La Table des Géants

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La Table des Géants ( German  "giant table " ) is a pseudodolmen southwest of Reinhardsmunster ( German : Reinhardsmünster ) on the edge of the Northern Vosges on the border with the Moselle department in the Bas-Rhin department in France .

Pseudodolmen are known from different regions is Cova d'en Genís , Dolmen von Busnela , Dolmen von Chevresse , Dolmen von Solwaster , Pierre au Rey , La Table des Géants in Reinhardsmunster and L'autel des Druides in Pfaffenheim (both in the department of Haut-Rhin ) or Sparossino in Liguria. The pseudodolmen are natural, accidentally formed structures made of stone blocks reminiscent of a dolmen.

The horizontal, rectangular stone of the Table des Géants, supported like a dolmen at both ends, is around 3.5 meters long and 2.5 meters wide. Its height is 1.8 meters. There are other large stones next to the table of giants.

Approximately north of Reinhardsmunster, near the hamlet of Wuestenberg, there is the " Pierre des Druides " bowl stone with a large, round depression.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 44.8 "  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 34.2"  E