The tangled stone
| The tangled stone The well-worn stone, Hoyerstein | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 38 '59.6 " N , 11 ° 32' 57.8" E | ||
| place | Hettstedt , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The tangled stone (also called the worn stone or Hoyerstein ) is a possible menhir near Hettstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
The stone is located east of Hettstedt in the middle of the field, 500 m from the next field path. The terrain is slightly elevated and sloping to the southeast. The stone rests in a pile of earth in which two smaller stones are stuck. There are two more menhirs in the vicinity: 2.5 km east-southeast is the Feldpredigerstein and 4.5 km south-east the menhir von Gerbstedt .
The menhir is made of quartz . Its height is 120 cm, the width 300 cm and the depth 40 cm. It has the shape of an irregular plate and is oriented north-south. A deep incision can be seen on the top. The east side has several driven nails. Whether the tangled stone is actually a menhir is controversial among researchers. Waldtraut Schrickel did not classify him as such, but Olaf Kürbis and Ralf Schwarz did .
Finds from the area around the stone come from the band ceramics , the Rössen culture , the cord ceramics culture , the Iron Age and the Middle Ages .
The menhir in regional sagas
According to a legend, bluish flames can be seen on the stone during a thunderstorm.
literature
- Heinrich Becker: The bacon side at Aschersleben. In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity. Volume 22, 1889, p. 392 ( online ).
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 415, 455.
- 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. 42–43.
- Erhard Schröter : soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 74.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 82.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Vergewhrene Stein (Nagelstein Hettstedt)