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Lancken-Granitz 4 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech)

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Lancken-Granitz 1 to 3 lie in a line running almost east-west, Lancken-Granitz 4 lies about 70 m south-west of this group of three.

Lancken-Granitz 4 is an extended dolmen with three yokes. All support stones are preserved. One capstone lies on top, a second one has slipped into the chamber. The third capstone is missing. The southern narrow side is half closed by a support stone, next to it is the entrance to the chamber. The north-south oriented burial chamber is 3.5 m long and 1.8 m wide. Its height is 1.4 m at the north end and 1.1 m at the south end.

Visited June 2021

Lancken-Granitz 3 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech)

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Lancken-Granitz 1 to 3 lie in a line running almost east-west, Lancken-Granitz 4 is about 70 m south-west of this group of three.

Lancken-Granitz 3, the middle of the group of three, is an extended dolmen oriented in a northwest-southeast direction. The burial chamber is 3.6 m long, 1.8 m wide and 1.3 m high. There are three supporting stones on each of the long sides. The north-western end stone of the narrow side is in situ. A small stone is present on the south-western side, perhaps a doorstep stone. A capstone lies on top, a stone lying in front of the tomb could be a second capstone.

Visited June 2021

Lancken-Granitz 2 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech)

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Lancken-Granitz 1 to 3 lie in a line running almost east-west, Lancken-Granitz 4 is about 70 m south-west of this group of three.

Lancken-Granitz 2, the easternmost tomb of the group of three, is the largest and relatively well preserved. It has an east-west oriented, slightly trapezoidal long barrow with a length of 30 m, built on a mound that slopes steeply towards the north. The enclosure originally consisted of 25 stones, 14 of which are still preserved. The long sides of the long barrow are clearly visible, although some stones are missing or somewhat displaced.

The chamber of the grand dolmen lies at the western end of the enclosure and is transverse to it, i.e. oriented north-south. It is 4.5 m long, 2.3 m wide and 1.6 m high. It has three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and a cap stone on the northern narrow side. Of the original three capstones, only the northern and the middle one have survived.

Visited June 2021

Lancken-Granitz 1 (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech)

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz lies a group of 7 megalithic tombs, 4 of which belong to Lancken-Granitz, three to Burtevitz. They can be easily reached via the road leading southwest out of Lancken-Granitz. A sign points to the tombs. Lancken-Granitz 1 to 3 lie in a line running almost east-west, Lancken-Granitz 4 is about 70 m south-west of this group of three.

Lancken-Granitz 1, the westernmost of the group of three, is a east-west oriented long barrow with a transverse lying burial chamber. The chamber is 4.5 m long, 2.2 m wide and 1.5 m high. The long barrow has been destroyed, but its extent is still clearly visible. A large stone at the eastern end is probably a guardian stone. The chamber lies in the western part of the long barrow. It is a three-yoke, completely preserved chamber, apparently an extended dolmen. All three capstones lie on their supporting stones, although some of them have slipped into the chamber. The stones already show drill holes in preparation for blasting. The stones of the chamber are partly overgrown by large trees.

Visited June 2021

Lancken-Granitz

Southwest of Lancken-Granitz, Lancken-Granitz 1-4 (originally 8 graves), Burtevitz 1,3 and 4 (originally 23 graves) are a total of 7 preserved megalithic tombs lined up in a southwesterly direction, like a string of pearls over a distance of about 400m. If one adds the two megalithic tombs Dummertevitz 1 (also known as Ziegensteine) and 2 (originally 11 tombs), this collection is probably one of the largest former necropolises on Rügen.

Please note that my numbering scheme follows the numbering on the German Wikipedia page, which is based on Ewald Schludt's numbering.

Sprockhoff / Schuldt / Beier
Lancken 1 (504) / Lancken-Granitz 2 / Lancken-Granitz 4
Lancken 2 (503) / Lancken-Granitz 3 / Lancken-Granitz 3
Lancken 3 (502) / Lancken-Granitz 1 / Lancken-Granitz 2
Lancken 4 (501) / Lancken-Granitz 4 / Lancken-Granitz 1

Visited June 2021

Altensien (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech)

Altensien aka Goldbusch is a grand dolmen oriented in a northeast-southwest direction. According to the information board it is the last of formerly 43 tombs between Altensien and Seedorf.

