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Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) is a federal state in northwestern Germany, with Hanover as its capital. It is the second-largest German state by area, after Bavaria. The landscape stretches from the North Sea coast and the East Frisian Islands to the Lüneburg Heath and the Harz Mountains. Lower Saxony is an important industrial region, particularly in the automotive sector (e.g., Volkswagen in Wolfsburg), as well as in agriculture and energy. Culturally, castles, Hanseatic towns, traditional festivals, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the Rammelsberg Mine and the Fagus Factory shape the state.
If you travel to the large and long graves of the road of megalithic culture between Osnabrück and Oldenburg, there is a very special Early Stone Age construction near Hüven in Emsland: the Volbers Hünensteine (also called Hüven-Nord with the Sprockhoff no. 842).
From Oldenburg to Osnabrück, the route of megalithic culture in Emsland runs around 330 kilometers to 33 well-preserved Neolithic burial sites that were built around 5000 years ago.
Anyone who deals with Stone Age buildings may first think of England's world-famous stone circle called Stonehenge. But also individually standing menhirs (Celtic/large stone), rows of stones (French/alignements), cromlechs (Welsh/curvature) and dolmens (Breton/stone table) are well-known designations for buildings whose age is estimated at 3000 to 5000 years.