Menhir of Döben
| Menhir of Döben The long stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '8.8 " N , 12 ° 46' 11.5" E | ||
| place | Grimma , Saxony , Germany | ||
The menhir of Döben , also called the long stone , is a prehistoric menhir near Döben , a district of Grimma in the district of Leipzig .
location
The menhir is located about 30 m east of the exit from Döben, directly at the confluence of a dirt road with the road to Grechwitz . He stands there on a raised ground.
description
The menhir consists of lignite quartzite . It is badly weathered, has a square cross-section and a sloping tip. It has a height of 180 cm, a width of 70 cm and a depth of 60 cm.
The menhir in regional sagas
There are two legends about the menhir : On the one hand, a dog with fiery eyes is said to run around there at night , accompanying the passerby to the village. On the other hand, a gray man is supposed to appear there at witching hour, who sits on his back or spells them down. When he took up the menhir in 2005, Johannes Groht found that the legends are still well known to the local residents. He was told that ghosts appeared here at night and the menhir would protect the place. He also discovered that someone had filled the holes and cracks on the surface of the stone with glass beads and lumps of gold.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 71.
- Johannes Felix , Max Näbe : About relationships of stone monuments and erratic blocks to cult, to legends and folk customs. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. Volume 42, 1915, pp. 1-20.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt / State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 375, 381.
- 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. 187.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1. Catalog Leipzig 1957, p. 69ff.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt - Thuringia - Saxony. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , pp. 118-120.