Archaeologists have found evidence of ancient dwellings at a Bronze Age site known as the German Stonehenge. Located outside the village of Pömmelte, about 85 miles from Berlin, the lost wooden ringed structure was reconstructed in 2016, and has since become a popular tourist attraction.
“It’s the largest early Bronze Age settlement we know of in central Europe,” University of Halle archaeologist Franziska Knoll told the journal
Archaeology. “This must have been a really significant place.”
Knoll believes that the people who built Pömmelte, also known as Woodhenge, had close ties Stonehenge, and may have even visited the British site.
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Ringheiligtum Pömmelte is a late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age henge monument from the late third millennium BC. The site was discovered in 1991 through aerial photography near the present-day village of Pömmelte in the district Salzlandkreis, in.