Visbek bride

Visbek bride
Visbek bride from the northeast
Coordinates	52 ° 53 '31 "  N , 8 ° 19' 28"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '31 "  N , 8 ° 19' 28"  E
place	Wildeshausen , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence	3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
height	41  m
Sprockhoff no.	952

Bridal path with the Visbek bride

The Visbek bride is a large stone grave in the municipality of Wildeshausen in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg .

It is located west of the core area of ​​Wildeshausen and south of the A1 and the B 213 .

The access-free chamber, made up of ten supporting stones and four cap stones, is located in an approximately 80 m long and nine meters wide bed of mounds that was formerly surrounded by 105 curb stones. 47 stones (three missing) are on one long side and 33 (17 missing) on ​​the other. The short side in the southwest has two curb stones over 2.5 m high, the three stones on the northeast side are missing.

See also

• Visbek groom
• Visbek bride and groom (legend)
• Nordic megalithic architecture
• Street of the Megalithic Culture

literature

• Anette Bußmann: Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 95-97.
• Mamoun Fansa : large stone graves between Weser and Ems. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-118-5 , pp. 120-121.
• Ernst Andreas Friedrich : Visbek bride and groom. In: If stones could talk. Volume II, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7842-0479-1 , pp. 9-11.
• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 137.
• Ludwig Strackerjan: Hünensteine ​​in Oldenburg . In: The Gazebo . Issue 7, 1879, pp. 119–123 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Visbeker Braut  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Navigator - interactive focused on the Visbek bride. Official map service of the LGLN
• Visbek bride and groom - legend
• Description and pictures
• Visbek bride . Stone pages
• The Visbek bride - a Stone Age moon observatory? (PDF; 806 kB) Recklinghausen observatory