The Schnippenburg, with an area of 1.4 hectares, is a smaller ring wall complex that was built in the pre-Roman Iron Age. Its remains lie under the forest west of the Krebsburg in the Schwagstorf district of Ostercappeln in the Osnabrück district of Lower Saxony.

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December 3, 2025

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Schnippenburg Archaeological Site

In this unassuming wooded area lies a significant Iron Age archaeological site, of which hardly anything remains today. Hidden between two main ridges of the Wiehen Hills, there once stood a roughly 1.5-hectare rampart fortified with a stone, timber, and earth wall. Constructed around 270 BC, it was burned down and abandoned barely 150 years later. Much evidence suggests that this site was not permanently inhabited.

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September 15, 2021

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1. Eisenzeithaus Venne – View of Ostercappeln loop from Landkreis Osnabrück

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2. View of Ostercappeln – View of Ostercappeln loop from Schwagstorf

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3. View of Ostercappeln – View of Ostercappeln loop from Schwagstorf

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Location: Ostercappeln, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany

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2. View of Ostercappeln – View of Ostercappeln loop from Schwagstorf

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