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.