Menhir from Essenheim

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Menhir from Essenheim The long stone, the high stone
The Menhir of Essenheim

The Menhir of Essenheim
Menhir from Essenheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Coordinates 49 ° 55 '9.3 "  N , 8 ° 10' 16"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '9.3 "  N , 8 ° 10' 16"  E
place Essenheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany

The menhir of Essenheim (also known as Der Lange Stein or Der Hohe Stein ) is a menhir near Essenheim in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The stone is located southeast of Essenheim in front of the Hohensteiner Hof. Originally it was a little further away on the boundary between Essenheim and Ober-Olm . In Essenheim it was called "The Long Stone", in Ober-Olm "The High Stone". It was probably excavated during a land consolidation and placed in a nearby wooded area. From there it was later moved to its current location by the farm owner.

description

The menhir is made of limestone . It has a height of 110 cm, a width of 50 cm and a depth of 45 cm. About a third of the stone is in the ground, at the base it should be wider. The menhir is columnar and has a rounded top. Its surface is badly weathered. A cross is carved into the top of the stone.

literature

  • Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, p. 21.
  • Otto Gödel: Menhirs. Witnesses of the cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 72-73.
  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 295, 329-330.
  • 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. 160.
  • Friedrich Kofler: The menhirs and long stones in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In: Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations. Volume 36, 1888, p. 127.
  • Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Mainz-Kostheim 2003, p. 103.

Web links

Commons : Menhir von Essenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 329.