🇩🇪 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 · Archaeological wonder
Goloring
The Goloring is an ancient earthworks monument located near Koblenz, Germany. It was created in the Bronze Age era, which dates back to the Urnfield culture (1200–800 BCE.).
🇩🇪 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 · Archaeological wonder
Battle at the Harzhorn
The Battle at the Harzhorn took place in the early 3rd century between Germanic and Roman troops near the Harzhorn hill between the towns of Kalefeld and Bad Gandersheim, in the state of Lower…
🇩🇪 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
Deister Gate
The Deister Gate (German: Deisterpforte) is a 550-metre-wide gap between the Deister and Kleiner Deister hill ridges in Springe in Hanover Region, Lower Saxony, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Großer Waldstein
The Großer Waldstein is part of the Waldstein range in the Fichtel Mountains of Germany. It is known primarily for its rock formations caused by spheroidal weathering, its ruined castles and the only…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Great Dolmen of Dwasieden
The Great dolmen of Dwasieden (German: Großdolmen von Dwasieden), is a great dolmen in the borough of Sassnitz, on the Jasmund peninsula of Germany's largest island, Rügen.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Alexanderschanze
The Alexanderschanze (Alexander's Redoubt) is a mountain pass, 970.8 m above sea level (NHN), on the B 28 federal road at Freudenstadt in the Northern Black Forest in southern 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 · Fortress
Asseburg (castle)
The Asseburg is a ruined hill castle on the narrow, southern crest of the Asse ridge in the Harz Mountains of Germany, not far from Wolfenbüttel.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest
The Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest (German: Barocke Verteidigungsanlagen im Schwarzwald), also called Baroque Schanzen (Barockschanzen) or Black Forest lines (Schwarzwaldlinien), are…
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Blankenhagen Castle
Blankenhagen Castle (German: Burg Blankenhagen) was a lowland castle (Niederungsburg), whose ruins are located by the River Aller near Grethem in Lower Saxony, 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 · 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 · Megalith
Dohnsen-Siddernhausen Dolmen
The dolmen (German: Großsteingrab) on a low elevation between the villages of Dohnsen and Siddernhausen near the town of Bergen in North Germany, was originally 500 m further north.
🇩🇪 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
Eremitage Maria Reizenborn
The Eremitage Maria Reizenborn, or Räzebore, is a former hermitage in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Hunsrück mountain range).
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Felsburg
Felsburg is a partial ruin of a hill castle situated in Felsberg on the Eder River in the Schwalm-Eder district of North Hesse, Germany.
🇩🇪 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 · Megalith
Fraubillen cross
The Fraubillen cross (German: Fraubillenkreuz) is a menhir, which has been resculpted into a cross.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Harhoog
The Harhoog is a dolmen, a rectangular megalithic tomb from the Funnelbeaker culture, located near Keitum on the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Heidetrank Oppidum
The Heidetränk Oppidum near Oberursel in the Taunus in Germany is one of Europe's most important Celtic oppida.
🇩🇪 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…