The site was badly damaged. It was excavated and restored in 1969 by E. Schuldt. It has three supporting stones on each long side. The end stones are also preserved. The entrance consisted of two sandstone slabs. One of the original two capstones has sunk halfway into the chamber, the second is missing. The capstone has numerous cup marks.

To get to the tomb, drive on the B196 from Lancken-Granitz to Sellin and Göhren, turn right towards Altensien and Moritzdorf. Drive through Altensien in the direction of Moritzdorf and after about 1 km immediately east of the narrow road, close to Selliner See, you will find the signed megalitic tomb on the left on a small hill.

Visited June 2021

Alt Reddewitz (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech)

The megaltihic tomb Alt Reddewitz (aka Herzogsgrab, which translates to Duke's grave) is a long barrow oriented approximately in east-northeast-west-southwest direction with a transverse chamber. There are only a few stones left of the barrow, some of which are no longer in their original position. It will have been about 24 meters long and tapers from 9 to about 7 meters wide. The approximately 5.40 meter long burial chamber consists of 4 pairs of supporting stones. Of the three capstones, one stone weighing approx. 6 tons is still intact, the other two are broken in the chamber.

To get to the tomb, drive on the B196 from Baabe to Göhren. At the roundabout take the first exist to Mönchsgut / Lobbe. Immediately afterwards there is a small pariking lot on the right side and an entrance to a forest path. Park your car here and follow the path for about 900 meters. The signed tomb is then to the right of the path.

Visited June 2021

Nobbin 1 (Long Barrow)

Nobbin 1 (aka Riesenberg) is one of the largest stone graves in north Germany and is only a few meters away from the steep coast of the Tromper Wiek, directly at the Hochuferweg.

It is a trapezoidal long barrow with two chambers (extended dolmens). The trapezoidal enclosure of the complex, made up of 53 large curb stones, is 34 m long and 11 to 8 meters wide (39 stones have been preserved). In the northwest there were two transverse dolmens, one of which is well preserved. It is 1.4 m high, 1.8 m long and 1.1 m wide. The second dolmen was constructed in a similar way, but only one supporting stone has been preserved. On the south-west side, two guardian stones (called "Wächterpaar von Nobbin") over three meters high are placed in front of the enclosure.

To get to this impressive megalithc tomb drive from Altenkirchen on the K1 to Putgarten (Kap Arkona). Although the tomb is probably the most famous megalithic tomb on Rügen, it is not properly signed. In Nobbin, turn southeast and drive on until you come to a t-crossing. You have to park here as the dirt road to the east is closed to cars. From here it is a 600m walk to the tomb, after 400m turn north (left) to get to the tomb. More courageous drivers drive the 400m to the fork in the road and park here.

Visited June 2021

Nipmerow 5 (Passage Grave)

The burial chamber of this passage grave is oriented east-west. It has a length of 4.0 m, a width of 1.6 m and a height of 1.1 m. It has four wall stones on the southern long side and one end stone each on the narrow sides. The northern long side has three wall stones and a narrow plate. This is where the entrance to the chamber is located, unusually on the north side of the chamber. The tomb is surrounded by a stone circle, which was probably only added in Slavic times. Due to threats from the ongoing gravel mining (the grave is on the edge of a gravel pit) it was excavated in 1986 by Dr. Günther Rennebach.

To visit the tomb drive on the L303 from Hagen to Nipmerow. Pass the huge car park Nationalpark Königsstuhl. Immediately at the entrance to Nimperow, the street turns sharply to the left. Here you leave the L303 and continue straight on. After approx. 550m you will reach a small parking lot on the right hand side and a sign for the grave. Park here and walk about 250m on a beaten path to the east. The tomb is on a small hillock. During my visit the grass was unfortunately very high and the grave was a bit overgrown by the vegetation.

