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[1]. By the 3rd century AD, the settlement supported approximately 300 inhabitants, 450 cattle, and 26 timber longhouse farmsteads[2]. Settlers used dung and mud to gradually raise the settlement into a mound shape, creating a wierde to withstand flooding[2].