List of menhirs in Schleswig-Holstein

Beldorf Damp Seedorf Süderbrarup Trittau Warring wood

The menhirs of Schleswig-Holstein

The list of menhirs in Schleswig-Holstein includes all known menhirs in the area of ​​what is today the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein .

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 parish belongs. IZ: Steinburg district ; OD: Stormarn district ; RD: District of Rendsburg-Eckernförde ; RZ: District of the Duchy of Lauenburg SL: District of Schleswig-Flensburg
• 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

Menhir	place	circle	Type	Remarks	image
Menhir from Beldorf	Beldorf	RD	monolith	today in the magazine of the Archaeological State Museum in Busdorf
Damp stone circle ("Rote Maaß")	Damp	RD	Stone circle
Menhir I from Seedorf	Seedorf	RZ	Rillenstein	The two stones in Seedorf are only 13 m apart
Menhir II from Seedorf	Seedorf	RZ	monolith
Menhir from Süderbrarup	Süderbrarup	SL	Guardian Stone
Menhir from Trittau	Trittau	OD	Rillenstein	Part of a presumably Early Iron Age stone setting; in the immediate vicinity there were probably more stone rows and cup stones
Menhir from Warringholz	Warring wood	IZ	monolith	placed next to a large stone grave; The plant was to Itzehoe reacted

See also

• List of large stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein

literature

• Claus Ahrens: The "Rote Maaß" at Damp. A cult place of the post-Christian Iron Age in Mittelschwansen. In: Offa. Reports and communications on prehistory, early history and medieval archeology. Volume 23, 1966, pp. 92-121.
• Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990.
• Johannes Groht : Temple of the ancestors. Megalithic buildings in Northern Germany. Baden / Munich 2005.
• Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 464–481.
• Günther Haseloff: A burial mound in Warringholz. In: Gustav Schwantes (Hrsg.): Representations from Lower Saxony's prehistory 4. Prehistory studies on both sides of the Lower Elbe. Festschrift for KH Jacob-Friesen. Hildesheim 1939, pp. 100-124.
• 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.
• Achim Leube: Iron Age stone setting in northern Central Europe. In: Journal of Archeology. Volume 13, 1979, pp. 1-22.
• Detlef Schünemann: News from grooved and gutter stones. Attempt to form groups based on exact profile measurements. In: The customer. NF Volume 43, 1992, 67-97.
• 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 : The Nordic Megalithic Culture (= Handbook of Prehistory Germany. Volume 3), Berlin / Leipzig 1938.
• Karl Wilhelm Struve : An anthropomorphic menhir from the community of Seedorf, district of the Duchy of Lauenburg. In: The home. Volume 81, Issue 4, 1974, pp. 93-100.
• Willi Wegewitz : Rillen- und Rinnensteine: Little-noticed monuments of the past. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet. Volume 13, 1983, pp. 355-358.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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