Visited June 2021

taken from the on-site information board:

Burials at different times under a earth mound or a stone pack made of boulders are known as barrows. The surface is often protected by a cover made of pebbles. The grave complex is further secured by enclosing the edge of the hill with boulders and dry masonry or a circular moat. The shapes vary greatly: In the Neolithic Age (3500-1800 BC), partly flat, round or oval mounds, partly steep and conical burial mounds were built. Even in the Bronze Age (1800-600 BC) flat and steep, concise mounds occur. The burial mounds of the Iron Age (600-50 BC) and the Slavic period (700-1168 AD) are mostly low and inconspicuous. A peculiarity in Slavic times are rectangular burial mounds. The burials in the mounds were in the embankment or in stone chambers, stone packings or wooden structures. The barrows are often grouped together. Isolated hills are often characterized by an imposing size. Most of Rügen's burial mounds were destroyed by agriculture in the 19th and 20th centuries. But with over 560 hills, which are under protection according to the district soil monument list, the island of Rügen still has the highest population in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The grave mound at "Magelowberg" was opened in 1983 by Dr. Günther Rennebach and archaeologically examined. The excavations revealed a "passage grave" from the Neolithic Age (3500-1800 BC) under a cairn with a bed of mounds and a stone circle. Access to the east-west facing burial chamber was from the north. In Slavic times, the burial mound was supplemented by a further circle of stones, in which two body burials were carried out.

Boikenhoog (Round Barrow(s))

Right between Keitum and Munkmarsch, approximately at the level of the Jückermarsch Brücke, lies this rather small burial mound on a slope about 140 m in a field.

Parking is possible 100 m before the mound on the right side when you drive from Keitum towards Munkmarsch.

Visited September 2020

Gallighoog (Round Barrow(s))

taken from the on-site hünen.kulTOUR information board:

Gallighoog & Boikenhoog

The two Bronze Age burial mounds are prominently located on the Geest slope on both sides of the Jückersmarsch lowland.

The Frisian free hero Pidder Lüng is said to have been executed and buried on the Gallighoog (gallows hill) in 1518.

» According to legend, he now hikes every night as a Jückersmarschmann from Gallighoog to Boikenhoog and repeatedly calls on the undefeated hero Boh, who is resting there, to restore freedom and the Frisians' right to self-determination. «

A human skeleton is said to have been found in Gallighoog around 1880.

Boikenhoog (Round Barrow(s))

taken from the on-site hünen.kulTOUR information board:

Gallighoog & Boikenhoog

The two Bronze Age burial mounds are prominently located on the Geest slope on both sides of the Jückersmarsch lowland.

The Frisian free hero Pidder Lüng is said to have been executed and buried on the Gallighoog (gallows hill) in 1518.

» According to legend, he now hikes every night as a Jückersmarschmann from Gallighoog to Boikenhoog and repeatedly calls on the undefeated hero Boh, who is resting there, to restore freedom and the Frisians' right to self-determination. «

A human skeleton is said to have been found in Gallighoog around 1880.

Gonnenhoog (Round Barrow(s))

At the lighthouse of Kampen lies a group of burial mounds. One of them is the Gonnenhoog, which lies northeast of the lighthouse. The other two groups are the Brönshooger group and the Jüdelhooger group, which are southwest and southeast of the lighthouse.

To get to the burial mounds, coming from Wenningstedt on the L52, turn right at the traffic lights in Kampen into the Braderuper Weg. After 180 m, just after you pass the Restaurant Club Rotes Kliff on the left side, turn right into Alte Dorfstraße. After about 100 m turn half left into the Brönshooger Weg. The roads leads directly to the lighthouse of Kampen, however about 300 m before you reach the lighthouse, the road is closed to public traffic. Gonnenhoog lies about 150 m after the road is closed, to the left 75 m in a field.

Visited September 2020

Jüdelhooger (Round Barrow(s))

At the lighthouse of Kampen lies a group of burial mounds. One of them are the Jüdelhooger, which consist of the two mounds Gurt Jüdelhoog and Litj Jüdelhoog (I guess in Frisian "Gurt" means "big/great" and Litj means "little"). The mounds are located southeast of the lighthouse and east of the Brönshooger Weg. On the other side of this roads are the Brönshooger group and northeast the Gonnenhoog.

To get to the burial mounds, coming from Wenningstedt on the L52, turn right at the traffic lights in Kampen into the Braderuper Weg. After 180 m, just after you pass the Restaurant Club Rotes Kliff on the left side, turn right into Alte Dorfstraße. After about 100 m turn half left into the Brönshooger Weg. The roads leads directly to the lighthouse of Kampen, however about 300 m before you reach the lighthouse, the road is closed to public traffic, so you have to walk this distance.

