🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Goseck Circle
Early Neolithic · Stichbandkeramik / Stroke-Ornamented ware
4900 BCE circular ditch and double timber palisade with solstice gates — Europe's oldest solar observatory.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Lohra Gallery Grave
Late Neolithic · Wartberg
Wartberg culture gallery grave (c. 3000 BCE) at Lohra, Hesse, 20 m long gallery with sandstone orthostats, perforated door-stone and collective burials for ~20 individuals.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Altendorf Gallery Grave — Naumburg
Late Neolithic (Wartberg culture, 3400–2800 BCE) · Wartberg (Funnel Beaker–Wartberg late group)
The Altendorf grave (Wartberg culture, late Neolithic c.3400–3000 BCE), on the Altenburg ridge near Naumburg 24 km southwest of Kassel, was a 17-m gallery grave chamber 17.5 m long inside a 17 × 5 m…
🇩🇪 Germany · Earthwork
Goseck Circle – Neolithic Solar Observatory
Middle Neolithic, STK (4900 BCE) · Central European Neolithic (Stichbandkeramik/Stroke-Ornamented)
4900 BCE double ditch-palisade circle with winter solstice gates—Europe's oldest solar observatory.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Hünengrab Nobbin on Rügen
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Funnel Beaker (TRB) extended dolmen (c. 3500–2800 BCE) at Nobbin, Rügen Island, 30 m trapezoid enclosure with guard stones, chamber with 3 capstones and Neolithic depositions.