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Man from Jührdenerfeld (Bockhorner Moor Bog Body)

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Man from Jührdenerfeld (Bockhorner Moor Bog Body)

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Man from Jührdenerfeld (Bockhorner Moor Bog Body)

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This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Bockhorner Moor

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Location: East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Moor Hut Bockhorner Moor – Bockhorner Moor Nature Reserve loop from Goelriehenfeld

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2. Moor Hut Bockhorner Moor – Bockhorner Moor Nature Reserve loop from Conneforde

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3. Bockhorner Moor Nature Reserve – Moor Hut Bockhorner Moor loop from Grafenfeld

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Johnny

February 14, 2017

The man from Jührdenerfeld was discovered on 19th November 1934 while digging a drainage ditch by the peat cutter Heinrich Stöfer from Wapeldorf in Hochmoor and brought the following day to the State Museum of Natural History and Prehistory in Oldenburg. The dead man lay in an elongated, natural depression in the bog, above it lay three thick sharpened, up to 160 cm long and about arm-thick wooden piles of alder and rowan. One of the piles lay longitudinally on the dead man, the others above it, at arm and pelvic level, wedged transversely into the wall of the depression to keep the body in place.
Source and more: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_aus_Jührdenerfeld

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Alwin R 🚲

March 5, 2022

The nature reserve with the sign NSG WE 171 is 321 hectares in size. It has been under protection since June 7, 1986. The competent lower nature conservation authority is the district of Friesland.

The nature reserve protects a small part of the formerly huge raised bog. Uncultivated parts of the moor are being renatured. In the peripheral areas, some grassland that is used for agriculture is included in the nature reserve.

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Micha

October 18, 2020

Very interesting information board.

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Man from Jührdenerfeld (Bockhorner Moor Bog Body)

1. Moor Hut Bockhorner Moor – Bockhorner Moor Nature Reserve loop from Goelriehenfeld

2. Moor Hut Bockhorner Moor – Bockhorner Moor Nature Reserve loop from Conneforde

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