Menhir from Bürstadt
| Menhir from Bürstadt Sackstein, Der Lange Stein, Kluckstein, Hinkelstein | |||
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 The menhir of Bürstadt |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 39 '18.9 " N , 8 ° 26' 4.6" E | ||
| place | Bürstadt , Hessen , Germany | ||
The menhir of Bürstadt (also known as Sackstein , Der Lange Stein , Kluckstein or Hinkelstein ) is a menhir near Bürstadt in the Bergstrasse district in Hesse .
location
The stone stands northwest of Bürstadt between the Bobstadt district and the Hofheim district of Lampertheim . He is near a railway line and stands there in the middle of a field. It can be reached via a dirt road that runs past about 50 m to the south.
description
The menhir is made of red sandstone . It has a height of 115 cm, a width of 45 cm and a depth of 47 cm. It is columnar and has an irregular surface. Possible traces of processing are meanwhile heavily weathered.
The menhir in regional sagas
The name sackstone goes back to a legend: According to this, a farmer once wanted to fill a sack of potatoes on a Sunday morning. Just as he finished his work, the church bells began to ring. Suddenly the sack became so heavy that the farmer could no longer lift it because it had turned to stone.
literature
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs - a scientific and folkloric contribution to our stone monuments. In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate. Volume 96, 1998, p. 43ff.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 142, 144, 147.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , pp. 332-333.
- 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. 164.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Burstadt Sackstone