Menhir of Eilsleben
| Menhir of Eilsleben Long stone, Irmin column | |||
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 The long stone of Eilsleben |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 8 '29.3 " N , 11 ° 13' 40.1" E | ||
| place | Eilsleben , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir of Eilsleben , also called Langer Stein or Irmin column , is a menhir near Eilsleben in the Saxony-Anhalt district of Börde .
Location and description
The Lange Stein is located 150 m south-east of the exit from Eilsleben on the road to Siegersleben . It originally stood 150 m further into the field on the Kalkberg at a former crossroads.
The menhir consists of fine-grain sandstone and has a gray-black color due to weathering. Its total height is 240 cm, 170 cm of which protrude from the ground. The width is 50 cm and the depth 40 cm. The stone has roughly the shape of a column, tapers slightly towards the top and has a flattened back. Its surface is processed throughout with pickings. It also has two hollows on the front and a groove in the upper left area. Various letter carvings are of modern date.
The long stone in regional legends
Various versions of a legend are entwined around the Long Stone , according to which 500 citizens or hunters from Goslar, Magdeburg or Hildesheim were killed in one battle. However, there has never been any major fighting at this point in historical times.
literature
- Paul Grimm : Of upright stones (menhirs) in Central Germany. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Vol. 3, Issue 4, 1936, p. 70.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 417, 451.
- 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. 183.
- Johannes Schneider: Soil monuments of the Magdeburg district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Vol. 69, 1986, p. 124.
- 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, Vol. 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, pp. 26-27.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony. 2nd edition, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-799-8 , pp. 58-60.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Eilsleben Hinkelstein / Eilsleben Menhir
- KLEKs Online: Menhir
- grosssteingraeber.de: The menhir at Eilsleben
- strahlen.org: Megalithic graves and menhirs in Saxony-Anhalt
- cruptorix.nl: Eilsleben