-Daseburg settlement landscape and early metal finds.
Why it mattersKey Westphalian Wartberg tomb linking Hessian and Soest groups.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Wartberg settlement-cemetery spacing
- 02Dating via charcoal
Theories
- 01Territorial marker for Calden-Warburg plain
- 02Ritual ancestor house
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3300 BCE
- Period
- Late Neolithic
- Culture
- Wartberg
- Purpose
- Collective passage tomb
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 19th–20th century
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 3300 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Warburg-Rimbeck Passage Grave
19th century / 1960s
Antiquarian notice and modern systematic excavation of Warburg-Rimbeck Passage Grave
2000s
Conservation and publication of final reports for Warburg-Rimbeck Passage Grave
On the ground
Structures & features
51.4940° N · 9.0980° E · 245 m · 3 mapped features
Main Gallery Chamber
chamberCentral gallery 18 m with 12 limestone orthostats per side
51.4941° N · 9.0981° EAntechamber Passage
corridor3 m passage with portal stones connecting to gallery
51.4939° N · 9.0981° ETumulus Kerb North
kerbNorthern kerb stones preserved 6 m arc
51.4942° N · 9.0979° E