Weyerberg

The Weyersberg is a 54.4 meters high, consisting of sandy Geest Island in the Devil's Moor in the main settlement in Worpswede Osterholz in Lower Saxony. The name means something like Worpswede wooded hill ( " Worp " = hill, the Churning, " wil " = forest, Hölzung, wood). The Weyersberg was probably built at the end of the Ice Age, when meltwater runoff to its clay core anlagerte sand.

On and around the "mountain" Neolithic traces were found: stone tools and trinkets. From 1100 BC " Over the hill " urn graves were discovered on the southern slope. 500 BC, the "mountain" was abandoned as a settlement area again, as the climate cooled.

1218 Worpswede is first mentioned as the former eight farms the monastery Easter wood tithes were guilty.

On the Weyersberg is the " Lower Stone " by Bernhard Hoetger. In 1957, the Foundation was established Worpswede that attempts by land purchases, to prevent further sand mining on Weyersberg.