Hærulfstein

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The Hærulfstein near Hovslund
Friedrich Karl's hunting lodge Dreilinden with the Hærulfstein as a personal memory of the war, around 1900

The Hærulfstein ( Danish Hærulfstenen or Øster Løgumstenen ) is a rune stone from the Viking Age (800-1050 AD) in Denmark .

It dates from the 9th century AD and is located in Southern Jutland , on the historic Ochsenweg ( Danish Oksevejen ) near the village of Hovslund ( German  "Haberslund" ), in the Aabenraa municipality . The inscription “Hairulfr” commemorates an unknown person.

The stone, discovered in the 19th century not far from where it is today, was brought to Berlin as spoils of war by Friedrich Karl von Prussia after the war of 1864 and from then on stood in front of his Dreilinden hunting lodge . In 1951 he returned to Denmark on the initiative of the Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter . It is freely accessible at its current location.

Opposite is Strangelshøj, a Bronze Age burial mound with a building stone .

literature

  • Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 . Pp. 80, 87
  • Inge Adriansen: Erindringssteder i Danmark. Monumenter, mindesmærker og mødesteder , Museum Tusculanum, Copenhagen 2011, p. 356 f. ISBN 978-87-635-3173-3 .
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , pp. 136-137

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inge Adriansen: Erindringssteder i Danmark , p. 356.

Coordinates: 55 ° 8 '24.6 "  N , 9 ° 20' 41.8"  E