Menhir from Freinsheim
| Menhir from Freinsheim The long stone | |||
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 The menhir of Freinsheim |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 30 '4.2 " N , 8 ° 12' 56.8" E | ||
| place | Freinsheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Freinsheim (also known as the long stone ) is a menhir near Freinsheim in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The stone is located on the southern outskirts of Freinsheim between a new settlement and the Freinsheim – Frankenthal railway line . An old military road ran at this point between Mühlheim an der Eis and Meckenheim . The Lange Stein was first mentioned in a document in connection with this street in the middle of the 18th century. Nevertheless, it was initially overlooked by science in the following years before it was made known again by Otto Gödel in the 1980s . The street Am Langenstein runs a few meters northeast of its location.
description
The menhir consists of red sandstone , which is located 10 km west of Peterskopf . It has a height of 150 cm, a width of 47 cm and a depth of 35 cm. The menhir is pillar-shaped and has a rounded top. The signature “EF 86” is incised on the western side.
Otto Godel holds the stone due to its shape for a Latène (about 450 v. Chr. Up to the turning point) grave stele , but there is no archaeological findings or findings that support this interpretation.
literature
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs. Witnesses of the cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 86ff.
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 291.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 278–279, 331–332.
- Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Mainz-Kostheim 2003, p. 104.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Freinsheim Langer Stein
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 331.