The best-known megaliths in North Rhine-Westphalia
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
Twenty entries, and two clear groups. In the north near Wallenhorst: the Sloopsteine (8 km), Kleine Sloopsteine (6 km) and Großsteingrab Westerkappeln (9 km), with the Großsteingrab von Rheine 2 km from Rheine. In the east, the gallery graves around Paderborn: Atteln I (14 km), Etteln (10 km), Kirchborchen I and II (8 km), plus Brenken 5 km from Büren. The Teufelsteine near Borken and the Bülheimer Großmutter near Marsberg stand apart.
Of the 20 megalithic tombs RLQuest knows in North Rhine-Westphalia, 15 have a Wikipedia article, three in four. Gallery graves are long and low, easy to walk past; RLQuest gives you the point, checks your route against it, and the field tiles around it are yours.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
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