  This paper summarises the results of our research on macroscopic entanglement
in spin systems and free Bosonic gases. We explain how entanglement can be
observed using entanglement witnesses which are themselves constructed within
the framework of thermodynamics and thus macroscopic observables. These
thermodynamical entanglement witnesses result in bounds on macroscopic
parameters of the system, such as the temperature, the energy or the
susceptibility, below which entanglement must be present. The derived bounds
indicate a relationship between the occurrence of entanglement and the
establishment of order, possibly resulting in phase transition phenomena. We
give a short overview over the concepts developed in condensed matter physics
to capture the characteristics of phase transitions in particular in terms of
order and correlation functions. Finally we want to ask and speculate whether
entanglement could be a generalised order concept by itself, relevant in
(quantum induced) phase transitions such as BEC, and that taking this view may
help us to understand the underlying process of high-T superconductivity.
