"Männige Berge"

The "Männige Berge" (Manly Mountains) are a tumulus burial ground that originated between 1300 BC and the turn of the century - during the Younger Bronze Age and the Pre-Roman Iron Age - north of Spahn on the Hümmling in Lower Saxony. "Männige Berge" they are called because of their large number, or because of the formerly widespread idea that "Männeken" or dwarfs lived in them.

The Männige Berge are located in the heath on a burial ground overgrown with individual pines and birches, which still has 61 easily recognizable burial mounds. Soil discolorations on the farmland indicate that the cemetery was originally much larger. Besides more inconspicuous mounds, there are also those over two meters high.

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