Culture and Places of Interest
Bad Fallingbostel is host to the museum of the Archaeological Working Group (Archäologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft). In the Osterberg Megalith Park large stones are displayed, which were transported from Scandinavia during the ice ages to the region around Bad Fallingbostel.
Other archaeological sights include the Sieben Steinhäuser, a prehistoric burial site with five dolmens, which is around 5,000 years old. There are located on the Bergen-Hohne Training Area (near Ostenholz). There is also a Bronze Age burial site near the village of Vierde.
Also worth seeing are:
- the spa park (Kurpark)
- the Hof der Heidmark with its Rummelsburg homestead, a Low German house in the Liethwald wood
- the Evangelical Church of St. Dionysius in the town centre
- the Quintus Memorial at St. Dionysius' Church
- the Evangelical St. Martin's Church in Dorfmark
- der village well in Dorfmark
- the Hermann Löns grave in the Tietling juniper grove (Wacholderhain)
- the grave of Erich von Manstein in Dorfmark
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