Menhir from Dalchau

The Dalchau menhir was a prehistoric menhir near Dalchau , a district of Möckern in the district of Jerichower Land , Saxony-Anhalt . It was probably destroyed in the 18th or 19th century.

location

The menhir lay on the left side of the path leading from Möckern to Dalchau in a field known as "stubble". From Dalchau two destroyed burial mounds (the Creutzberg and the Dörrberg ) as well as the field name "Steinberge" are known, which could indicate a destroyed large stone grave .

Research history

The facility was documented for the first time by Joachim Gottwalt Abel , who was pastor in Möckern between 1755 and 1806 . He left only handwritten notes on this, which were published by Ernst Herms in 1928 . The menhir itself had already been destroyed during Herms' investigations.

description

It was an erect stone of oval shape. It was wide at the bottom and tapered to a point at the top. Its height was 7 feet (about 2.2 m). Its girth was 33 feet (about 10.2 m) at the bottom. An artificial mound had been raised around the stone, in which it was several feet deep in the earth.

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. 62.
• Ernst Herms: The megalithic graves of the district of Jerichow I. In: Festschrift of the Magdeburg Museum for Natural and Local History for the 10th Conference on Prehistory. Magdeburg 1928, p. 251.