Top 20 Natural Monuments around Lohne

great moorland landscape, a must-see

You reach the grave via the road between Steinfeld (Oldenburg) and Damme, Dammer Straße. From here you turn east into Eichenallee. The extension of Eichenallee leads southeast into the forest. After about 300 meters you will see the megalithic tomb on the right, about 30 meters south of the path. It is also known as Stappenberg. Source: https://tw.strahlen.org/praehistorie/niedersachsen/damme3.html

Neolithic era At the end of the second settlement phase of Hüde I - around 3300 to 3200 BC. BC - people from a different culture built the moorland settlement Hunte 1 on a slightly rising hill on the Hunte, which flows north of the Dümmer. This place was discovered in 1934 when the Hunte was being straightened and was systematically excavated between 1938 and 1940 by Hans Reinerth, then head of the Reich Office for Prehistory. In 2000, the excavation documents and found material scattered during the Second World War were reassembled and scientifically evaluated as part of a research project at the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.

Paleolithic era The oldest human presence on the Dümmer so far is proven by a harpoon tip that was fished out of the Dümmer in 1887. It was made by people of the Paleolithic period who hunted the reindeer in the Dümmer lowlands in the then treeless tundra of the Bölling Interstadial of the Vistula Ice Age 15,000 years ago. With the rise in temperatures around 12,000 years ago, nature changed on the Dümmer: birch and pine forests expanded, more hardwoods were added, and large and small game became native - an ideal basis for life for the people of the Mesolithic. A barbed tip, perhaps a harpoon tip - found near Lemförde in 1973 - confirms the presence of these Mesolithic people as early as the end of the Vistula Ice Age, because using the C14 method the tip was dated to 11,000 years before our time.

Creation of the Dümmersedit The Dümmer formed around 12,000 years ago and has a similar origin story to the Steinhuder Meer: Until now, it was assumed that the Dümmer was a deflation trough. However, the surrounding sands (dunes) are not sufficient to interpret the formation as a deflation trough. It is now assumed that the Dümmer lake basin was formed by the formation of ice lenses during the Vistula glaciation. The glaciation of this last ice age did not extend into this region, but the landscape was periglacial, i.e. formed as a cold steppe. This ice lens theory was arrived at through studies of the periglacial area in Canada. However, this phenomenon should not be confused with the so-called pingos.

The Dümmer, also referred to as Dümmer Lake on official signposts, is a 12.4 km² large and up to 1.4 m deep lake in the west of the northern German lowlands in the Diepholz district of Lower Saxony (Germany). It lies in the triangle between the towns and cities of Lemförde, Damme and Diepholz and is traversed by the Hunte.

Dümmer is the name of a former nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipalities of Lembruch and Hüde in the Altes Amt Lemförde municipality in the Diepholz district, the town of Damme in the Vechta district and the municipality of Bohmte in the Osnabrück district.

The Moorweg im Aschener Moor, abbreviated Pr VI in technical language, is a prehistoric moor path originally 4.2 km long, which runs in the Aschener Moor west of Aschen in the Diepholz district of Lower Saxony. It was created in the pre-Roman Iron Age, probably around 46 BC. BC and is one of the longest boardwalks in northwest Germany.[1] The path construction has been preserved to this day due to the favorable conditions for preserving organic material in the moor. Large parts of the path have been destroyed due to mechanical peat mining up to the present day. In the center of the moor, an approximately 350 meter long remaining piece of untouched moorland remains permanently preserved. At its edge, a 950 m long barrier-free footbridge with a viewing platform, built between 2019 and 2021, runs along the course of the former moor path. It is intended to make the prehistoric moor path and the moor tangible for tourists.