Langenstein (Waldshut-Tiengen)

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The stone, embedded in the football stadium for over 100 years

The Langenstein or Lange Stein , formerly also called Chindlistai in the dialect , is the southernmost menhir in Germany and is located in Tiengen in the Waldshut district in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg . It has always been known to the population as Langenstein , which is where the name of the Langenstein Stadium comes from . On the Langensteinwiese on the Wutach , FC Tiengen 08 e. V. laid out its first soccer field.

Location and characteristics

Langenstein 2019, after the renaturation

"The 'Lange Stein' (was) set up in the Wutach lowlands at the foot of a diluvial gravel terrace." Above is the Tiengen West entrance and exit of the Bürgerwald tunnel . “The rugged Nagelfluh pillar reaches a height of 5.92 m above the ground. It is almost rectangular at its base and has a circumference of 7.50 m with a largest diameter. of 1.70 m. "Its origin can be" exceptionally precisely localized [...], the mighty stone column consists of diluvial Nagelfluh, which is located just south of the same in the very immediate vicinity. "The transport distance covered" can be better with the 'Long Stone' of Tiengen were less than 50 m. ”The vertical alignment of the pebbles shows that it was erected.

"An old road connection between the Hochrheintal and the Klettgau metropolis of Tiengen passes by at its foot, where the district court in Klettgau once met in the shadow of the raised stone ."

It “is known that he was also popularly called ' Chindlistai '. Unfortunately, we do not know when this name was used. ”Egon Gersbach says, only after the people no longer knew about the original function as a place of jurisdiction.

history

Langenstein 2005, with the old stadium

Brigitte Matt-Willmatt writes in the Chronicle of Lauchringen :

"After the conquest of the land by the Alemanni, these meetings for consultation came together at certain places for the ' thing ', and the free imperial district court also met at these traditional things, the oldest of which was Lange Stein near Tiengen, which was first documented in 1020 [ …] Is known. ”The author does not give a source for the document.

The author was wrong because, according to another reading, Tiengen (then: “Tuoingen”) was mentioned as the location of the Albgau district assembly as early as 855, and the stone would have been “certified for the year 855.” Gersbach mentions sources for this, as well as for two later sessions of the Klettgau Regional Court in 1379 and 1425.

In the time of National Socialism, the stone was given ideological significance as a Germanic Thing site .

The memory of the Chindlistai is based on a legend. The stone is a cultural monument and is a listed building.

In autumn 2019 the grandstand and the remaining facilities of the sports field were demolished and the area renatured , it is also the floodplain of the Wutach. The menhir is now free in the landscape again.

Another striking stone in the district of Waldshut is the menhir of Degernau near a large stone grave designated dolmen Degernau . A number of other megaliths are now known on the Upper Rhine .

literature

  • Egon Gersbach : Prehistory of the High Rhine. (Catalog volume), Badische Fund reports, special issue 11, publisher: State Office for Pre- and Early History Freiburg and State Office for Monument Preservation, Dept. Pre- and Early History, Karlsruhe. Freiburg 1969.
  • Ulf Diederichs and Christa Hinze: Alemannische Sagen , S. 147, 1998 ISBN 3-86047-924-5 .
  • Johannes Künzig , Schwarzwald Sagen in: Alemannische Stammeskunde I., Paul Zaunert (Ed.), 1930.
  • Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 92.
  • Heinz Voellner: Tiengen Pictures of an Old City , 1987.
  • Alexander Würtenberger, Old stories from the Upper Rhine , p.5 ff. 1929.
  • FC Tiengen 08 e.V. V., Chronicle of FC Tiengen 1908–2008, Hundred Years of Fascination Football , FC Tiengen 08 e. V. (Ed.), 2007, ISBN 978-3-9812003-0-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Gersbach: Prehistory of the High Rhine. (Catalog volume), Badische Fund reports, special issue 11, publisher: State Office for Pre- and Early History Freiburg and State Office for Monument Preservation, Dept. Pre- and Early History, Karlsruhe. Freiburg 1969, pp. 167 to 175, with numerous references.
  2. ↑ Brigitte Matt-Willmatt, Karl-Friedricht Hoggenmüller: Lauchringen - Chronik einer Gemeinde, Ed .: Gemeinde Lauchringen, Lauchringen 1985, p. 116 f.
  3. ^ WH Mayer (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch für den Amtsgebiet Waldshut , Verlag R. Philipp, Waldshut 1926, p. 150.
  4. ↑ Egon Gersbach: Urgeschichte des Hochrheins , Freiburg 1969, p. 173: on reference 855: "The Grand Duchy of Baden (1885) 962 - H. Kirchner, Menhirs 143 No. 1" and as a source for the meetings: Register of documents in the canton of Schaffhausen 1, (1906) 134 No. 1085 and 213 No. 1739.
  5. ↑ Significance in the Nazi era .
  6. ↑ Johannes Künzig , Schwarzwald Sagen in: Alemannische Stammeskunde I., Paul Zaunert (Ed.) S., 336, 1930

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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 31 ″  E