List of menhirs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Boitin Feldberg Hohenbarnekow Karlsburg Church Rosin Lenzen Mühlenkamp Mesh tape Nobbin Pöglitz Polzow room Spornitz Thurow Hohenbrünzow Klopzow Moltzow

The menhirs of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Red: preserved, white: destroyed

The list of menhirs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania includes all known menhirs in the area of ​​today's federal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

List of menhirs

• Menhir : Names the name of the menhir as well as common alternative names
• Location : Names the municipality and, if applicable, the district in which the menhir is located.
• District : Name the district to which the municipality belongs. LRO: Rostock district ; LUP: District Ludwigslust-Parchim ; MSE: District of Mecklenburg Lake District ; VG: District of Vorpommern-Greifswald ; VR: District of Western Pomerania-Rügen
• Type : Differentiation between different sub-types:
  • Grooved stone : an erect stone with grooved decoration
  • Stone circle : a group of upright stones arranged in a circle
  • Guardian stone: stone standing in front of or next to a grave
  • Monolith : other stone with a menhir character

Preserved menhirs

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Boitin stone dance	Tarnow , OT Boitin	LRO	Stone circle	Group of four stone circles
Menhir I from Feldberg	Feldberger Seenlandschaft , OT Feldberg	MSE	monolith
Menhir II from Feldberg	Feldberger Seenlandschaft , OT Feldberg	MSE	monolith
Menhir III from Feldberg	Feldberger Seenlandschaft , OT Feldberg	MSE	monolith
Feldberg stone circle	Feldberger Seenlandschaft , OT Feldberg	MSE	Stone circle
Hohenbarnekow stone circle	Gremersdorf-Buchholz , OT Hohenbarnekow	VR	Stone circle
Menhir of Karlsburg	Karlsburg , OT Karlsburg	VG	monolith	Single stone in field stone foundation, park element (without history) in Karlsburg Palace Park; 2 meters high
Stone dance by Kirch Rosin ("court office")	Mühl Rosin , OT Kirch Rosin	LRO	Stone circle
Stone dance from Lenzen ("Court Square")	Mustin , OT Lenzen	LUP	Stone circle
Rillenstein from Mühlenkamp	Sassen-Trantow , OT Mühlenkamp	VG	Rillenstein
Stone dance by Netzeband ("Seven Stones")	Katzow , OT Netzeband	VG	Stone circle	Part of a Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age necropolis, excavated several times, 5 of the former 7 stones are still standing
Pöglitz stone circle	Gremersdorf-Buchholz , OT Pöglitz	VR	Stone circle	Part of a Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age necropolis
Menhir from Pöglitz	Gremersdorf-Buchholz , OT Pöglitz	VR	Guardian Stone	Part of a Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age necropolis; erected next to a large stone grave; blown up
Guardian couple from Nobbin	Putgarten , OT Nobbin	VR	Guardian stone couple	Part of a Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age necropolis; erected in front of a large stone grave; each over 2 meters high and weighing 26 t
Devil's chair from Thurow	Züssow , OT Thurow	VG	monolith	possibly on a Bronze Age burial mound cut by road construction (B 111); Devil's chair - due to the shape of the chair - legend has not yet survived; also called the Gypsy King's Throne; in field stone foundation; 1.8 meters high
Stone circle I from Polzow	Polzow	VG	Stone circle	Part of a necropolis from the pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Empire
Stone circle II from Polzow	Polzow	VG	Stone circle	Part of a necropolis from the pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Empire
Stone circle from Saal ("Twelve Apostles")	room	VR	Stone circle
Spornitz stone circle ("Sagensteine", "Seven Stones", "Seven Brothers Stones", "Stone Dance")	Spornitz	LUP	Stone circle

Destroyed menhirs

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Hohenbrünzow stone circles	Hohenmocker , OT Hohenbrünzow	MSE	Stone circle	4 to 5 stone circles; Part of a necropolis
Klopzow stone circle	Rechlin , Klopzow desert	MSE	Stone circle	Double stone circle
Moltzow stone circle	Moltzow	MSE	Stone circle	on a hill near a Bronze Age burial ground

