Megalithic Tomb of Munkwolstrup (Arnkiel Park)

At 70 m long, the megalithic grave in Arnkiel Park is the longest large stone grave in Northern Europe.

The grave complex was reconstructed in 2003. For this purpose, 160 3-ton boulders were brought in from the nearby gravel pit, because almost all of the original stones were found in the 18th and 19th centuries. Century used for road construction or an Austrian monument.

The megalithic tomb at Mukwolstrup is around 5,500 years old. It belongs to the long beds, which were again divided into individual burial chambers. 100 years earlier, the first settlers of the Funnel Beaker culture had plowed their fields here, before the tradition of building large burial chambers from boulders arose. Food and drink were brought to the deceased in funnel beakers. This burial rite lasted only 500 years. Subsequent cultures progressed to single burials under burial mounds, and urn burials emerged in the Bronze Age.

In the Viking Age, many megalithic tombs finally disappeared completely, as the emerging Christianity was very interested in destroying pagan places of worship and building churches with the stones. The graves were forgotten. In 1660 an attempt was made to interpret the graves. It was clear to researchers at the time that these megalithic tombs could only have been built by giants who had come from Scandinavia. Only 30 years later, the Danish pastor Troels Arnkiel ventured a more realistic interpretation. It was he who detailed the tombs here and recorded them as burial places of pagan cultures. In later years, this long bed was finally removed. However, thanks to Arnkiel's advanced records, the 70-meter-long tomb has been accurately reconstructed.

In the vicinity of the megalithic tomb there are other burial sites in the form of burial mounds. In an information pavilion you can find out all sorts of interesting facts about the graves and the cultures that built them. The entire site is freely accessible at all times.