Menhir of Berga
| Menhir of Berga Long stone, high stone | |||
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.jpg) The Berga menhir |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '55.9 " N , 11 ° 0' 1.9" E | ||
| place | Berga , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir of Berga (also called Langer Stein or Hoher Stein ) is a menhir near Berga in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
The stone originally stood in a field in the Thyra floodplain. There he marked the eastern border of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg as a boundary stone . It was later implemented and is now located between Berga and Bösenrode , immediately west of Landstrasse 236.
The menhir is made of reddish sandstone . Its height is 150 cm, the width 70 cm and the depth 50 cm. It is block-shaped and ends in an oblique tip. On the south-east, south-west and north-east side it has several gullies, some of which are interpreted as whetting gutters, others as plow marks. The southeast side also has two knocked in angles and the incised letters A and H.
Finds from the area around the stone come from the band ceramics , the cord ceramic culture , the Hallstatt period and the Middle Ages .
The menhir in regional sagas
To the origin of the menhirs, a traditional in several variants forecast climbs proposes that if once either a giant , the giant Goliath , or a princess from the resin in the Kyffhäuser have gone and have at Berga paid her (or his) shoe, the stone stayed behind. Sometimes it is also said that the stone was originally very small and only gradually grew to its present size.
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. 423, 446.
- 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. 182.
- 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. 19-20.
- Erhard Schröter : soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 93.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, pp. 110–111.
Web links
- High stone Berga
- converted menhir "Hoher Stein", Berga near Kelbra (Kyffhäuser)
- The Berga menhir near Nordhausen