List of menhirs in Thuringia

Büchel Buttelstedt Ettersburg Field angel Nohra Waldeck Artern Battgendorf Kaltenwestheim Orlishausen Seisla

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

The list of menhirs in Thuringia includes all known menhirs in what is now the state of Thuringia .

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. AP: Weimarer Land district ; KYF: Kyffhäuserkreis ; NDH: District of Nordhausen ; SHK: Saale-Holzland district SM: Schmalkalden-Meiningen district ; SOK: Saale-Orla district ; SÖM: District of Sömmerda
• Type : Differentiation between different sub-types:
  • Menhir : a single standing, undecorated stone not connected to a grave (no other sub-types are known from Thuringia)

Preserved menhirs

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Menhir von Büchel ("The Long Stone")	Büchel	SÖM	Menhir	moved from the original location and converted into a war memorial
Menhir of Buttelstedt ("whetstone", "long stone")	Buttelstedt	AP	Menhir
Menhir of Ettersburg ("The Long Stone")	Ettersburg	AP	Menhir	no longer stands upright, the upper side is smoothed
Menhir of Feldengel ("The Long Stone")	Großenehrich , OT Feldengel	KYF	Menhir
Menhir of Nohra ("Hünenstein", "Hunnenstein")	Nohra	NDH	Menhir
Menhir von Waldeck ("Hoher Stein", "Großer Stein", "Aktivistenstein")	Waldeck	SHK	Menhir

Destroyed menhirs

Menhir	place	district	Type	Remarks	image
Menhir von Artern (Menhir von Edersleben, "bacon side")	Artern / Unstrut	KYF	probably menhir
Battgendorf menhir	Kölleda , OT Battgendorf	SÖM	Menhir
Menhir from Kaltenwestheim	Kaltenwestheim	SM	Menhir
Menhir of Orlishausen	Sömmerda , OT Orlishausen	SÖM	probably menhir
Menhir of Seisla	Seisla	SOK	probably menhir	not listed by Beier

See also

• List of large stone graves in Thuringia

literature

• 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.
• Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990.
• Paul Grimm : Grave field, settlement and menhir of the End Stone Age near Nohra, district of Hohenstein. In: Mannus. Volume 24, 1932, pp. 244-256.
• Paul Grimm: Of upright stones (menhirs) in Central Germany. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Volume 3, Issue 4, 1936, 67-71.
• Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 482–491.
• 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.
• Heinz Köber : To the menhirs of Thuringia. In: excavations and finds. Volume 6, Issue 5, 1961, pp. 235-236.
• Michael Schmidt: The old stones. Travel to the megalithic culture in Central Europe. Rostock 1998.
• 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 .

Web links

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

• Megalithic tombs and menhirs in Thuringia

Individual evidence

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

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