Name: Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Bretziner Heide
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Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Bretziner Heide

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Location: Bengerstorf, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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JR56

July 30, 2020

The Bretziner Heide is only relatively small, but there are good MTB trails on which you should ride carefully and in a way that is kind to nature,

because there are also historical burial mounds.

The Bretziner Heide nature reserve is a 31 hectare nature reserve eight kilometers northeast of Boizenburg. It is one of the last dry dwarf shrub heaths in West Mecklenburg.

The area developed on a moraine plateau of the Saale ice age, which was bordered by two glacial valleys, the current rivers Boize in the west and Schaale in the east.

Human use of the area has been documented by burial mounds since the Bronze Age. For centuries, pasture was used and raw humus was extracted, making the areas extremely poor in nutrients. The heath with a circumference of 35 hectares is also recorded on the Schmet Swap Map from 1788. From the 1970s, the original land use was discontinued and the areas were bushed. The first care measures began in the late 1970s. The areas were mowed, woody plants removed and grazed with Gotland sheep from 1985 to 1992. In 1993 and 1994 mechanical plagues followed and grazing with sheep of the Scottish blackface breed.

The burial mounds of the Bretziner Heide date from the Bronze Age about 3000 to 3500 years ago. In the mounds of earth there are coffins embedded in a stone layer of fist-sized stones. In the course of the Bronze Age, the existing burial mounds were also used for burying urns. In addition to privileged people, people from all social classes at that time found their last resting place in these graves.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturschutzgebiet_Bretziner_Heide

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Dirk Heller

April 8, 2020

Hutebuche right behind the heather

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Location: Bengerstorf, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Bretziner Heide

1. St. Laurentius Church Nostorf – Lüttenmark Chapel loop from Nostorf

2. Lüttenmark Chapel – Schloss Tüschow loop from Boizenburg/Elbe

3. Büchen Canal Bridge – Open-Air Museum Tor 21 loop from Büchen

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