Hollen sacrificial stone

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Hollen sacrificial stone

The Hollener Sacrificial Stone is a natural monument (ND CUX 104) in the forest between Hollen -Dreinigkeit and Hollener Heide.

description

The granite block is located on the southern edge of the "Hollener Heide" forest near the "Kattenbarge". Its shape is a rounded cuboid of 2 × 2.90 meters. Today it extends 1.5 meters from the earth. At the top it has a shallow depression from which it owes its name. It could be suitable for receiving sacrificial animals or other gifts. There are four notches on the northern edge. They could have been a tray for sacrificial knives. However, they are only viewed by the local caretaker as witnesses to unsuccessful attempts at destruction.

history

The stone was first discovered around 1800 by forest workers from "Hollener Kamp". Several times they tried to shred it to use the pieces. But that didn't work. And when it was reported to the forestry department, it was prosecuted as a theft of state property. Several attempts have also been made to crush the boulder with dynamite.

There was a little wooden house nearby that even served as a home for a refugee family of four after the Second World War. It was then sold as a garden house according to the "Hollen Trinity". The question of whether the stone was really a sacrificial stone from Germanic times is judged differently. The proximity to a large urn field that was excavated in 1895 spoke in favor. But many homeland researchers also disagree.

“Past the 'Rehweide' we went deeper and deeper into the gloomy Tann, until we finally sat around the sacrificial stone and let us tell of ancestors, who were called Teutons, prayed to strange gods and - perhaps - had sacrificed here. Had the blood of the sacrificial animals flowed through this groove?

But soon the shuddering devotion gave way to the daring game, and under the worried gaze of our teachers we climbed around on the gray giant. "

- Hartmut Thienel : Between Geest, Moor and Lune, p. 61

literature

  • Hartmut Thienel u. Working group: Between Geest, Moor and Lune - 900 years of Hollen . Hollen 2004, p. 60

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appendix 1 to the Ordinance on Natural Monuments in the Cuxhaven District of October 2, 1995 ; ND-CUX SG-Beverstedt.pdf (2.36 MB; accessed on June 2, 2016)

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '32.4 "  N , 8 ° 43' 26.4"  E