Menhir from Dossenbach
| Menhir from Dossenbach The stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 37 '10 " N , 7 ° 52' 34.6" E | ||
| place | Schwörstadt , OT Dossenbach , Baden-Württemberg , Germany | ||
The menhir of Dossenbach (also called the stone ) is a prehistoric menhir near Dossenbach , a district of Schwörstadt in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg . He is in the "Kalte Waid" prize.
location
The stone is located east-northeast of Dossenbach in a forest. “The monolith stands on the western slope of a wide, plateau-like knoll (488.1 m) close to the end of a shallow dry valley. On the western flank of the same valley stands the ' Hunnenstein ' just under 850 m further south-west .
Find history
“In 1948, in a strip of forest south of the Dossenbach – Wehr district road between Pt. 454.0 m and 474.7 m a monolith of gray, grainy Albtal granite discovered. It had overturned in an easterly direction as a result of an excavation at its base. […] Inquiries in this regard among older locals, to whom the menhir-like monolith was well known under the name “the stone” (mdal. De Stai), revealed the presumed date of the excavation to be 1936. Until then, the stone column should have been standing upright. It was also known that the granite block should have been transported to the village as a memorial stone for a war memorial in the mid-twenties; it was found to be too low for this purpose and was therefore left in place. The overturned monolith was erected again in 1963. "
description
“The stone pillar is slim, conical, well rounded and now 1.70 m long. It shows no traces of artificial finishing. The tip probably broke off by 0.20–0.30 m when it fell. Likewise, the completely smooth fracture surface of the approximately circular base - Dm. 0.80 m - not of natural origin; both fracture surfaces are fairly fresh. There is therefore a suspicion that the monolith below has been shortened by a larger piece. Its length (height) should therefore originally have been more than 2 m. "
See also: Megaliths on the Upper Rhine
literature
- Egon Gersbach : Prehistory of the High Rhine. Finds and sites in the districts of Säckingen and Waldshut. (Catalog volume), Baden Fund reports. Special issue 11, Ed .: State Office for Pre- and Early History Freiburg and State Office for Monument Preservation, Dept. Pre- and Early History, Karlsruhe. Freiburg 1969.
- Emil Gersbach, Egon Gersbach: Finds 1944–1948. In: Baden find reports. Volume 18, 1955, p. 207.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 72, 88–89.
- 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. 143.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: The stone Dossenbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotes from: Egon Gersbach: Urgeschichte des Hochrheins. (Catalog volume), Badische Fund reports, special issue 11, Freiburg 1969, p. 173. Information taken over in: Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 87-88. References in Gersbach: Bad. Fundber. 18, 1948–1950, 207. - E. Sangmeister-J. Schneider, Degernau 90.