Menhir of Alsenz
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
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 321.
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 7 ° 48 ′ 41.4 ″ E