List of menhirs in Lower Saxony and Bremen

Ahlhorn Ardorf Beckstedt Bentstreek Bliedersdorf Borchel Bredelem Burhafe Daudieck Elsdorf Gerkenhof Harpstedt Hekese Hollenbeck Holtum Clumps Melzingen Reepsholt Soderstorf Stedesdorf Steina Tarmstedt Uplengen Vehres Verden Leherheide

The menhirs in Lower Saxony and Bremen

The list of menhirs in Lower Saxony includes all known menhirs in the area of ​​today's federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen .

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. GÖ: District of Göttingen ; GS: District of Goslar ; HB: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ; LER: District of Leer ; LG: District of Lüneburg ; OL: District of Oldenburg ; OS: District of Osnabrück ; ROW: District of Rotenburg (Wümme) ; STD: District of Stade ; UE: Uelzen district ; VER: Verden district ; WTM: District of Wittmund
• Type : Differentiation between different sub-types:
  • Menhir : a single standing, undecorated stone rarely connected to a grave
  • decorated menhir : a single standing, decorated stone not connected to a grave
  • Grave stele : a stone standing on a burial mound
  • Menhir arrangement: a group of erect stones with an arrangement other than circular or linear or with an unclear arrangement
  • Stone circle : a group of upright stones arranged in a circle
  • Stone row : a group of erect stones with a linear arrangement
  • Grooved stone : an erect stone with grooved decoration
  • Monolith : other stone with a menhir character

Menhirs in Lower Saxony

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Menhir complex of Ahlhorn ("Twelve Apostles", "Apostles")	Grossenkneten , OT Ahlhorn	OIL	Menhir plant
Menhir von Ardorf ("Hilgensteen", "Hilgenstein")	Wittmund , OT Ardorf	WTM	monolith
Sunstone from Beckstedt	Colnrade , OT Beckstedt	OIL	decorated menhir
Bentstreek stone circle ("The Hunt")	Friedeburg , OT Bentstreek	WTM	Stone circle
Rillenstein from Bliedersdorf	Bliedersdorf	HOURS	Rillenstein
Rillenstein from Borchel	Rotenburg (Wümme) , OT Borchel	ROW	Rillenstein	placed in front of the Heimatmuseum in Rotenburg
Menhir from Bredelem	Langelsheim , OT Bredelem	GS	monolith	built as a wall stone in a gallery grave. Today in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum , archeology department in Wolfenbüttel . A copy was placed near the reconstructed grave.
Menhir of Burhafe ("Foskort", "Fosskutt", "Vosskutt")	Wittmund , OT Burhafe	HOURS	monolith	possibly remnants of a large stone grave or a stone circle
Rillenstein from Daudieck	Horneburg , OT Daudieck	HOURS	Rillenstein
Menhir from Elsdorf	Elsdorf	ROW	Rillenstein	displayed today in the museum stone room in Anderlingen
Bildstein from Gerkenhof	Kirchlinteln , OT Gerkenhof	VER	decorated menhir	today in the Historical Museum in Verden (Aller)
Sunstone from Harpstedt	Harpstedt	OIL	decorated menhir
Row of stones from Hekese	Mountains , OT Hekese	OS	Row of stones	connects two large stone tombs
Rillenstein from Hollenbeck	Harsefeld , OT Hollenbeck	HOURS	Rillenstein	formerly in the Schwedenspeicher Museum in Stade , today integrated into an art object at Hollenbeck's village square.
Menhir of Holtum (Geest)	Kirchlinteln , OT Holtum (Geest)	VER	monolith	set up today on private property in Verden (Aller)
Sunstone from Horsten	Friedeburg , OT Horsten	WTM	decorated menhir
Melzingen Rillenstein ("Sacrificial Stone")	Schwienau , OT Melzingen	UE	Rillenstein
Menhir from Reepsholt ("Oll 'Gries")	Friedeburg , OT Reepsholt	WTM	Menhir plant
Menhir von Ristedt ("The crooked tailor")	Syke , OT Ristedt	DH	Menhir
Soderstorf grave steles	Soderstorf	LG	Grave stele	several grave steles on an Iron Age urn grave field between a Neolithic large stone grave and a Bronze Age burial mound
Stone circles from Soderstorf	Soderstorf	LG	Stone circle	nine to eleven stone circles on an Iron Age urn grave field between a Neolithic large stone grave and a Bronze Age burial mound
Rillenstein from Stedesdorf	Stedesdorf	WTM	Rillenstein
Menhir from Steina	Bad Sachsa , OT Steina	GÖ	monolith	Classification as a menhir questionable
Rillenstein from Tarmstedt	Tarmstedt	ROW	Rillenstein
Menhir F1 from Uplengen	Uplengen	LER	Menhir	together with a further Menhir and four boulders in the route of a pile path of the Roman Empire discovered
Menhir F5 from Uplengen	Uplengen	LER	Menhir	discovered together with another menhir and four erratic boulders in the route of a boardwalk from the Roman Empire
Menhir von Vehre ("Süntelstein")	Belm , OT Vehre	OS	Menhir	originally possibly surrounded by a stone circle
Menhir 1 from Verden (Aller)	Verden (Aller)	VER	Rillenstein	built together with 4,500 boulders between 1934 and 1936 in the neo-pagan " Sachsenhain "
Menhir 2 from Verden (Aller)	Verden (Aller)	VER	Rillenstein	built together with 4,500 boulders between 1934 and 1936 in the neo-pagan "Sachsenhain"
Menhir 3 from Verden (Aller)	Verden (Aller)	VER	Rillenstein	built together with 4,500 boulders between 1934 and 1936 in the neo-pagan "Sachsenhain"