Visited September 2020

taken from the on-site hünen.kulTOUR information board:

Burial mounds at the Kampen lighthouse

On the highest point of the Sylt Geest around the Kampen lighthouse are some Bronze Age burial mounds.

Overview:
This map was created by the local researcher C.P. Hansen (1803-1879) in Sölring, the Sylt Frisian.
It shows the location of the burial mounds in 1857. Some of the mounds no longer exist today.

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Brönshooger (Round Barrow(s))

At the lighthouse of Kampen lies a group of burial mounds. One of them are the Brönshooger, which consist of the three mounds Gurt Brönshoog, Litj Brönshoog and Hünshoog (I guess in Frisian "Gurt" means "big/great" and Litj means "little"). The mounds are located southwest of the lighthouse and west of the Brönshooger Weg. On the other side of this roads are the Jüdelhooger group and the Gonnenhoog.

To my shame I have to admit that I didn't even realize the largest mound of the group Gurt Bröndshoog at first, because it is overgrown and I focused more on the lighthouse with my photos. Unfortunately, I only noticed my mistake at home. Therefore, the burial mound unfortunately only occupies a small section of the pictures compared to the Lighthouse of Kampen.

To get to the burial mounds, coming from Wenningstedt on the L52, turn right at the traffic lights in Kampen into the Braderuper Weg. After 180 m, just after you pass the Restaurant Club Rotes Kliff on the left side, turn right into Alte Dorfstraße. After about 100 m turn half left into the Brönshooger Weg. The roads leads directly to the lighthouse of Kampen, however about 300 m before you reach the lighthouse, so you have to walk this distance.

Visited September 2020

taken from the on-site hünen.kulTOUR information board:

Gurt Brönshoog

The Gurt Brönshoog is the mightiest burial mound on Sylt today (picture below). In the past, the Biike fire of Kampen was lit on the Gurt Jüdelhoog every year. » According to legend, the names of the mounds go back to the battle of the giants, the dwarfs and pukes. The king of the giants Bröns was buried on his golden chariot in Gurt Brönshoog, his son rests in neighboring Litj Brönshoog. Even his dog got a mound, the Hünshoog. In the Teewelkenhoog the personal physician of King Bröns was buried alive by the dwarfs. The kings of the puks Nißchen lies in the Nessenhoog. «

Kampener Findling vom Roten Kliff (Natural Rock Feature)

The Roten Kliff in Kampen is one of the many sunset hotspots on Sylt. So I also went to this place on one evening of my holiday stay on Sylt to visit the sunset and watch the light that the sun throws on the cliff, making it glow red.

More or less by chance I walked past a huge boulder at the entrance to the sun terrace at the parking lot. And what an impressive stone this is. The stone weighs around 20 t and is 3.5 m high. It was brought here from the beach in 2005. On one side drill holes are visible.

So if you spend your vacation on Sylt and want to visit two natural wonders at once, plan one evening at the Roten Kliff during sunset (all of which are really magical on Sylt due to the more or less precisely west-facing coast) and visit this very impressive boulder on the occasion.

Visited September 2020

taken from the on-site information board:

The Kampen boulder from the Roten Kliff

Data on the boulder:

Type of rock: biotite gneiss
Size: over 3.5m high
Weight: about 20 t (400 quintals)
Location: next to a groyne on the main beach
Salvage: March 2005

The boulder from the Roten Kliff is a stone that weighs around 20 t and is more than a billion years old. It is a gneiss from the Scandinavian mountains.

The stone used to be a granite with unregulated minerals. In the depths of the earth, at high temperatures and great pressure, the granite was transformed into gneiss. The individual minerals are arranged parallel to one another.

In the boulder there are inclusions (lenses) of dark foreign rock that penetrated during the transformation into the then plastic granite and were also adjusted. During the Ice Age over 200,000 years ago, part of a gneiss complex in Scandinavia broke loose from the mighty glacier and was transported hundreds of kilometers to Sylt in the ice stream. This stone, rounded off by the transport, is now called a boulder and could thus be recovered from the Kampen beach.
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During my first trip to Ireland back in 2006, I was bitten by the 'megalithic' bug and since then I seek for every opportunity to visit as much sites as possible, with a bias for stone circles.

As I live in the southwest of Germany (not an area famous for megaliths), I rely on my holidays to be able to visit these sites.

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