🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Kalkriese
Kalkriese is a village now administratively part of the city of Bramsche in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Alte Burg (Bad Münstereifel)
The Alte Burg (also Alte Burg im Quecken or Alte Burg "am Quecken") in Bad Münstereifel, Germany, is a circular rampart that is the remains of a fortification from the Carolingian period.
🇩🇪 Germany · Cave
Baumann's Cave
Baumann's Cave (German: Baumannshöhle), located nearby Hermann's Cave, is a show cave in Rübeland in the district of Harz and is Germany's oldest show cave.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Fraubillen cross
The Fraubillen cross (German: Fraubillenkreuz) is a menhir, which has been resculpted into a cross.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Gegensteine
The Gegensteine (German: [ˈɡeːɡənˌʃtaɪ̯nə]; literally "Counter-Stones" or "Opposing Stones") are two striking, free-standing rock pinnacles rising dramatically from the gentle, undulating landscape…
🇩🇪 Germany · Cave
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
The Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura are a collection of six caves in southern Germany which were used by Ice Age humans for shelter about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Federsee
Federsee is a lake located just north of Bad Buchau in the region of Upper Swabia in Southern Germany. It is surrounded by moorland, partially overgrown with reeds.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Hitzacker Archaeological Centre
The Hitzacker Archaeological Centre (German: Archäologisches Zentrum Hitzacker) is an archaeological open-air museum in Hitzacker in the German state of Lower Saxony.
🇩🇪 Germany · Tumulus
Frankleben hoard
The Frankleben hoard is a significant hoard deposit of the European Bronze Age, associated with the Unstrut group (itself associated with the Tumulus or early Urnfield culture (ca. 1500–1250 BC)).
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Babilonie
The Babilonie is a hillfort of the La Tène culture at a height of 255.6 metres above sea level on the northern edge of a rounded hill in the Wiehen Hills above the Lübbecke village of Obermehnen in…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Arch of Dativius Victor
Ancient Rome
The Arch of Dativius Victor in Mainz is one of the most important reconstructed Roman monuments in Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Temple complex
Arnsburg Abbey
Arnsburg Abbey (German: Kloster Arnsburg) is a former Cistercian monastery near Lich in the Wetterau, Hesse, Germany. It was founded by monks from Eberbach Abbey in 1174.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum
The Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum (German: Archäologische Freilichtmuseum Groß Raden) lies a few kilometres north of the small town of Sternberg and about a kilometre northeast of the…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Eifel Aqueduct
The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres (59 mi) from the hilly Eifel region of what is now…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Kalkrieser Berg
Germanic people
The Kalkrieser Berg (also called the Schmittenhöhe) is a hill, 157 m high, between the villages of Venne and Engter in the district of Osnabrück.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Herxheim (archaeological site)
The archaeological site of Herxheim, located in the municipality of Herxheim in southwest Germany, was a ritual center and a mass grave formed by people of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in…
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations in Schleswig-Holstein, Rungholt, Germany is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Langweiler (archaeological site)
Langweiler (German pronunciation: [ˈlaŋvaɪlɐ] ) is an archaeological site situated in the Merzbach Valley on the Aldenhovener Plateau of western Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Breitenbach (archaeological site)
The archaeological site near the village of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is an important open-air settlement that dates to the period of initial colonization of Europe by anatomically modern…
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Heidenmauer (Palatinate)
The Heidenmauer ("heathen wall") near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a circular rampart or ringwork, two and a half kilometres long, which was…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Eythra
Eythra is a former settlement near Leipzig, Germany. It is archaeologically important because it is one of the sites of Europe's oldest civilisation.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Circular rampart of Burg
The circular rampart of Burg (German: Ringwall von Burg) is a defensive work from the Early Middle Ages period located near the German town of Celle in Lower Saxony.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Glauberg Celtic Oppidum
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt La Tène A) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt/Latenian) — Glauberg horizon
Early Celtic princely oppidum with 350 m avenue, statue-menhir of leaf-crowned warrior and 50 m gold-burial mound, c.450 BCE.