ラストドルフでの周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

The Hoogen Steener are among the tombs located along the "Road of Megalithic Culture." For more information about this, or just to get some insight, visit strassedermegalithkultur.de. The tourist information office in Werlte also has an information flyer with a map of many of the stone tombs. Finds from this period can be seen in Oldenburg at the "Nature and Man" Museum on the dam (naturundmensch.de), which regularly hosts special exhibitions, or at the Emsland Archaeology Museum (archaeologie-emsland.de) in Meppen.

Very nice and quiet place for a break.

when it gets wet 😊

the small hut on the Kateekerpatt is very inviting and you can have a good time - both inside and outside - protected for a short hiking break

With a length of 29 m and 15 bays, the chamber is considered one of the longest stone tombs in Northern Europe. The state of preservation of the chamber is also great. Most of the 14 capstones are still intact. The entrance on the south side is also easy to locate. On the other hand, only a few stones give a vague idea of the former enclosure. About 150 pieces of sherds were found during excavations, which belong to at least 20 vessels of the funnel beaker culture of the younger Neolithic. Like the flint tools that were also discovered, they are in the State Museum in Hanover. "De hoogen Steener" can be reached from Werlte via the Rastdorfer Straße (K146) towards Rastdorf or the Loruper Straße (L30) towards Lorup. There is parking directly at the burial mound. These megalithic tombs are part of the Route of Megalithic Culture (SMK). See also Station 20b: Polden Hünensteine

With the bike and dogs on the way. Nice change for humans and dogs

This is one of the best preserved large stone graves here in the region. A visit is always worthwhile. What did the ancestors do 2000 or 3000 years ago? I am always amazed that there are simply no incisions, which is what more intolerable people today manage with their cordless tools :-( --- But in the last few centuries, a lot of large stone graves have also been destroyed in order to clear arable land and the foundations of the streets and support churches. Unfortunately, we only see a small remainder of what was originally a much larger number of large stone graves.

I always find it impressive to see stone graves like this and this one was quite long, 27 meters if I remember correctly and is said to be the longest in the Nordic district. A bench invites you to linger and an information board reveals a few facts.