Blue Goose

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Blue Goose
North side

North side
Blue Goose (Saxony-Anhalt)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 51 ° 47 '47.5 "  N , 11 ° 29' 52"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '47.5 "  N , 11 ° 29' 52"  E
place Aschersleben , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany

The blue goose is a menhir near Aschersleben in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The menhir is registered as a ground monument both in the local monument register of Aschersleben and in the local monument register of Giersleben .

Location and description

The stone is located about 4 km north of Aschersleben. Today it stands there, surrounded by a tree, in the middle of a wind farm . In 1945 he fell over while trying to get rid of it. Waldtraut Schrickel found him in the 1950s. Meanwhile he was raised again. Another menhir is located 5.6 km south: the bacon side .

The menhir consists of lignite quartzite . Its height is 184 cm, the width 188 cm and the depth 60 cm. It has the shape of an irregular plate and has a few nails on the broad sides.

Finds from around the stone come from the Linear Pottery , the Baalberge group , the Bernburg Culture , the Corded Ware culture , the Bell Beaker Culture , the Unetice culture , the full Bronze Age , the La Tène period and from the Middle Ages .

The name "blue goose" could indicate that the menhir served as a place of justice in the Middle Ages, as the term "blue stones" is often found for court stones.

literature

  • Heinrich Becker: The bacon side at Aschersleben. In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity. Volume 22, 1889, pp. 390-391 ( online ).
  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 411, 444.
  • Horst Kirchner : The menhirs in Central Europe and the menhir thought. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Treatises of the Humanities and Social Sciences Class, born in 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 177.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, pp. 16-17.
  • Erhard Schröter : soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 66.
  • Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, pp. 80–81.

Web links

Commons : Blue Goose  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ↑ a b c Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 444.
  3. ↑ a b Waldtraut Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Pp. 16-17.