Heidenstein (Hattingen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Heidenstein is a granite - boulder in the stream bed of the Holy Spring in Niederbonsfeld , Hattingen , having a size of 1.5 times 1.4 times 1.0 meters and a weight of about 4 to 5 tons. It was probably deposited here as debris during the maximum glaciation during the Saale glaciation .

Heinrich Kämchen told about him in 1909 in the poem "Der Heidenstein".

“Unaffected by the daytime hall
And the sun sparkles
Age-gray and tired asleep,
He rests there in the twilight. "

According to a report in the Hattinger Zeitung of August 18, 1938, legend has it that pagan forest spirits held their nightly dances on the stone.

The local history researcher student Joseph Esser described him under the name "Isenstein" in 1930: "Only the high transport costs are said to have prevented it some time ago that it was deported and processed into a war memorial for a nearby town."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Weidemann: First history board in Niederbonsfeld for the Heidenstein. May 29, 2015, accessed on April 12, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Klaus Skupin, Eckhard Speetzen, Jacob Gosse Zandstra: The Ice Age in Northwest Germany: the history of glaciation in the Westphalian Bay and adjacent areas . Geological State Office North Rhine-Westphalia, Krefeld 1993, ISBN 3-86029-924-7 .
  3. ^ Heinrich Kämchen: The Heidenstein. In: What the Ruhr sang to me. Poems. 1909
  4. ↑ Dirk Sondermann: The Heidenstein.
  5. ↑ Oliver Bergmann: The Heidenstein is a forgotten chunk. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 11, 2009
  6. ↑ Joseph Esser: Monuments of the Ice Age in the Bochum landscape. In: 3. Heimatbuch, 1930
  7. ↑ Heidenstein. megalithic.co.uk

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 38.5 ″  E