Archaeological Sites in Germany
City/town/settlement in Germany (22)
Abodiacum
Abodiacum was a Roman road vicus (settlement) in the area of Epfach, part of Denklingen in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The Museum Abodiacum displays 400 years of Roman history with…
Alcimoennis
Alcimoennis or Alkimoennis is the name widely attached to a Celtic Oppidum, or hill fort above the modern town of Kelheim in Bavaria, Germany. The oppidum was located on the…
Breitenbach - Archaeological Site
The archaeological site near the village of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is an important open-air settlement that dates to the period of initial colonization of Europe by…
Epfach
Epfach, known in antiquity as Abodiacum, was a Roman road station in Upper Bavaria at the strategic intersection of the Via Claudia Augusta and the salt road from Salzburg. A…
Heidengraben
Heidengraben ("pagans' moat") is the name given to the remains of a large Celtic fortified settlement (oppidum) dating to the Iron Age, located on the plateau of the Swabian Jura…
Heidetrank Oppidum
The Heidetrank Oppidum near Oberursel in the Taunus mountains is one of Europe's most important Celtic oppida, dating to the late La Tene period. Enclosed by a 10 km rampart with…
Herxheim - Archaeological Site
The archaeological site of Herxheim was a ritual center and a mass grave formed by people of the Linear Pottery culture in Neolithic Europe. The site dates from between 5300 and…
Hundersingen
(600–400 BC) Hundersingen is a village within the municipality of Herbertingen in the administrative district of Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The settlement lies on…
Kalkriese
The Kalkrieser Berg or Schmittenhöhe is considered by archaeologists to be the likely site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans' saltus Teutoburgiensis (Teutoburg…
Königsaue
Königsaue is also a middle palaeolithic find spot. It dates to about 80.000 BP. Three settlement layers can be distinguished, separated by limnic sediments. Ca. 6000 flints have…
Langweiler - Archaeological Site
Langweiler is an archaeological site situated in the Merzbach Valley on the Aldenhovener Plateau of western Germany. Systematic excavations have revealed evidence of 160 houses…
Menosgada
Menosgada was a Celtic metropolis on the Upper Main that was mentioned by the Greek geographer, Ptolemy. It was probably located on the hill known today as the Staffelberg. In the…
Navalia
Navalia is a town (polis or oppidum) that was mentioned by Claudius Ptolemaeus in his Geographia. The town has recently been associated with Essen. The name translates from Latin…
Niederstotzingen
The region around Niederstotzingen has been inhabited since pre-historic times. A Celtic Viereckschanze or "four-sided earthworks" has been discovered near modern…
Oppidum of Manching
The Oppidum of Manching was a large Celtic proto-urban or city-like settlement at modern-day Manching, near Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany. The Iron Age town was founded in the…
Oppidum Steinsburg
The Oppidum Steinsburg is the remains of a major Celtic fortified settlement on the Kleiner Gleichberg in South Thuringia, Germany. Dating to approximately 2,500 years ago, it…
Passau
Passau was an ancient Roman colony called Batavis, Latin for "for the Batavi". Batavis (Passau-Altstadt) was a Roman castrum in the province of Raetia, while another late Roman…
Regensburg
The first settlements in the Regensburg area date from the Stone Age. The oldest Celtic name given to a settlement near Regensburg was Radasbona, a site where a Roman fort was…
Stockdorf
Stockdorf is the largest district in the municipality of Gauting in Upper Bavaria, Germany, situated along the Wurm River. Settlements in the area trace back to the early Bronze…
Treva
Treva is the historical name of a Roman-era settlement first recorded by Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. Under Augustus, Roman forces reached the Elbe.
