Großsteingrab Restrup

The tomb stands in a group of trees near the L73 (Bippener Straße) and lies on the Straße der Megalithkultur. The square rampart around the grave is of recent date.

The chamber is a relatively well preserved Emsland chamber about nine metres long, oriented east to west, with no remains of an enclosure. It lies fairly deep in the mound. Two of the original 14 supporting stones are missing. Of the original five capstones, one is missing, one is broken and another is preserved only as a half and bears clear traces of an attempt to split it. The internal width is about 1.8 m at the outer ends and two metres in the middle. The supporting stones of the middle and largest capstone, in the entrance area, project so far from the line of the others that three zones of different width are formed inside. The northern long side curves slightly inward. The entrance, of which no stones survive, is on the south side.

Directly beside the tomb stands the Teufelsstein or Deuvelstein (devil's stone), also called the Näpfchenstein (cup-marked stone). It is a granite boulder 1.75 m long, 1.15 m wide and 1.1 m high, with 66 cup marks on its domed surface. As with all cup-marked stones, the purpose of the hollows is unknown.

The stone escaped destruction by chance and was examined scientifically in 1956 by Walter Nowothnig (1903-1971). This is one of the rare cases in which archaeological findings were obtained from a cup-marked stone. The stone had been worked to create a sufficient standing surface. Beneath it were found flint cracked by heat, charcoal and bone fragments; anthropological examination could not establish whether the bones were human or animal. After the investigation the stone, originally found a little south of Restrup, was brought to its present position.