Pyramids in Germany?
The less informed layman and even the expert may be surprised by this fact, but there are good reasons to believe in German pyramids. The archaeological outcome offers only one conclusion. They are the biggest monuments of the Megalith-culture on the continent. Their size even exceeds all the stony step-pyramids of Brittany. There they are called "cairns" - prehistoric grave-houses and step-pyramids built in stone without mortar including one or several burial-chambers like dolmens or vaults of corbel-stone. The most famous example is the "Cairn of Barnenez" in Brittany,France.
Cairns in Europe
Cairns are common in Great Britain with the same designation. Generally the spreading of this megalithic tombs (mega = big, lith = stone) reaches from northern Africa, the Balearic Islands, over Spain, France, Great Britain, Scandinavia, northern Germany and the northern Switzerland to Poland. Only here in southern Germany there is a blank in the map of dissemination.
It is said that in Carnac, Brittany is the biggest megalith-monument, conventionally dated in the time about 4000 B. C.: the cairn Mont St. Michel. Now you can find place-names in southern Germany which give a hint or indication of cairns, f. e. Kirnach in the black forest near Villingen-Schwenningen with one of the biggest mounds of the Celts in Germany (diameter 100 m, height 6 m). It is built of earth and has a stony core with a central burial chamber of oak tree baulks.
The spreading of the German cairns-step pyramids
But here in southern Germany also is standing the highest stone-step pyramid of the continent, one of several others which have been discovered in 1990 by Walter Haug. They are wide-spread in the Sternenfels district, south of a village named Kürnbach, half way between Karlsruhe at the river Rhine, in the surroundings of a small town named Bretten. And they are very similar to the Brittanic and British cairns. They are grouped to complete nekropoles, f. e. the stone-mounds of Schmie nearby the famous and best-preserved monastery north of the alps: Maulbronn.
Contact: Walter Haug mail: walha1a@aol.de
Wössinger Str. 100 D-75045 Walzbachtal 07203/6278
website: www.sinossevis.de and www.megalith-pyramiden.de