Türkenfeld
Turkenfeld is a municipality in the district of Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, located about 37 km west of Munich. The area shows evidence of continuous human habitation from the…
Vicus Wareswald
Vicus Wareswald is a Gallo-Roman settlement in the Wareswald Wood in northern Saarland, Germany, situated at the crossroads of two important trade routes. Founded in the 1st…
Fortification in Germany (9)
Alb Limes
The Alb Limes is a Roman frontier fortification or limes of the late 1st century AD in the Swabian Jura, also known as the Swabian Alb. The Alb Limes runs for just under 135…
Amelungsburg, Süntel
The Amelungsburg is a former ringfort that is located on the Amelungsberg hill on the Süntel ridge in the district of Hameln-Pyrmont in the German state of Lower Saxony. The site…
Babilonie
The Babilonie is a hillfort of the La Tène culture at a height of 255.6 metres above sea level on the northern edge of a rounded hill in the Wiehen Hills above the Lübbecke…
Glauberg
The Glauberg, a ridge on the east edge of the Wetterau plain, is a basalt spur of the Vogelsberg range. The discovery of a fragment of an early La Tène torc in 1906 confirmed the…
Heiligenberg, Heidelberg
The Heiligenberg is a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg. Archaeological investigations have taken place there several times since 1881,…
Heunischenburg
The Heunischenburg is a stone fortification of the late Urnfield period near the Upper Franconian town of Kronach in Germany. Its heyday was in the 9th century BC, making it the…
Ipf Mountain
The Ipf is a mostly treeless mountain (668 metres (2,192 ft) high), near Bopfingen, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a prehistoric hill fort on its top. The fort is…
Limes Germanicus
The Limes Germanicus, or 'Germanic Limes', is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior,…
Milseburg
The Milseburg is an extinct volcano and at 835 metres above sea level the second highest elevation in the Hessian part of the Rhön Mountains, Germany. The hill is located east of…
Dolmen in Germany (7)
Dohnsen, Siddernhausen - Dolmen
The dolmen on a low elevation between the villages of Dohnsen and Siddernhausen near the town of Bergen in North Germany, was originally 500 m further north. It was excavated in…
Goldbusch
The Goldbusch is a great dolmen that lies between Altensien and Moritzdorf on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. The megalithic tomb with Sprockhoff No. 508 was built between…
Great Dolmen of Dwasieden
The Great Dolmen of Dwasieden (German: Großdolmen von Dwasieden) is a megalithic tomb in the borough of Sassnitz on Rügen, Germany's largest island. Built by the Funnelbeaker…
Harhoog
The Harhoog is a dolmen, a rectangular megalithic tomb from the Funnelbeaker culture, located near Keitum on the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein. The megalithic Harhoog…
Lancken - Granitz Dolmens
The Lancken-Granitz dolmens are a group of seven megalith tombs in the Lancken-Granitz municipality on Rügen, northern Germany. Erected during the middle Neolithic, when they were…
Sieben Steinhäuser
The Sieben Steinhäuser also Siebensteinhäuser is a group of five dolmens on the Lüneburg Heath in the NATO training area of Bergen-Hohne, in the state of Lower Saxony in northern…
Züschen - Megalithic Tomb
The Züschen tomb (Steinkammergrab von Züschen) is a Late Neolithic burial monument near Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany. It is classified as a gallery grave or Hessian-Westphalian stone…
Fortress/citadel in Germany (6)
Alte Burg, Langenenslingen
Alte Burg is a large Celtic hilltop fortification, or hillfort, that may have been used as a cult or assembly site for the regional population. It is located 9 kilometers from a…
Am Forsthofweg
The castellum or small fort nowadays called Am Forsthofweg was a Roman military camp of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. It received UNESCO World Heritage status in 2005. The…
Biriciana
The Roman fort at Weissenburg, called Biriciana in ancient times, is a former Roman ala castellum, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located near the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian…
Flevum
Flevum was a Roman castrum and naval base in Frisia, identified with modern Velsen in the Netherlands, controlling the Oer-IJ, the northernmost outlet of the Rhine. Flevum I was…
