Bolanden grave steles
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 38 '13.1 " N , 8 ° 0' 44.7" E | ||
| place | Bolanden , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The grave steles of Bolanden were five as grave steles used menhirs from Bolanden in Donnersbergkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz , of which still exist three.
Location and description
The five steles were discovered while plowing on the Herrenwiesen south of the former waterworks of the city of Kirchheimbolanden . The first two were found in 1963 but were smashed and could not be examined further. The other three were discovered in 1965 and placed first in front of the Bolanden school and later in front of the Catholic Church, where they are still located today. Presumably they crowned burial mounds originally from the late Hallstatt period , which had to give way to agriculture, and were buried at their later location.
Steles 1 and 3 are made of local gravelly sandstone , while stele 2 is made of non-local material. Stele 1 has a height of 48 cm, a width of 48 cm and a depth of 47 cm. It has an oval cross-section and a flattened top. Stele 2 has a height of 96 cm, a width of 45 cm and a depth of 37 cm. It is columnar, has an oval cross-section and ends in a rounded tip. Stele 3 has a height of 110 cm, a width of 63 cm and a depth of 50 cm. It is pillar-shaped and has a very rugged surface.
literature
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 40-41.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 326.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 326.