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Düwelsteene - Heiden

Passage Grave

<b>Düwelsteene - Heiden</b>Posted by NucleusImage © Uwe Häberle 07/2018
Also known as:
  • Heiden
  • Teufelssteine (Heiden)
  • Sprockhoff Nr. 985

Latitude:51° 50' 0.49" N
Longitude:   6° 58' 42.1" E

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The Düwelsteene (Devil Stones in Low German) are the most south-westerly, in the core area preserved megalithic site of funnel beaker culture, created about 3500-2800 BC and one of the few in Westphalia.

They were already restored in 1932. The northeast-southwest oriented site is 12 m long outside (inside 10.2 m) and 2.7 m to 4.3 m wide (inside 1.5 m to 2.2 m); the inside height is 1.5 m. The now-defunct original chamber floor was covered with a patch of flat field and flint stones. Almost all the supporting stones and three capstones are still preserved, whereas an enclosure is no longer visible today. Access to the chamber is no longer safe to determine.

The megalith tomb can be reached via the Reken exit of the autobahn A31. Here you drive towards Heiden until you reach a roundabout. Turn right (north) until the next roundabout, here first straight ahead over the roundabout and after 290m right into the Düwelsteenweg. Follow this for 1.6 km until you come to an junction. Here you should park and walk the remaining 600m on a sandy, unpaved road on foot.

Visited July 2018
Nucleus Posted by Nucleus
12th November 2018ce

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Today, the name of the Düwelsteene is linked above all to the legend of a cunning cobbler, to whom a monument on the market place of Heiden is dedicated. According to this, the devil carried a sack full of heavy stones on his back and was on his way to Aachen to destroy the cathedral of Charlemagne. Near Heiden he met a cobbler carrying twelve pairs of worn-out shoes. Asked by the devil, how far was it to Aachen, the cobbler pointed to the shoes: It was far away that he had torn all these shoes on his way from Aachen to Heiden. He had recognized the devil at once by his horse's foot and had suspected evil, so that he gave this clever answer. His information led the Devil, already worn out by carrying the heavy stones, to pour them out of the sack in the act of rage and then pull them away. These stones were called from then on the Düwelsteene.

taken from Kerstin Schierhold/Bernhard Stapel, Die Düwelsteene bei Heiden, Kreis Borken. Megalithgräber in Westfalen 3 (Münster 2018)
Nucleus Posted by Nucleus
12th November 2018ce
Edited 12th November 2018ce

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Die Düwelsteene bei Heiden @ Altertumskommission für Westfalen


German website of the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia with a short description and a 3D model (takes some time to load). In addition, it is possible to order the corresponding booklet (alson in German) from the series "Megalithic graves in Westphalia" with the current state of research on the megalithic grave on the website.
Nucleus Posted by Nucleus
22nd December 2018ce