this area remained here. They began to en-tomb their dead now in burial grounds. The Pestruper Burial Ground is the only preserved such structure in Europe. It is situated about 800 meters from the river Hunte.500 tombs, different in form and size, are evidence of the settlement that 600 years B.C. buried their urns with the ashes there. For each individual urn a hill would be erected, created with sods of grass. During the examination of the "kings tombs (Königshügel) traces of the earlier stone age. Ritual plough traces from the Bronze Age were discovered. 1100-700 B.C. The 'kings tombs' (Königshügel) consist of burials from different ages (late Bronze Age to pre-Roman Iron Age). The farmers, breeders, hunters and fishermen were contemporaries of "Ötzi" from the ice age. People from Wildeshausen Wigald Boning, German comedian and actor Jacob H. Muckerheide, Wisconsin politician International relations Wildeshausen is twinned with: Hertford, United Kingdom Évron, France References Dominions of Sweden Oldenburg (district)