Visbek bride and groom

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Visbek bride and groom
Visbek groom

Visbek groom
Visbek bride and groom (Lower Saxony)
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Coordinates 52 ° 53 '31 "  N , 8 ° 19' 28"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '31 "  N , 8 ° 19' 28"  E
place Visbek , Großenkneten and Wildeshausen , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

Visbek bride and groom is the name of a legend that takes place in the Ahlhorn Heath between Visbek and Wildeshausen . The legend tried to explain the origin of the large stone graves Visbeker Bride and Visbeker Groom . They are megalithic systems of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK), which existed between 3500 and 2800 BC. Originated in Lower Saxony . Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development. The megaliths are parts of the road of megalithic culture .

Megaliths

  • Bridal path with the Visbek bride

  • Visbek bride

  • Bridal car

Visbek bride

The approximately 80 m long and nine meters wide Visbeker bride is located in the Holzhauser Heide in the area of ​​the rural community Wildeshausen ( district of Oldenburg ) near the Wildeshausen-West junction of the Bremen-Osnabrück motorway . The stones surrounding the megalithic bed are almost complete, but partly tilted. The system is bordered on the southwest side by four huge stones up to 2.5 m high. However, it is not certain whether these are the original stones of the edging or converted stones. There are no stones on the northeast side of the enclosure. Near the northwest side is the burial chamber, which measures only 5.5 × 1.5 m. The north-west-south-east oriented system is associated with the summer solstice due to the orientation towards the sunrise at midsummer. It is possible that the Visbek bride was a Stone Age moon observatory: the rows of stones indicate the rising and setting azimuths of the moon in its extreme declination .

Visbek groom

The megalithic grave, originally bordered by 170 boulder blocks, is 104 meters long and 8 to 9 meters wide and is one of the most impressive megalithic complexes in northwest Germany. It is located about 4 km west-southwest of the Visbeker Braut in the area of ​​the community of Großenkneten (district of Oldenburg), immediately north of the Endel homestead and the Engelmannsbäke inn.

legend

The Visbeker Bride and Visbeker Bridegroom facilities got their name from an old legend according to which a young woman should be forced by her parents to marry a rich but hated husband from Visbek. When she and her entourage were taken to Visbek to get married and saw the town in the distance, she wished she would rather be turned into stone than marry the man to whom she was promised. So it happened, and the bride and her entourage froze to stone in the place where they stand to this day. The same fate happened to her bridegroom, who as a Visbek bridegroom is only a few kilometers away. In fact, today and at the beginning of the 19th century you could not see any buildings in the center of the Visbek municipality from the Visbek bride .

The story was recorded in writing for the first time in the form of a poem in 26 stanzas with the title The Stone Bride from Wildeshausen . This was written by Pastor J. G. T. Lamprecht , who was initially in Wildeshausen and later in Hitzacker , and had it published in 1801. In this version, however, the word “Visbek” does not appear. Carl Heinrich Nieberding made the connection to Visbek with an introduction to the poem in prose. Nieberding gave the entire text the title Die Vißbeck Bride .

See also

literature

  • Bernward Deneke: "Visbeck bride and groom". On the origin and interpretation of the legend . In: Heimatkalender für das Oldenburger Münsterland , Volume 6, 1957, pp. 55–58 ( online )
  • 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.
  • KA Mayer: The legend of the Visbeck bride . P. 31. In: Heimatkunde des Großggerzogtums Oldenburg , edited by J. Meine and J. Jacobs. Bültmann & Gerriets, Oldenburg 1884.
  • Ludwig Strackerjan: Hünensteine ​​in Oldenburg . In: The Gazebo . Issue 7, 1879, pp. 119–123 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15
  2. ↑ Recklinghausen observatory: The Visbeker Bride - a Stone Age moon observatory? (PDF)
  3. ↑ JGT Lamprecht: The stone bride . In: The philosopher in the Lüneburg Heath . Celle and Lüneburg 1801. pp. 127-138
  4. ↑ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: Sagen . Printed posthumously in: JCB Stüve (Hrsg.): Mittheilungen des Historisches Verein zu Osnabrück . 3rd year, 1853, p. 41 f., Textarchiv - Internet Archive