Hinkelstein (Börrstadt)

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Hinkelstein (Börrstadt)
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Hinkelstein (Börrstadt) (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Coordinates 49 ° 35 '12.4 "  N , 7 ° 55' 53.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '12.4 "  N , 7 ° 55' 53.8"  E
place Börrstadt , Donnersbergkreis , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany

The menhir is a menhir at Börrstadt in Donnersbergkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz .

Location and description

The menhir is located northwest of Börrstadt a little below the highest point of an elevation at the foot of the Donnersberg . It stands right on the border of a golf course and a meadow orchard and marks the border between Börrstadt and Steinbach am Donnersberg . Nearby is a piece of land called "Steinwald". The name is derived from several erect stones that once stood there but were removed in the middle of the 20th century. Only in the “hornbeam” forest is a fragment with blast holes. Ernst Christmann suspected that the menhir from Börrstadt once came from here and thus represents the last remnant of a significantly larger menhir that was destroyed in order to gain boundary stones. This could have happened around 1745/46, when the land that previously belonged to the Froschpfuhler Court was divided up among the neighboring towns. Otto Godel , however, believed that the stone originally from the 800 meters to the northwest Early Latène grave mound field Pfaffenschlag comes.

The menhir is made of yellowish sandstone . It has a height of 105 cm, a width of 60 cm and a depth of 45 cm. The columnar stone is roughly angular and tapered slightly upwards. Its surface has a deep hole, a groove and several blast holes in the lower area and on the edges.

literature

  • Ernst Christmann: Menhirs and menhirs in the Palatinate. Speyer n.d. (1947), p. 21.
  • Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 58ff.
  • Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 325–326.
  • 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. 149.
  • Detert Zylmann : The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-936326-07-9 , p. 104.
  • Werner Rasche: golf course, settlers, menhir. The Röderhof near Börrstadt. In: Donnersberg yearbook. Volume 36, 2013, pp. 48-49.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 325-326.