Menhir from Dexheim
| Menhir from Dexheim The thick stone | |||
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 The menhir of Dexheim |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 50 '46.2 " N , 8 ° 19' 0.1" E | ||
| place | Dexheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Dexheim (also known as the thick stone ) is a menhir near Dexheim in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The stone has been located in the center of Dexheim on Freie Platz since 2000. He should originally in the Won have been "In the arithmetic", served in the Middle Ages as a landmark and was later converted to the K 44th The menhir of Nierstein is located 3.1 km north-northeast of its current location .
description
The menhir has a height of 145 cm, a width of 140 cm and a depth of 120 cm. No information is available on the material. The menhir is rounded and its top is saddle-shaped. Half of its surface shows severe weathering in the form of furrows and holes.
On one of the smooth sides is a small metal plaque with a brief information text on the history of the menhir.
literature
- Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, pp. 23-24.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 279, 328.
- 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. 162.
- Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Mainz-Kostheim 2003, p. 103.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Dexheim Thick Stone
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 328.