List of menhirs in Saxony

Bucha

Döben

Steudten

Thümmlitzwald

Zschoppach

At the cow tower

Grimma

Großstorkwitz

Hohenleina

Jesewitz

The menhirs of Saxony. Red: preserved, white: destroyed

The list of menhirs in Saxony includes all known menhirs in the area of today's federal state of Saxony .

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. L: Leipzig / district of Leipzig ; MEI: District of Meissen ; TDO: District of North Saxony
Type : Differentiation between different sub-types:
- Menhir : a single standing, undecorated stone not connected to a grave
- Menhir arrangement: a group of erect stones with an arrangement other than circular or linear or with an unclear arrangement
- Monolith : other stone with a menhir character

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks
Menhir of Bucha ("The Pointed Stone")	Cavertitz , OT Bucha	TDO	Menhir	possibly originally part of the stone enclosure of a Bronze Age burial mound
Menhir of Döben ("The High Stone")	Grimma , OT Döben	L.	Menhir
Menhir from Steudten	Stauchitz , OT Steudten	MEI	monolith
Menhir I in the Thümmlitzwald	Grimma	L.	monolith	Relocated to a school in GDR times, returned to its original location after reunification
Menhir II in the Thümmlitzwald	Grimma	L.	monolith	one of the highest menhirs in Germany; toppled and broken in the 1950s, put together and straightened up again in 1981
Menhir von Zschoppach (Menhir von Draschwitz, "Rugestein")	Grimma , OT Zschoppach	L.	Menhir

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks
Menhir at the cow tower	Leipzig	L.	Menhir
Menhir complex of Grimma ("Am high stone")	Grimma	L.	Menhir plant	Destroyed in 1944
Menhir from Großstorkwitz	Pegau , OT Großstorkwitz	L.	Menhir	before 1856 to the Archaeological Museum in the Great Garden in Dresden implemented, where he in the 1945 bombing of Dresden was destroyed
Menhir of Hohenleina	Krostitz , OT Hohenleina	TDO	Menhir	Destroyed in 1850
Menhir from Jesewitz	Jesewitz	TDO	probably menhir	Destroyed in 1860

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.
Johannes Felix , Max Näbe : About relationships of stone monuments and erratic blocks to cult, to legends and folk customs. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. Volume 42, 1915, pp. 1-20.
Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 368–383.
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.
Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957.
Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony. 2nd Edition. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-799-8 .

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