At the beaches of Zwischenahner Meer at Dreibergen
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One of the numerous North German legends states that the emergence of the Zwischenahner Meer was a devil's work (Düwelswark).
The present-day university town of Oldenburg used to be the capital of the county, the Duchy, the Grand Duchy, the Free State and the Land of Oldenburg. With more than 160,000 inhabitants, it is one of the four largest cities in Lower Saxony in addition to the similarly sized Osnabrück and the larger cities of Hanover and Brunswick.
Oldenburg is located at an area where the Delmenhorster Geest in the southeast passes into the Oldenburg Geest in the northwest at an altitude of 2-19 meters. To the west of this the wide bogs the Leda-Jümme-Moor region spread, to the east of which the marshes of the lower Hunte follow.
One of the numerous North German legends states that the emergence of the Zwischenahner Meer was a devil's work (Düwelswark).
Our trip to the north had brought us again to the road of megalithic culture, one of the holiday streets in Germany and as such the Lower Saxony section of the "Megalithic Routes".
The “Road of Megalithic Culture” connects Osnabrück and Oldenburg in 33 stations, the most impressive and best preserved Neolithic megalithic tombs of northwest Germany.
Our tour through the north of Germany had led us, next to the visit of the still relatively "young" Museum and Park Kalkriese as the presumed site of the Varus Battle (we will report later) to the Ahlhorner Heide at Wildeshausen next to the local megalithic tombs from the time period between 3500 - 2800 BC.
To the northwest of the Castle, in the center of Oldenburg, the architecturally wonderful building of St. Lambert's Church can be visited that is often referred to holy St. Lamberti.