Menhir of Derenburg
| Menhir of Derenburg Hünenstein, Hunnenstein, megalithic grave | |||
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 The Hünenstein of Derenburg |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 50 '22.8 " N , 10 ° 53' 39.9" E | ||
| place | Blankenburg (Harz) , OT city of Derenburg , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir of Derenburg (also called Hünenstein , Hunnenstein or Hünengrab ) is a menhir in the city of Derenburg , a district of Blankenburg (Harz) in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
The menhir is located about 4 km south of Derenburg on the southwestern municipal boundary. The Heilbach and Bundesstraße 6 run immediately to the south . In the vicinity and visible from the Derenburger menhir there are two more stones: 150 m south the menhir von Heimburg and 1.1 km west-northwest the menhir von Benzingerode . The menhir did not reach its current location until 1866, originally it probably came from a nearby field, but the exact location is unknown. When Waldtraut Schrickel's photo was taken in the 1950s, the stone was inclined. In 2003 it had to be supported with tree trunks after the Heilbach underwent it during a flood. In 2004 the menhir was raised again.
The menhir consists of senonian quartzite ; the next deposit is around 1.5 km away near Heimburg. Its height is 290 cm, the width 195 cm and the depth 75 cm. The stone is plate-shaped and badly weathered. On one narrow side it has a heel that gives the stone the appearance of a hand.
Finds from the area around the stone come from the band ceramics , the Salzmünder culture , the Walternienburg culture , the Bernburg culture , the Aunjetitz culture and from the Iron Age .
The menhir in regional sagas
According to a legend, the menhir is the gravestone of a pagan hero who fell in battle.
literature
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 347.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 400–401, 448.
- 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 in 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 184.
- Johannes Pätzold : Investigations on the menhir of Benzingerode. In: Klaus Schwarz (Ed.): Strena Praehistorica. Ceremony for Martin Jahn's 60th birthday. Halle (Saale) 1948, pp. 78–79.
- Johannes Schneider : Soil monuments of the Magdeburg district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 127.
- 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, p. 23.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 76.
- Johannes Tschorn: Stones on the Graseweg could be fragments. Letters to the Harz people. In: Volksstimme. Edition Wernigerode, October 8, 2003.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Hünenstein Benzingerode
- tw.strahl.org: Menhir from Derenburg near Wernigerode