Menhir from Flörsheim-Dalsheim
| Menhir from Flörsheim-Dalsheim | |||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 39 '50.1 " N , 8 ° 12' 29.8" E | ||
| place | Flörsheim-Dalsheim , Alzey-Worms district , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Florsheim-Dalsheim is in Flörsheim-Dalsheim in Alzey-Worms in Rheinland-Pfalz discovered and now capped in menhir .
Location and description
The menhir was discovered in the early 1980s while plowing on the Mittelbühl mountain near Oberflörsheim. To protect it from destruction, it was set up by a local resident in his garden on Zwerchgasse. A bronze treasure and a Hallstatt tomb were discovered near the site .
The menhir is made of limestone and has a smooth surface. It has a height of 140 cm, a width of 60 cm and a depth of 44 cm. It is columnar with an oval cross-section, tapers upwards and ends in a point that has some depressions. Its exact meaning is unclear. Possibly it is just damage caused by weathering or plowing. But it could also be deliberate manipulations that should give the top of the stone the appearance of a stylized bird's head.
literature
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 60-61.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 294, 331.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 331.