<< Our Photo Pages >> Langen Dolmen - Chambered Tomb in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Langen Dolmen Alternative Name: RitzerbergCountry: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Bremerhaven Nearest Village: Langen
Latitude: 53.598052N Longitude: 8.596963E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 6th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 Located right in town, the setting is rather unusual for this megalithic tomb. Nevertheless, I was pleased to finally be able to visit it.
Klingon visited on 22nd Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4
johnstone visited on 15th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 2.33 Access: 4.67
These site is situated in a small park area surrounded by houses right in the city of Langen just north of Bremerhaven. It has its own little street named „Am Dolmen“.
According to Krause's and Schoetensack's research in 1894 [1] these are the remains of a chambered tomb. In 1849 a barrow named „Ritzerberg“ was removed and the chamber was found and destroyed except for these 5 stones. They also reported, that in 1884 the tomb was partly rebuilt as the capstone was fallen and some orthostats were out of place then. Hence what we see today is far from being true to original. Therefore Sprockhoff and Sophus Müller refused to except it as a megalithic tomb (without a proof from excavation). Anyway it is mentioned in Sprockhoff's „Atlas der Megalithgräber“.
Nevertheless it is a very nice view and looks like a typical dolmen now (although it is not). Most probably only one of the 4 uprights is in situ.
Reference:
[1] Sprockhoff, Ernst (et al.) – Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands – Teil 3 Niedersachsen - Westfalen, Habelt, Bonn, 1975, Textband p. 4
[2] Sprockhoff, E., Siebs, B.E. - Die Großsteingräber des Elb-Weser-Winkels, Bremerhaven 1957
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