Menhirs in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Rillenstein from Leherheide	Bremerhaven , OT Leherheide	HB	Rillenstein	set up today on the site of a daycare center

See also

• List of large stone graves in Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hamburg

literature

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• Rolf Müller: Celestial location on Nordic-Germanic soil. Leipzig 1936.
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• Detlef Schünemann: A late Bronze Age picture stone in Gerkenhof, Gem. Schafwinkel, Kr. Verden? In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 35, 1966, pp. 81-84.
• Detlef Schünemann: On the late Bronze Age picture stone from Gerkenhof, Kr. Verden - new references for its authenticity. In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 41, 1972, pp. 201-202.
• Detlef Schünemann: Further prehistoric grooved stones in the Verden district In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 48, 1979, pp. 177-180.
• Detlef Schünemann: New grooved stones from the lower Aller. For dating the groove and gutter stones - perspectives and monument preservation tasks. In: The customer. NF Volume 38, 1987, pp. 73-100.
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• Detlef Schünemann, Heinz Oldenburg: An early Iron Age cult site in Dalsch near Hohneaverbergen, Kr. Verden. With an appendix: A presumed cult stone in the district of Kükenmoor, Kr. Verden. In: The customer. NF Volume 19, 1968, pp. 56-84.
• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 .
• Wolf-Dieter Tempel: District of Rotenburg (Wümme). In: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Ed.): Hameln, Deister, Rinteln, Minden (= guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 4) Zabern, Mainz 1984.
• Alfred Tode: A Western European stone box near Bredelem am Harz. In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Volume 40, 1962, pp. 273-274.
• Willi Wegewitz : The Rillenstein from the forester's house Hollenbeck, Stade district. In: Stader yearbook. 1982, pp. 7-23.
• Willi Wegewitz: Rillen- und Rinnensteine: Little-noticed monuments of the past. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet. Volume 13, 1983, pp. 355-358.
• Günter Wegner (Ed.): Life - Belief - Dying 3000 years ago. Bronze Age in Lower Saxony. Oldenburg 1996.

Web links

Commons : Menhirs in Lower Saxony  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Megalithic tombs and menhirs in Lower Saxony / Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 61.