Menhir from Buttelstedt
| Menhir from Buttelstedt Whetstone , long stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 4 '52 " N , 11 ° 20' 50.1" E | ||
| place | Buttelstedt , Thuringia , Germany | ||
The menhir of Buttelstedt (also known as a whetstone or long stone ) is a menhir near Buttelstedt in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .
location
The stone is about 100 m north of Buttelstedt between the B 85 and a sports field. It was moved a little while the road was being built. Some shallow graves and campfire sites were discovered here.
description
The menhir is made of shell limestone . It has a height of 280 cm, a width of 75 cm and a depth of 40 cm. It is columnar and ends in a rounded tip. At this point it has a clearly visible erosion channel. The stone was once broken in two, which were believed to have been put back together again in the 1950s. During the GDR era it was painted white. Remnants of the paint can still be seen.
The menhir in regional sagas
The name "whetstone" goes back to a regional legend. According to this, two giants once mowed their meadows. One did this on the Finn, the other on the Ettersberg. When the giant on the fin needed a whetstone for his scythe, the giant from Ettersberg threw him one. But he aimed too short and so the stone landed at Buttelstedt. The menhir of Ettersburg the same announcement is exactly told, only in reverse.
literature
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 366.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 484, 490–491.
- 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. 186.
- Heinz Köber: To the menhirs of Thuringia. In: excavations and finds. Volume 6, Issue 5, 1961, p. 236.
- 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. 22-23.
- 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 , pp. 112, 114.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Whetstone
- strahlen.org: Menhir "Wetzstein", Buttelstedt near Weimar
- suehnekreuz.de: Buttelstedt
- cruptorix.nl: Long stone