Menhir from Kaiserswerth
The Kaiserswerther Menhir is, apart from some finds in the ground , the oldest surviving monument in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on Zeppenheimer Weg. It is a 1.70 m high megalith . It dates from 2000 to 1500 BC. Chr .
There are scratch marks on the menhir , the age and origin of which are unknown. The assumptions range from damage caused by moving the menhir in the 1950s to medieval attempts to carve hollows for candles or crucifixes into the stone to connections with executions, as it used to be the custom to bring the convicts to the place of execution Pushing stone. It is said that the inhabitants of the imperial palace were afraid of the pagan stone, which probably also led to the construction of the Church of St. George (destroyed in 1689) to ward off evil through the sacred.
literature
- Pirkko Gohlke: The stone and its secret. In: NRZ , Düsseldorf, October 9, 2007 ( online )
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 247
Web links
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 56.2 " N , 6 ° 44 ′ 34.3" E