Child stone
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_03.JPG) The child stone of Unter-Widdersheim |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 25 '38.3 " N , 8 ° 55' 5.3" E | ||
| place | Nidda , OT Unter-Widdersheim , Hesse , Germany | ||
The Kindstein is a prehistoric menhir near Unter-Widdersheim , a district of Nidda in the Wetterau district in Hesse .
location
The stone is located in the south of the village of Unter-Widdersheim on the street Zum Kindstein. He stands on a sloping ridge.
description
The menhir is made of phonolite ; the closest occurrence of this rock is about 5–6 km away. It has an approximately oval cross-section, tapers towards the top and ends in a distinctive point. The stone has a height of 255 cm, a width of 230 cm and a depth of 100 cm.
According to Otto Kunkel , medieval ceramic shards were found under the stone . In the 1950s, fragments of the Late Bronze Age urn field culture were found in the vicinity .
The menhir in regional sagas
The name of the stone goes back to a legend. According to this, unborn children should live in it, whose screams can be heard when you hold your ear to the stone. The nurse has the key to this.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 123, 154.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , pp. 452-453.
- 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, pp. 18, 168.
- 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. 126.
- Otto Kunkel : Upper Hesse's prehistoric antiquities. Marburg 1926, p. 228.
- Max Söllner: Materials on the Vogelsberg Retreat. In: Mannus. Volume 51, 1985, p. 24.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Kindstein
- Rhein-Main-Wiki: Menhir in the Wetterau
- unter-widdersheim.de: Chronicle Unter-Widdersheim