The Long Stone (Schauernheim)

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Long stone in Schauernheim
Long Stone Tablet

The Lange Stein is a menhir in Dannstadt-Schauernheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Location and description

The menhir was discovered in 1978 on the "Langer Stein" corridor, where it was on the old border between Schauernheim and Dannstadt. It is set up today in Schauernheim, 25 m behind the southern entrance to the town on Speyerer Straße. Shards of the later Latène period were found at its place of discovery . It could therefore originally have served as a grave stele and date from the 2nd or 1st century BC. Come from BC.

The menhir consists of red sandstone , the place of origin of which the mountains near Bad Dürkheim , around 10 km away , could be identified. It has a height of 180 cm, a width of 65 cm and a depth of 30 cm. It has been processed and given the shape of a pillar with a rectangular cross-section. The tip is blunt.

literature

  • Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 150-151.
  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 344.

Web links

Commons : Langer Stein (Schauernheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 344.

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 19.6 ″  E