The thick stone (Armsheim)

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The thick stone is a menhir near Armsheim in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Location and description

The original location of the stone is not known. Perhaps it once served as the crowning point for a burial mound that has now been destroyed . Probably from the Middle Ages, he was together with the menhir , the tips of stone , the destroyed today Haugstein and another menhir as a landmark between Armsheim and Flonheim used. During a land consolidation, The Thick Stone and the Point Stone were removed in 1979 and re-erected in the following year 1200 m west of Armsheim. In 2001 they were implemented again. The thick stone was set up on a small green area directly in the village on Bahnhofstrasse. The pointed stone is right next to him. The menhir, which was slightly offset in 1975, was set up 500 m southwest of it. The Lange Stein von Flonheim is 1.8 km south .

The menhir is made of limestone , the place of origin of which is Geiersberg, 2 km away. It has a very porous and weathered surface and at one point has a sloping through hole from a broad to a narrow side. It has a height of 210 cm, a width of 90 cm and a depth of 25 cm. Despite its name, it is the thinnest of the three menhirs in Armsheim. It is plate-shaped, almost rectangular and tapers upwards at an angle.

literature

  • Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, pp. 23-24.
  • Theodor Eichberger: From Aribosheim to Armsheim to Armsem. Mosaic of a Rheinhessen village. Armsheim 1992.
  • Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 37-38.
  • Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 284, 322.
  • 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 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 162.
  • Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-936326-07-9 , p. 103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 322.

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '24.1 "  N , 8 ° 3' 41.6"  E