Heuneburg
The Heuneburg is a prehistoric Celtic hillfort by the river Danube in Hundersingen near Herbertingen, between Ulm and Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, in the south of Germany. It…
Pfünz Roman Fort
Pfünz Roman Fort, Castra Vetoniana or Vetonianae, was a Roman cohort camp near Pfünz, a village in the municipality of Walting in the county of Eichstätt, Bavaria. Of historical…
Mound/tumulus in Germany (6)
Benther Berg
The Benther Berg is a ridge, up to 173.3 m above sea level, in the Calenberg Land near Benthe in Hanover Region in the German state of Lower Saxony. The Benther Berg is about 3.5…
Dobberworth
The Dobberworth or Dubberworth is one of the largest prehistoric tumuli in northern Germany, located on the isle of Rügen near Sagard. The Dubberworth is about 15 metres tall, and…
Gilching
Gilching is a municipality in the Starnberg district of Bavaria, Germany, 22 km west of Munich, with archaeological evidence stretching back to the Bronze Age. Celtic tumuli and…
Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave
The Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave is a richly-furnished Celtic burial chamber near Hochdorf an der Enz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, dating from 530 BC in the Hallstatt culture…
Leubingen Tumulus
The Leubingen tumulus is an Early Bronze Age "princely" grave of the Leubingen culture dating to about 1940 BC. It is located near the hills of Kyffhäuser in Leubingen. The site…
Magdalenenberg
Magdalenenberg is the name of an Iron Age tumulus near the city of Villingen-Schwenningen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is considered the largest tumulus from the Hallstatt…
Earthwork in Germany (4)
Danube - Iller - Rhine Limes
The Danube-Iller-Rhine Limes (DIRL) was a large-scale Late Roman defensive system built after the abandonment of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in the late 3rd century CE.…
Danubian Limes
The Danubian Limes (Donaulimes) refers to the Roman military frontier along the River Danube, stretching across modern Bavaria, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia,…
Goloring
The Goloring is an ancient earthworks monument located near Koblenz. The Goloring consists of a circular ditch of 175 metres in diameter with an outside embankment extending to…
Main Limes
The Main Limes, also called the Nasser Limes, was built around 90 AD and, as part of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, formed the frontier of the Roman Empire in the area between…
Tomb in Germany (4)
Altendorf Megalithic Tomb
The Altendorf tomb was an important megalithic tomb at Altenburg near Naumburg, northern Hesse, Germany. It was a gallery grave belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture.…
Hartberg Megalithic Tomb
The Hartberg megalithic tomb is an archaeological site of the late Neolithic Age, near Schankweiler and about 10 kilometres south-west of Bitburg, in Rhineland-Palatinate,…
Niedertiefenbach - Megalithic Tomb
The Niedertiefenbach tomb (Steinkistengrab von Niedertiefenbach) is a gallery grave located near the village of Niedertiefenbach in Hesse, Germany. Belonging to the Wartberg…
Schalkholz Passage Grave
The Schalkholz Passage Grave, also known as Schalkholz-Vierth is a megalithic burial site of the Neolithic period and of the Funnelbeaker culture in Vierth, a district of…
Bath in Germany (3)
Barbara Baths
The Barbara Baths are a large Roman bath complex in Augusta Treverorum, modern-day Trier. Stretching over 42,000 square meters, it is the largest Roman bath north of the Alps. The…
Forum Baths, Trier
The Forum Baths of Trier are a ruin of a Roman bath complex in Augusta Treverorum, modern-day Trier. The Forum Baths remained in use through the end of the fourth century. But the…
Trier Imperial Baths
The Trier Imperial Baths (German: Kaiserthermen) are a large Roman bath complex in Trier. However, the baths were never completed and were made into a castle in the Middle Ages.…
Castle/palace in Germany (3)
Grasburg, Rottleberode
The Grasburg is a prehistoric refuge castle, in the form of a hillfort with a rampart and ditch system. The Grasburg is located in the wooded area known as Alter Stolberg between…
Schanzenkopf - Spessart