See also

• List of large stone graves in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

literature

• Julius Becker: Stone dances and stone circles. In: Mecklenburg. Magazine of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg / Landesverein des Deutschen Heimatbundes. Volume 34, 1939, pp. 123-133.
• Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991.
• Robert Beltz : To the stone dances. In: Mecklenburg. Magazine of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg / Landesverein des Deutschen Heimatbundes. Volume 24, 1929, pp. 100-103.
• Robert Beltz: To the stone dances. In: Mecklenburg. Magazine of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg / Landesverein des Deutschen Heimatbundes. Volume 26, 1931, p. 22.
• Hans Jürgen Eggers : Two urn cemeteries from the area around the village of Netzeband (Greifswald district). A. The stone circle in the Netzebander Heide. In: Messages from the collection of patriotic antiquities at the University of Greifswald . Volume 4, 1930, pp. 17-31.
• Reinhold Gröger: Boitin's stone dance and its astronomical significance. Treatise. Salem 2001.
• Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 156–193.
• Joachim Hermann (ed.): Archeology in the German Democratic Republic. Monuments and finds. Volume 2. Stuttgart 1989.
• Peter Hertel: The Boitiner stone dance in Mecklenburg. In: Mannus. German magazine for prehistory. Volume 54, 1988, pp. 260-275.
• Gisa Hertel, Peter Hertel, Andreas Müller: The Boitiner stone dance. In: Supplement to the Schweriner Volkszeitung. No. 45, 1980, p. 9.
• Adalbert Kasten: Stone circle in the Netzebander Haide. In: Baltic Studies. 1878, pp. 545-547.
• Horst Keiling: buried in the district - stone setting and urn graves near Netzeband, Lkr. Ostvorpommern. Archaeological discoveries in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: Archeology in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 5, 2009, pp. 111-112.
• Gerd Peter Kinkeldey: Prehistoric graves in the Pöglitzer »Steinbrink« forest. In: Archaeological reports from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 7, 2000, pp. 5-11.
• Achim Leube: Iron Age stone setting in northern Central Europe. In: Journal of Archeology. Volume 13, 1979, pp. 1-22.
• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Moltzow stone circle. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 6, 1841, p. 136 ( online ).
• Günter Mangelsdorf, Martin Schönfelder: To the graves with weapons added from the younger pre-Roman Iron Age in the stone circle of Netzeband (Kr. Ostvorpommern). In: Archaeological correspondence sheet. Volume 31, 2001, pp. 93-106.
• Ernst Johann Friedrich Mantzel: From the Stein-Dantz without Boythien, a while from Bützow. In: Bützow hours of rest. Part 19, 1765, pp. 75-76.
• Jan Mende: Magic stones. Guide to archaeological sights in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1672-X .
• Rolf Müller: The astronomical significance of the Mecklenburg "stone dance" at Bützow. In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Volume 22, 1931, pp. 197-202.
• Rolf Müller: Celestial location on Nordic-Germanic soil. Leipzig 1936.
• Rolf Müller: The sky above man from the Stone Age. Astronomy and mathematics in the structures of the megalithic cultures. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1970.
• Albert Niederhöffer: Mecklenburg's folk tales. Volume 2. Leipzig 1857.
• Eckhard Oberdörfer: North Western Pomerania. Bremen 2002.
• Friedrich Studemund: Mecklenburg legends. Schwerin 1848.
• Werner Timm: Mecklenburg's stone dance. A 3000 year old observatory. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. Volume 4, 1928, pp. 475-481, 552-555.
• Richard Wossidlo: Legends of the Boitiner stone dance. In: Warener Tageblatt. No. 234, 1935.

Web links

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• Large stone graves and megalithic structures - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• Megalithic tombs and menhirs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 61.
2. ↑ Ludwig Fromm, C. Struck: The Müritz. In: Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. Volume 14, 1864, p. 36 ( online ).