It’s time to clear the megalithic tomb of weeds and overgrowth again.
Re-revisited September 2025
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 09/2025
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A panorama shot from the entrance of the northern chamber
Re-revisited September 2025
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The three burial chambers within the enclosing giant’s bed (Hünebett)
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The Visbeker Braut and Visbeker Bräutigam tombs got their names from an old legend, according to which a young woman was forced by her parents to marry a rich man from Visbek whom she hated. When she was led to Visbek with her entourage to be married and saw the town in the distance, she wished to be turned to stone rather than marry the man she had been promised to. And so it came to pass that the bride and her entourage were turned to stone on the spot, where they remain to this day. The same fate befell her groom, who stands just a few kilometres away as the Visbeker Bräutigam. In fact, today, as was already the case at the beginning of the 19th century, no buildings in the centre of the municipality of Visbek can be seen from the Visbeker Braut.
The Visbeker Bräutigam (Visbek Bridegroom) is an ensemble of megalithic tombs (Sprockhoff Nos. 934–938) on the Route of Megalithic Culture and is located in the municipality of Großenkneten in the district of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony.
The largest of these tombs Visbecker Bräutigam 3 (Sprockhoff No. 936) is located together with the other tombs in this group in a mixed forest north of the sandy lowland stream Aue, which is called Engelmannsbäke in this area.
The counterpart to the Visbeker Bräutigam – the Visbeker Braut (Visbek Bride) megalithic tomb – is located approximately four kilometres to the east-northeast.
taken from the on-site information board:
Megalithic tomb
Burial site of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (approx. 3400 – 2800 BC). Long burial chamber (internal dimensions approx. 23.70 x 1.80 m) with entrance on the south-eastern long side and partially preserved boulder enclosure. The floor plan suggests that the chamber was extended on the west side.
Megalithic tombs were burial sites for several generations of a settlement community.
The tomb is a listed monument and protected by law.
Uwe Häberle 09/2025
Image credit: Revisited September 2025
With the central Visbeker Bräutigam 3 in the background
Revisited September 2025
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 09/2025
Revisited September 2025
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 09/2025
taken from the on-site information board:
Megalithic tomb
Burial site of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (approx. 3400 – 2800 BC) in a mound measuring 17 metres in diameter.
Only one supporting stone and two capstones remain visible of what is probably still a completely preserved burial chamber.
Megalithic tombs were burial sites for several generations of a settlement community.
The tomb is a listed monument and protected by law.
The eastern end of the enclosure
Re-revisited September 2025
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 09/2025
The chambered tomb in the eastern end of the enclosure
Re-revisited September 2025
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The eastern end of this massive (104m long) giant’s bed
Re-revisited September 2025
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 09/2025
