Pestrup
Pestrup
City and rural community Wildeshausen
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 53 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 10 ″ E
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Height : | 25 m | |
Residents : | 17 (Jan. 1, 2017) | |
Postal code : | 27793 | |
Area code : | 04431 | |
Location of Pestrup in Lower Saxony |
Pestrup is a farming community in the rural community of Wildeshausen in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg .
geography
The village of Pestrup, which has 15 residents, is located between the K 248 district road and the Hunte, which runs to the east . It belongs to the so-called rural community of Wildeshausen surrounding the core area .
Culture and sights
The Pestrup burial ground , approx. 1.5 km northwest of the K 248, is the largest Bronze and Iron Age necropolis in northern Central Europe. There are around 500 larger and smaller burial mounds on an area of 39 hectares . The burial ground is part of the Route of the Megalithic Culture and part of the nature reserve Pestruper Gräberfeld und Rosengarten .
The 35 hectare Pestruper Moor, which is also approx. 1.5 km northwest of Pestrup, is also designated as a nature reserve. It connects to the northeast of the Pestrup burial ground and lies on the right of the K 248. This moor is a low moor .