Hunnenstein (Niederdossenbach)

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Hunnenstein in Niederdossenbach

The Hunnenstein is a menhir near Niederdossenbach in the municipality of Schwörstadt in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg . It is located in the Krosilienwald surrounded by fir trees. The 2.5 m long menhir is made of granite.

“The name 'Hunnenstein', which is common today, was probably carved into one broad side of the monolith in the 19th century. It is certainly not down-to-earth, but has been brought into the people as a half-learned new formation. "

location

"The menhir stands not far from the district boundary towards Dossenbach on the gentle eastern slope of one of the numerous flat knolls (420 m) that give the shell limestone table of the eastern Dinkelberg its character." 850 m further northeast is the menhir of Dossenbach .

Find history

“1953 was in the parish forest Distr. V the menhir known under the name Hunnenstein was erected again at the instigation of the Säckingen Forestry Office. [...] It was dug up several times by the locals, knocked down and transported away as hard stone material, which is naturally very popular in a limestone area, but just as often returned to its old location at the instigation of the forest authorities. In the excavation of the last construction pit, some Roman fragments could be collected. [...] Several shards of simple Roman pottery as well as the rim of a collar bowl. "

description

"Slender, spindle-shaped monolith made of gray, slightly rounded granite - height 2.50 m, diameter at the top 0.30 m, diameter in the middle 0.50 m."

See also: Megaliths on the Upper Rhine

literature

  • Egon Gersbach : Prehistory of the High Rhine. Finds and sites in the districts of Säckingen and Waldshut. (Catalog volume), Baden Fund reports. Special issue 11, Ed .: State Office for Pre- and Early History Freiburg and State Office for Monument Preservation, Dept. Pre- and Early History, Karlsruhe. Freiburg 1969.
  • Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 90.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotes from: Egon Gersbach : Urgeschichte des Hochrheins. Baden find reports. Special issue 11, Freiburg 1969. Literature at Gersbach: Bad. Fundber. I, 1925-1928, 237; 1941–1947, 67. - M. Klär, das Vordere Wehratal (1928), 35. - E. Wahle, Vorzeit am Oberrhein 28. - H. Kirchner, Menhirs 20. 21. 45. 54. 143 plate 7, op . - E. Sangmeister-J. Schneider, Degernau 90 B, 1.

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '48.1 "  N , 7 ° 52' 25.8"  E