Menhir of Ettersburg
| Menhir of Ettersburg The long stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 1 '56.8 " N , 11 ° 16' 29.1" E | ||
| place | Ettersburg , Thuringia , Germany | ||
The menhir of Ettersburg (also known as the long stone ) is a no longer standing menhir in Ettersburg in the district of Weimarer Land in Thuringia .
location
Today the stone is located directly in Ettersburg, in the park east of the collegiate church of St. Justinus and St. Laurentius . It no longer stands upright and is used as a bench . Its original location was in front of the Gottesackerlinde in front of the old churchyard. It was removed from there so that a war memorial could be erected in the same place . The former location in front of the churchyard could indicate that the menhir was used as a court or execution place in the Middle Ages .
description
The menhir is made of shell limestone . It has a height of 190 cm, a width of 95 cm and a depth of 28 cm. It is plate-shaped and rectangular. The side that is now on top and serves as a seat seems to have been smoothed out, but the underside is probably still in its original state. The shape of the menhir does not seem to have changed significantly.
The menhir in regional sagas
A regional legend revolves around the stone. According to this, two giants once mowed their meadows. One did this in Buttelstedt , the other on the Ettersberg. When the giant on the Ettersberg needed a whetstone for his scythe , the giant in Buttelstedt threw one to him. But he aimed too short and so the stone landed in Ettersburg. The menhir of Buttelstedt the same announcement is exactly told, only in reverse.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 486, 491.
- 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, pp. 23, 28-29.
- 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. 114–115.
