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<< Our Photo Pages >> Zwölf Apostel - Stone Row / Alignment in Germany in Bavaria

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 08 October 2005  Page Views: 6381

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Zwölf Apostel Alternative Name: 12 Apostel
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 8.516 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Bavaria Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Bad Steben  Nearest Village: Langenbach
Latitude: 50.369490N  Longitude: 11.590260E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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trystan_hughes visited on 6th Aug 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Wonderful views all around... worth a little visit if you are close by :-)

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Zwölf Apostel
Zwölf Apostel submitted by Klingon : (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Row / Alignment in Bavaria

Alignment of 12 stones on side of hill. The stones are NNE-SSW aligned. Approximately set 3000 BC.
zwölf Apostel = twelve apostles
Co-ordinates by GPS.
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Zwölf Apostel
Zwölf Apostel submitted by Klingon (Vote or comment on this photo)

Zwölf Apostel
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Zwölf Apostel
Zwölf Apostel submitted by Flickr : Die 12 Apostel Megalithische Steinreihe "Die 12 Apostel" im Frankenwald. Megalithic stone row "The 12 Apostles" Image copyright: Regina_Hoer, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Zwölf Apostel by ModernExplorers on Wednesday, 02 January 2019
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We visited this site during our tour of German megaliths in the summer of 2018 - take a look for some video footage of this site and numerous other that we visited

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Re: Zwölf Apostel by Anonymous on Wednesday, 02 January 2019
We visited this site during our tour of German megaliths in the summer of 2018 - take a look for some video footage of this site and numerous other that we visited -
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