A stop on the Sky Paths

The reconstructed site, which is now known as the Pömmelte Woodhenge, is part of the Sky Paths archaeological tourism route. This also includes the Arche Nebra, where the Sky Disc was found, and the Goseck solar observatory. Just over 200,000 people have visited the Woodhenge since it opened.

A visitor centre is being built next to the car park, which has turned this area into a building site. Behind the viewing platform, the excavation holes have been filled, because the work at the site is temporarily finished. The area around the Woodhenges in Pömmelte and Schönebeck (where there was a similar site) was home to the largest early Bronze Age settlement in central Europe.

The well-preserved floor plans of more than 140 houses have been identified. In the summer of 2022, the archaeologists made some more astonishing finds. They discovered an oven pit and a row of graves that is more than 4000 years old. "At least 15 full-sized graves from the early Únětice culture are lying in a row like a string of beads," explains the project leader, Dr Franziska Knoll from the State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments and Archaeology in Saxony-Anhalt.

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