Pagan Sacrifice Stone

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The pagan sacrificial stone .

The Heidenopferstein is a boulder and is located on Staffelsberg in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .

The stone is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-130 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

In its original form as a boulder, the Heidenopferstein has its origin in the Euerdorfer Forest in the fire control department. Not far from the site of the Heidenopferstein there is a pre-Christian burial mound field with 18 burial mounds. This could indicate that the stone served as a sacrificial stone in pre-Christian times, on which human sacrifices were also offered.

Later the Heidenopferstein came into the Aura monastery at that time (today's ruins of Aura ); there it got its present form as a font. Under what circumstances this happened can no longer be clarified with any certainty. One version says that the monks of the Aura monastery began to shape the stone into a baptismal font by hammering a hollow on the top; this project was interrupted when the "Auraer Haufen", a group of rebellious farmers, devastated the monastery as part of the peasant uprising of 1525 . According to another version, the Würzburg prince-bishop Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen wanted to help the monastery to flourish again with a baptismal font; his plans in turn failed because of the Thirty Years' War . There is also the possibility that both variants apply and two attempts have been made to turn the boulder into a font.

At the end of the 1880s, the Heidenopferstein came to its current location in Bad Kissinger Staffelsberg.

literature

  • Hermann Fischer: The enigmatic story of a boulder , in: Driving into the land of the Franks , Volume 7, 1963/64, p. 87
  • Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 67
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 112 .
  • Frank Kupke: The riddle of the Heidenopferstein - an idyllic destination on the Staffelsberg with a prehistoric background

Web links

Commons : Heidenopferstein (Bad Kissingen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.rhoenline.de - "Church ruins Aura"

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 15 ″  E