Menhir from Farschweiler

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The Farschweiler menhir

The menhir of Farschweiler (also known as Hinkelstein ) is a menhir near Farschweiler in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is believed that the menhir is an earlier Celtic boundary stone and was moved 50 meters for the purpose of reclamation.

Location and description

The menhir was only discovered in 1929 and is located northeast of Farschweiler on the edge of the Osburger Hochwald and on the northern slope of the Hohe Wurzel . In the immediate vicinity is the Iron Age Kühonn burial mound field . A good two kilometers south-east in the middle of the forest is a stone, often referred to as the " menhir " by Beuren , which is sometimes referred to as a menhir because it is in line with the menhir from Farschweiler and the menhir from Thomm . But since it has no external resemblance to other menhirs, it should be regarded as a natural stone.

Farschweiler's lying menhir is made of slate and has a very rugged surface. It has a height of 320 cm, a width of 90 cm and a depth of 80 cm. It is irregularly shaped, tapers towards the former upper end and ends in a rounded tip.

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. 306, 330.
  • Alfred Haffner: Menhir, grave stele or boundary stone? On a dated »menhir« from Bescheid / Lorscheid, Trier-Saarbuch district. In: Finds and excavations in the Trier district. From the work of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Volume 39, 2007, p. 19.
  • 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. 154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 330.

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 17.5 "  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 26"  E