Ghost hill
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '8 " N , 12 ° 4' 4" E | ||
| place | Petersberg , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3100-2650 BC Chr. | ||
The Geisterhügel is a burial mound from the Neolithic Age and crowned by a menhir near Brachstedt , a district of Petersberg (Saalekreis) in Saxony-Anhalt . It was probably built by members of the Bernburg culture (3100–2650 BC).
Location and description
The ghost hill is north of the Brachstedter district Hohen on a dirt road. It was built on the Steinberg to make it appear larger. The burial mound itself has a height of 3 m and a diameter between 20 and 25 m. Since it has not yet been excavated, no further information is possible so far. The hill shows some depressions, but these go back to the use of the area as a military training area by the NVA . A second burial mound is located one kilometer west-northwest in Brachstedt . There was also originally a burial mound on the Dachsberg east of Hohen, but it no longer exists today.
The menhir crowning the ghost hill is made of quartzite . It has a height of 160 cm, a width of 60 cm and a depth of 50 cm. It is pillar-shaped with an approximately square cross-section, probably worked, and tapers upwards at an angle. A groove runs on its tip.
literature
- Bernhard Brühl: Two legends from the Piltitzer Teufelsstein. In: Home calendar for the Mulde districts of Bitterfeld and Delitsch. Volume 7, 1931, p. 43.
- Ulrich Fischer : The Stone Age graves in the Saale region. Berlin 1956.
- Paul Grimm : Of upright stones (menhirs) in Central Germany. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Volume 3, Issue 4, 1936, pp. 67-68.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 392–393, 448.
- C. Keferstein: Views on the Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany, as well as the Celtic origin of the city of Halle. 1st volume: Archaeological content. Hall 1846.
- 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 in 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 181.
- Gerhard Mildenberger : Studies on the Central German Neolithic. Leipzig 1953
- H.-G.Pernutz: Brachstedt in the hall circle. In: news sheet land electricity, overland plant Saalkreis-Bitterfeld. Volume 14, Issue 10, 1935, pp. 112-115.
- 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. 9-10.
- Erhard Schröter: soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1989, p. 90.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony. 2nd edition, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-799-8 , pp. 86-87.
- Bodo Wemhöner, Ralf Schwarz: Routes of archeology. Hall and the hall circle. State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-910010-97-X , pp. 27-29.
Web links
- Thomas Witzke : Menhir on a burial mound, Hohen bei Brachstedt, northeast of Halle at www.strahl.org
- grosssteingraeber.de: The Hohen Menhir near Halle
- The Megalithic Portal: Menhir von Brachstedt
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 456-457.