Menhir from Büchel
| Menhir from Büchel The long stone | |||
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 The Büchel menhir |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '52.8 " N , 11 ° 9' 25.6" E | ||
| place | Büchel , Sömmerda district , Thuringia , Germany | ||
The menhir of Büchel (also known as the Long Stone ) is a menhir in Büchel in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia .
location
The stone originally stood on the Oelberg near Büchel. After the First World War it was moved to the place on Dortplatz, where it was converted into a war memorial .
"The landmark of the Büchel village hallway was the Lange Stein, which the Etzleber called the Lange Else. You could see it a hundred years ago, as the Etzleber local pastor August Friedrich Brauer reported around 1825. The long stone stood where the hallways of the three villages Büchel, Etzleben and Schillingstedt collide, so west of Hopfenberg, on the top of which two primeval tombs were once uncovered. At this point, where the Etzleber Flur "the Aschländer" is, the stone stood. " ... "The location of the Lange Stein on an old military road that connected Northern Germany with Thuringia is significant."
description
The menhir is made of sandstone . It has a height of 240 cm, a width of 160 cm and a depth of 50 cm. It is plate-shaped and tapers trapezoidal towards the top. The stone has a heavily weathered surface. When it was moved to the village square, it was set in a base. Commemorative plaques with the names of those who died have been placed on both long sides. The front also shows an iron cross in a laurel wreath .
The menhir in historical sources
According to a document dated May 12, 1255, the Counts of Beichlingen held a court for the long stone at Büchel (in plebiscito ad Lapidem longum iuxta Buchelde)
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 487, 490.
- 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, p. 185.
- 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, pp. 21-22.
- 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 , p. 112.
- Dr. A. Berg : Heimatblocken from the Chronicle of Büchel, Heldrungen 1937
- Otto Dobencker Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria histioriae Thuringiae Volumes I – IV, Jena 1896–1939
