Hinkelstein (Armsheim)
| Hinkelstein (Armsheim) Hynkelstein (1576) | |||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 48 '13.7 " N , 8 ° 3' 22" E | ||
| place | Armsheim , Alzey-Worms district , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir (1576 as Hynkelstein called) is a menhir in Armsheim in Alzey-Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The original location of the stone is not known. Perhaps it once served as the crowning point for a burial mound that has now been destroyed . From the Middle Ages it was used together with the thick stone , the pointed stone , the Haugstein , which is now destroyed, and another menhir as a boundary stone between Armsheim and Flonheim . In 1975 it was moved a bit to the east because of the construction of a motorway rest area. The big stone and the pointed stone, which were also moved in 1979 and again in 2001, are now 500 m northeast on a small green area directly in the village on Bahnhofstrasse. The Lange Stein von Flonheim is 1.5 km south .
The menhir is made of limestone , the place of origin of which is Geiersberg, 2 km away. It has a heavily furrowed and weathered surface and has a through hole in the lower part. It has a height of 170 cm, a width of 120 cm and a depth of 55 cm. It is irregularly plate-shaped and ends in an oblique tip.
literature
- Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, pp. 14-15.
- Theodor Eichberger: From Aribosheim to Armsheim to Armsem. Mosaic of a Rheinhessen village. Armsheim 1992.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 35-36.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 283, 322.
- 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. 159.
- 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. 127.
- Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-936326-07-9 , p. 103.
Web links
- Menhir
- Menhirs in Rheinhessen
- armsheim.de: Prehistory ( Memento from April 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 322.