Schanzenkopf is a wooded hill in the Spessart mountains of Bavaria, Germany, located in the district of Aschaffenburg. Rising to 343 meters (1,125 ft) above sea level, it forms…
Syberg
The Syberg is a hill in the Ruhr in the southern part of Dortmund, 240 m above sea level, which is part of the Ardey Hills. The Syberg is part of the Ardey Hills, and was formed…
Cave Structures in Germany (3)
Baumann's Cave
Baumann's Cave (Baumannshohle) in Rubeland, Harz district, is Germany's oldest show cave, formed in Devonian limestone dating back over 350 million years. The cave has been used…
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
The Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura are a collection of six caves in southern Germany which were used by Ice Age humans for shelter about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago.…
Hohlenstein-Stadel
Hohlenstein-Stadel is a cave located in the Hohlenstein cliff (not to be confused with the Hohle Fels) at the southern rim of the Lonetal in the Swabian Jura in Germany. The most…
Megalithic stones in Germany (3)
Fraubillen Cross
The Fraubillen cross (German: Fraubillenkreuz) is a menhir, which has been resculpted into a cross. It stands by a wayside on the Ferschweiler Plateau in the Eifel mountains in…
Riesenstein, Wolfershausen
The Riesenstein is a megalith or menhir, which is situated close to the village of Wolfershausen. It is the largest megalith in the district of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.…
Wotanstein, Hesse
The Wotanstein, also known as 'Wodanstein' or earlier on 'Malstein', is a small megalith or menhir situated close to the village of Maden, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. The…
Museum in Germany (3)
Hitzacker Archaeological Centre
The Hitzacker Archaeological Centre is an archaeological open-air museum in Hitzacker in the German state of Lower Saxony. The core theme of the museum is the presentation of…
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, featuring reconstructions of Neolithic and Bronze Age…
Schwarzenacker Roman Museum
Römermuseum Schwarzenacker is an archaeological open-air museum in Schwarzenacker, a district of Homburg, Saarland, Germany. The museum was constructed by archaeologist Alfonso…
Other sites in Germany (32)
Ara Ubiorum
The Ara Ubiorum was a Roman sanctuary in the Oppidum Ubiorum (modern Cologne, Germany), erected in the last decade of the 1st century BC and dedicated to the goddess Roma and the…
Basilica of Constantine
The Aula Palatina, also called Basilica of Constantine, at Trier, Germany, is a Roman palace basilica and an early Christian structure built between AD 300 and 310 during the…
Battle at the Harzhorn
The Battle at the Harzhorn took place in the early 3rd century between Germanic and Roman troops near the Harzhorn hill between the towns of Kalefeld and Bad Gandersheim, in the…
Bonstorf Barrows
The Bonstorf Barrows are the remains of a much larger barrow cemetery on the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. They are located…
Drususstein
The Drususstein is a nearly 20-metre-high masonry block of Roman origin in the grounds of the citadel of Mainz. It was originally cased in marble. Researchers now largely accept…
Eifel Aqueduct
The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres from the hilly Eifel region of what…
Emilianus - Stollen
The Emilianus-Stollen is a Roman copper mine in the St Barbara district of Wallerfangen, Saarland, Germany, active during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Romans extracted azurite to…
Feddersen Wierde
Feddersen Wierde is a former Iron Age wierde settlement on marshland along the Weser estuary, 14 km north of Bremerhaven, Germany, inhabited from the 1st to 5th centuries AD. By…
Federsee
Federsee is a lake located just north of Bad Buchau in the region of Upper Swabia in Southern Germany. It is surrounded by moorland, partially overgrown with reeds. With a size of…
Geißkopf, Central Black Forest
The Geißkopf is a foothill, 359 metres above sea level (NHN), near Berghaupten in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. During the Migration Period (4th-5th century AD), a Roman or Germanic…
Goseck Circle
The Goseck Circle is a Neolithic circular enclosure in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, radiocarbon dated to approximately 4900 BC, making it one of the oldest known solar observatories.…
