Dolmen Nobbin

The monument is a trapezoidal Hünenbett with two chambers, which are extended dolmens. The chambers were disturbed in 1933 and 1970. The trapezoidal enclosure was originally formed by 53 large kerbstones and is 34 m long and 11 to 8 metres wide; 39 of the stones survive.

Near the edge in the north-west there were two transverse dolmens, one of which is well preserved. It is 1.4 m high, 1.8 m long and 1.1 m wide. Three supporting stones on boulder bases survive, together with three more or less slab-like supporting stones, but no capstone. The entrance, built of slab material, is coaxial and shaped like a draught lobby, a form typical of the large dolmens of Rügen. The second dolmen was built in a similar way, but only one supporting stone remains.

On the south-west side, two guardian stones set in front of the enclosure rise more than three metres. This pair is known as the Wächterpaar von Nobbin. Such stones are also typical of Scandinavian dolmens, and similar ones of comparable size occur at the large dolmen of Dwasieden and at Dummertevitz on Rügen. Guardian stones are rarer in Germany, and their presence here is explained by the proximity of the Danish islands.

The first excavation took place in 1932/1933 under Wilhelm Petzsch and Karl-August Wilde and produced many finds. Excavations in 1970 under Ewald Schuldt recovered Neolithic finds: three transverse arrowheads, a blade, some broken vessels and a few bone fragments, among them two skulls.

In the northern chamber the remains of an urn burial of the 5th century BCE were found. Between the guardian stones came pottery sherds of the Slavic period and an Arabic silver coin of the 9th century. These finds show that the Riesenberg remained significant to the island's inhabitants over thousands of years.