Rock carvings at Asnæs Kirke

Rock carvings at Asnæs Kirke

The rock carvings on Asnæs Kirke are in Asnæs , in Odsherred municipality on the Danish island of Zealand .

Two wheel crosses ( Danish Hjulkorser ) and three bowls ( Danish Skåltegn ) are engraved on a stone exposed by the white plaster in the south side of the church wall, west of the Karnhaus and near the tower of Asnæs Kirke . Such petroglyphs ( Danish Hellristningar ) of the iconography of the Nordic prehistoric times generally come from the Bronze Age and occur in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia.

The wheel cross is an image of the sun or the sun disk , on the other hand, according to the Danish archaeologist Flemming Kaul, it can be interpreted as a symbol for the day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons . In the Middle Ages it was used as a consecration cross on church buildings.

See also

• Rock carvings on the Sigersted church
• Bike trailer
• Wheel needle
• Wheel grave
• Vortex wheel

literature

• Peter Vilhelm Glob : Helleristninger i Danmark (=  Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs skrifter. Volume 7). Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, Højbjerg 1969, ISSN  0107-2854 .
• Flemming Kaul: The Myth of the Sun's Journey. Representations on bronze objects from the late Bronze Age. In: Gold and Cult of the Bronze Age. (Exhibition catalog) Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2003, ISBN 3-926982-95-0 .
• Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 198

Web links

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• Description Danish and picture

Coordinates: 55 ° 48 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 11 ° 29 ′ 54.5 ″  E