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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Paschberg Alternative Name: Osterberg
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 6.806 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Stade Nearest Village: Agathenburg
Latitude: 53.557310N Longitude: 9.534050E
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
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

3 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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
0	No data.

4 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Round Barrow(s) in Lower Saxony, Bremen

The so-called 'Paschberg' is a Bronze Age tumulus that has had quite an eventful history over the past century. It probably formed one of the largest tumuli in a former barrow cemetery, of which only five other tumuli are preserved today (these can be made out in the forest north and south of the Paschberg and are heavily overgrown and not particularly large). The age of the tumulus is about 3800-3200 years.
Similar to the tumulus near Riensförde near Stade, it was used as an execution site in the more modern times (mostly by hanging).
From the middle of the 18th century, the tumulus was no longer used as an execution site and the villagers of Agathenburg used it as a traditional place for their Easter bonfires. Hence the current name: 'Paschberg', which refers to the Latin word 'paschae' for Easter.
From 1920 the tumulus was used to erect the World War I. and (after 1945) II. memorial monuments. The villagers henceforth celebrated their Easter bonfire on another nearby tumulus (which unfortunately no longer exists today).
For the Paschberg as well as the five other smaller tumuli, an information board was erected by the responsible Stade monument conservators (See my photos - the information from this text has been translated from these panels).

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