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Revisited July 2018

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 07/2018

Nucleus Nov 4, 2018

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Visbeker Bräutigam

Nucleus Oct 19, 2025

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.

Visbeker Bräutigam

Nucleus Oct 19, 2025

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.

Sites within 20km of Visbeker Bräutigam

Visbeker Bräutigam 2

Tumulus (France and Brittany) • 0.04km WNW

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Visbeker Bräutigam 3

Long Barrow • 0.04km ENE

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Visbeker Bräutigam 4

Passage Grave • 0.07km ESE

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Visbeker Bräutigam 1

Passage Grave • 0.1km WNW

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Visbeker Bräutigam 5

Chambered Tomb • 0.11km E

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Heidenopfertisch

Passage Grave • 0.29km S

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Ahlhorner Kellersteine 1

Passage Grave • 0.99km ENE

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Ahlhorner Kellersteine

1.03km ENE

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Ahlhorner Kellersteine 2

Passage Grave • 1.06km ENE

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Ahlhorn

Chambered Tomb • 1.29km WSW

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Ahlhorn Landwehrbäke

Chambered Tomb • 2.14km WSW

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Steinloger Kellersteine 1

Passage Grave • 2.7km ENE

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Steinloger Kellersteine 2

Passage Grave • 2.71km ENE

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Steinloger Kellersteine

2.76km ENE

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Stüvenmühle 1

Chambered Tomb • 3.17km S

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Mühlensteine – Varnhorn

Passage Grave • 4.09km E

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Visbeker Braut

Long Barrow • 4.17km ENE

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Schmeersteine – Varnhorn

Chambered Tomb • 4.25km E

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Thölstedt

Passage Grave • 4.75km ENE

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Bakenhus

Chambered Tomb • 5.63km NW

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Holzhauser Kellersteine 1

Passage Grave • 6.58km ENE

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Holzhauser Kellersteine

6.8km ENE

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Holzhauser Kellersteine 2

Chambered Tomb • 6.98km ENE

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Hohe Steine, Wildeshausen

7.96km ENE

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Bargloyer Steinkiste

Cist • 8.51km ENE

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Im Stockenbusch

Chambered Tomb • 8.71km W

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Glaner Braut 3

Chambered Tomb • 9.17km NE

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Glaner Braut 1

Chambered Tomb • 9.23km NE

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Glaner Braut

9.24km NE

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Glaner Braut 2

Chambered Tomb • 9.25km NE

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Glaner Braut 4

Chambered Tomb • 9.27km NE

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Zwölf Apostel (Ahlhorn)

Stone Setting • 9.44km W

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Dötlingen

Passage Grave • 10.17km NE

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Egypten

Chambered Tomb • 10.86km NE

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Gerichtsstätte

Passage Grave • 11.47km ENE

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Kleinenknetener Steine 1

Passage Grave • 11.54km E

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Kleinenknetener Steine

11.59km E

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Kleinenknetener Steine 3

Chambered Tomb • 11.61km E

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Kleinenknetener Steine 2

Passage Grave • 11.62km E

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Huntlosen 1

Chambered Tomb • 11.78km NNW

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Hatten 2

Passage Grave • 14.04km NNE

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Hatten 1

Chambered Tomb • 14.51km N

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Reckumer Steine 2

Passage Grave • 14.53km E

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Reckumer Steine

14.56km E

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Reckumer Steine 1

Passage Grave • 14.59km E

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