Menhir of Alsenz

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Menhir with a memorial plaque for missing and fallen soldiers of the two world wars.

The menhir of Alsenz (also known as Der Wack or Becker Hennes Wack ) is a menhir in Alsenz in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Location and description

The menhir was originally located a good 2 km east of Alsenz on a field with the name Oberhäuser Loch or Heidenloch. There he designated the limit of a former court ban . In the vicinity ran an old road between Bad Kreuznach and Kaiserslautern that was probably built in prehistoric times . In 1953 the stone was moved to Alsenz and has been there since then at the parking lot of the Alsenz-Obermoschel municipal administration at Schulstrasse 16.

The menhir is made of freshwater quartzite . It has a height of 300 cm, a width of 195 cm and a depth of 70 cm. The stone is pyramidal in shape and has a flat broad side. In 1953, a memorial plaque for the "fallen and missing comrades" of the association of former agricultural students and home economics students was attached to this.

literature

  • Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 27ff.
  • Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 311, 321.
  • Werner Rasche: Asterix in the Donnersbergkreis. From North Palatinate menhirs. In: Donnersberg yearbook. 1965, p. 150.
  • Detert Zylmann : The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3936326079 , p. 104.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 321.

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 41.4 ″  E