Hinkelstein (Alsbach)

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Hinkelstein (Alsbach)
Hinkelstein (Alsbach)

Hinkelstein (Alsbach)
Hinkelstein (Alsbach) (Hesse)
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Coordinates 49 ° 44 '36.1 "  N , 8 ° 36' 58.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '36.1 "  N , 8 ° 36' 58.5"  E
place Alsbach-Hähnlein , Hessen , Germany

The menhir is a menhir in Alsbach .

The Hinkelstein - a monolith from the Neolithic - is one of the oldest cultural monuments in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . It consists of malachite , a rare plutonic dike rock that was formed by volcanism . The menhir comes from a quarry on Luciberg below the Melibokus near Zwingenberg . Around 2000 years BCE , the menhir was moved to the site about two kilometers away on the western edge of Alsbach.

The menhir weighs around 3.35 tons. It protrudes a little more than a meter and a half out of the ground, is a meter wide and almost half a meter thick.

In 1812 excavations were made under the menhir; the subsurface became so unstable that the stone fell over. Then it was dug in in 1866 by the Historisches Verein für Hessen ( Historical Association for Hesse) and then put back in its original location. In 1887 an inscription on the menhir was solemnly unveiled.

The Hinkelstein is the namesake for the tram terminus at Hinkelstein , for the school at Hinkelstein , for the Hinkelsteinhalle , for the sports facility at the Hinkelstein and for the street Am Hinkelstein in Alsbach.

literature

  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 118, 147.
  • Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 305.
  • Peter Keller: A cavalryman named Hinkelstein. Darmstädter Echo , December 21, 2015, accessed on December 24, 2015
  • 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 1955, No. 9). Wiesbaden 1955, p. 165.
  • Friedrich Kofler: The menhirs and long stones in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In: Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations. Volume 36, 1888, p. 126.

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