Menhir from Feldengel
| Menhir from Feldengel The long stone | |||
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 Menhir from Feldengel |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 16 '54.2 " N , 10 ° 56' 41.9" E | ||
| place | Grossenehrich , Thuringia , Germany | ||
The menhir of Feldengel (also known as Der Lange Stein ) is a menhir in Feldengel , a district of Großenehrich in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .
location
The stone is located about 650 m north of Feldengel and 100 m west of the road leading to Holzengel directly on a dirt road. The terrain slopes slightly to the south at this point.
description
The menhir is made of tufa . It has a height of 211 cm, a width of 80 cm and a depth of 16 cm. It is plate-shaped and rounded at the top. In the middle lower area of the southern broadside it has a hole the size of a fist. There are other, smaller flakes around this.
The menhir in regional sagas
There are several legends about the stone: It is said to have marked the border between the principalities of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . It should also be a holy stone. Furthermore, an officer is said to be buried under him. Britta Schulze-Thulin also thinks it is possible that he originally carried the name "Feldengel" and thus gave the place its name.
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. 485, 491.
- Heinz Köber: To the menhirs of Thuringia. In: excavations and finds. Volume 6, Issue 5, 1961, pp. 235-236.
- 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. 111-112.
