- 25:40 h
- 396.05 km
- 941 m
- 1,007 m
- 1 m
- 162 m
- 161 m
- Start: Osnabrück/Oldenburg
- Destination: Oldenburg/Osnabrück
Granite boulders are even heavier than they look: The 70 megalithic tombs along the Megalithic Culture Cycle Route were built from boulders that weigh up to 50 tons - as much as 2,500 bicycles put together. Who created such structures more than 5,000 years ago without machines and with pure muscle power? Giants! That's what people believed in the past and told legends about the "megalithic tombs".
Trace these myths on the route between Osnabrück and Oldenburg. Discover the Devil's Stones, Devil's Baking Trough, Devil's Baking Oven and other Neolithic cult sites on ridges in the heath or in the semi-darkness of deep forests.
Learn the truth about the megalithic graves, which is at least as exciting as the legends. This is because the Neolithic builders were apparently already using draft animals 5,500 years ago and applying the laws of leverage, which Archimedes only formulated 3,000 years later.
The megalithic tombs also provide an insight into everyday life in the Neolithic period, as they contained grave goods such as weapons, jewelry and food. Different foods were found in the typical "funnel beakers", so that we know today: People back then kept sheep, goats, cattle and pigs and they grew wheat, barley, peas and beans.
Replicas of megalithic tombs with complete furnishings can be found in the Exhibition Center for the Archaeology of Emsland in Meppen and in the State Museum of Nature and Man in Oldenburg. Background information on individual gravesites is provided by information boards on site.
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Natur- und Geopark TERRA.vita
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Osnabrücker Land
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