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<< Text Pages >> Brodau Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Germany in Saxony

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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Brodau Well
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 4.392 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Saxony Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Leipzig  Nearest Village: Brodau
Latitude: 51.491494N  Longitude: 12.325898E
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Saxony

Another prehistoric well was found near Brodau. It is also around 7000 years old (dendrochronology of the wooden timbers). It was not as well preserved as the Altscherbitz well.
Its creators are probably some of the earliest known carpenters.

for more information:

Daily Mail - 7-000 year-old German wells reveal earliest known wood construction

University of Freiburg

Link to download a PDF of the paper from Plos-One

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