Stone Circles at Odry, Poland

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This place is worth a visit. It is the greatest concentration of stone circles in Poland, located in Tuchola forrest (Bory Tucholskie) between the Brda and Wda rivers, about 2.5 km from the kashebe village Odry.

It contains ten completely preserved and two partially damaged stone circles from the 1st and 2nd century.

Today the archaeological and natural reserve is open to the public. Some people believe in bioenergy or source of cosmic energy surrounding this charismatic place.

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Facts about the site: 

Paul Stephan (a geodesist from Poznan, 1915) discovered that some of the stone circles were designed to establish a precise calender and others where part of a huge cementary. Jozef Kostrzewski (Poznan University, 1926) correctly dated the stone circles to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

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"The Odry site is associated with the cultural activities of the peoples who created the Wielbark Culture (German Willenberg-Wielbark Kultur). This archaeological culture, which is attributed to the appearance of Goths and Gepids from Southern Scandinavia, emerged during the early years of the 1st century AD in what are now Eastern Pomerania and the Lower Vistula. They also created several other stone circle sites, including Wesiory, Grzybnica, and Lesno. In the first half of the 3rd century, the people of the Wielbark culture abandoned their settlements in Eastern Pomerania and
migrated or expanded eastwards and southwards." (www.astronomicalheritage.org)

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