Dolmen de la Pierre de Minuit
The more disturbed Dolmen de la Pierre de Minuit ( German Midnight Stone ) is located on the Rue de la Pierre de Minuit, southeast of Pontlevoy , near Blois in the Touraine in the Loir-et-Cher department in France . In France, dolmen is the generic term for Neolithic megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature ). Pierre de Minuit (or Menhir de la Chaise, Grande Pierre de Louzouer) is also called a menhir in Louzouer in the Loiret department .
The dolmen consists of eight blocks: three supporting blocks on the right, three on the left hand side of forming the bottom and a zernarbter, about 5.2 m long, 3.2 m wide and 0.8 m high limestone the ceiling. The amateur archaeologist Louis Petit de La Saussaye (1801–1878) examined the lonely dolmen in 1822, shrouded in legends. It was searched in 1823, 1833, 1840, 1867 and restored in 1885 by Abbot Bourgeois, then director of the College of Pontlevoy.
Legends
- On Christmas night, he turns the capstone and reveals fairies and wizards holding their gathering. A person who dares to approach is killed on the spot or loses sight.
- According to another legend, the dolmen rises in the air at midnight on Christmas Eve and takes a dip in the nearby Charenton pond. Death meets witnesses and prevents them from telling of this miracle.
The menhir Pierre de Minuit stands west of the village Louzouer in the Loiret department ,
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Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 39 " N , 1 ° 16 ′ 7.3" E