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Everstorfer Forst Süd 3 is a rectangular long barrow measures 22 x 5 metres and contains, roughly at its centre, a passage-less chamber built from six wall stones. No capstones survive. It lies in the southern group of the Everstorfer Forst, directly beside the Teufelsbackofen, in the same forest clearing.

To get to the tomb, walk south from the car park, cross the B105 and continue straight ahead along a forest path. After about 30 metres instead of turn left to Everstorfer Forst Süd 1 continue on the forest path for further 150 m . Here a forest path leads to the east (left). After 35 m a forest path to the right leads you to a small clearing with the tombs Teufelsbackofen and Everstorfer Forst Süd 3.

Visited June 2026

Everstorfer Forst Süd 2 also known as Teufelsbackofen (Devil’s Oven) is an extended dolmen within a round barrow. It belongs to the southern group of the Everstorfer Forst Megalithic Cemetery and is one of three well-preserved tombs south of the B105. It sits within the kerb of a small round barrow, of which 14 or 13 of the originally 24 kerbstones survive. It is an east-west oriented dolmen built from seven supporting stones and two capstones: two stones on three sides each, plus a half-stone on the access side. The chamber measures 2.5 m long, 1.8 m wide and 1.4 m high. The eastern, entrance-side capstone carries numerous Bronze Age cup marks up to 6 cm across and 3 cm deep, some even on its underside facing into the chamber; the second capstone shows only a few of these. The site was excavated and reconstructed in 1966. The smaller capstone, which had been displaced, was replaced. The stones of the enclosure had been displaced to varying degrees; here, a circular arrangement was restored.

To get to the tomb, walk south from the car park, cross the B105 and continue straight ahead along a forest path. After about 30 metres instead of turn left to Everstorfer Forst Süd 1 continue on the forest path for further 150 m . Here a forest path leads to the east (left). After 35 m a forest path to the right leads you to a small clearing with the tombs Teufelsbackofen and Everstorfer Forst Süd 3.

Visited June 2026

Taken from the on-site information board:

Teufelsbackofen (Devil’s Oven)
Dolmen, Cup Mark Stone and Giant’s Bed

In this clearing there are two megalithic tombs of different types. One is a massive, extended dolmen surrounded by a stone circle, and the other is a long Giant’s Bed (Hünenbett) with a ‘small stone chamber’.

In earlier centuries, people could think of no other explanation for the construction of these burial sites than that they were the work of giants (Hünen).

It seemed inconceivable that these tombs could have been built by humans using only the most basic technical tools.

Numerous legends surround the ‘giant’s tombs’, which also explains the name ‘giant’s oven’ or ‘devil’s oven’. Apparently, it was believed that the extended dolmen was a kind of oven.

One of the dolmen’s capstones is covered with numerous small indentations (little bowls). Ethnographic traditions suggest it is likely that healing rock powder was extracted here.