<< Text Pages >> Brodau Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Germany in Saxony
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Brodau WellCountry: 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:
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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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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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