Heidenmauer, Palatinate
The Heidenmauer is a cultural monument according to the protected monument act of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 2004 to 2006, excavations were undertaken by the Speyer Archaeological…
Igel Column
The Igel Column is a multi-storeyed Roman sandstone column in the municipality of Igel, Trier, Germany, dated to c. 250 AD. The column is the burial monument of the Secundinii…
Kalkrieser Berg
The Kalkrieser Berg is a hill, 157 m high, between the villages of Venne and Engter in the district of Osnabrück. The Kalkrieser Berg is a northern bulge of the Wiehen Hills. To…
Katzenberg Hillfort
Katzenberg Hillfort is a Roman refuge fort near Mayen in Germany dating to the 4th century. The fortification on the Katzenberg hill was built around 300 AD after the Roman limes…
Kriemhildenstuhl
The Kriemhildenstuhl lies left of the small river of the Isenach northwest of Bad Dürkheim at a height of 250 metres above sea level on the southeastern hillside of the…
Lohra Megalithic Tomb
The Lohra tomb was a megalithic monument outside Lohra near Marburg in north central Hesse, Germany. It is one of the lesser known among its type in Central Europe. It dates to…
Megalithic Tombs in Haldensleben Forest
The Megalithic tombs in Haldensleben Forest are a group of more than 80 megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Age, near Haldensleben, about 22 kilometres north-west of Magdeburg, in…
Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were erected as burial sites in the Neolithic, by the bearers of the Funnelbeaker (TRB) culture, between 3,500 and 3,200 BC. 144 megaliths…
Nobbin
Nobbin is best known for the megalithic tomb known as the Riesenberg (also Großsteingrab Riesenberg). The tomb was constructed of glacial erratic boulders and dates back to the…
Oldendorfer Totenstatt
The Oldendorfer Totenstatt is a group of six burial mounds and megalith sites in Oldendorf north of Amelinghausen in the valley of the River Luhe in Lüneburg district in the…
Porta Nigra
The Porta Nigra, referred to by locals as the Porta, is a large Roman city gate in Trier. The name Porta Nigra originated in the Middle Ages due to the darkened colour of its…
Roman Bridge, Trier
The Roman Bridge (Römerbrücke) spans the Moselle in Trier, Germany. Its nine stone pillars date to the 2nd century AD, replacing wooden predecessors from at least 17 BC. It is…
Roman Theatre, Mainz
The Roman Theatre in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate was excavated in the late 1990s. It is located immediately next to the Mainz Römisches Theater station and was once the largest…
Roman Villa Borg
The Roman Villa Borg is a reconstructed Roman villa rustica located near the villages of Borg and Oberleuken in the municipality of Perl in Saarland, Germany. Discovered at the…
Route of Megalithic Culture
The Route of Megalithic Culture was first created as a tourist route that meanders from Osnabrück to Oldenburg in North-West Germany. Signposted with brown road signs it links…
Schanzenkopf - Schwedenschanze
Schanzenkopf (Schwedenschanze) is a wooded hill in the Aschaffenburg district of Bavaria, Germany. It is part of the Mittelgebirge Spessart and lies right on the border with the…
Schöningen Spears
The Schöningen spears are a set of ten Palaeolithic wooden weapons that were excavated between 1994 and 1999 from the 'Spear Horizon' in the open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen,…
Teufelsrutsch
Teufelsrutsch ("Devil's Slide") is a densely wooded porphyry knoll in Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, offering views over the Wiesbach valley. The remains of a…
Teufelsstein, Haardt
The Teufelsstein in the Haardt mountains, near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a hill 317 m above sea level. On its domed…
Thorsberg Moor
Thorsberg Moor is a peat bog in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The site has yielded extraordinary artifacts including the Thorsberg chape—an early Elder Futhark runic inscription.…
Trier Amphitheatre
The Trier Amphitheater is a Roman amphitheater in Trier, Germany. The structure which was dug into the side of a hill was erected around the 2nd century A.D during the rule of…
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