Menhir of Güsten
| Menhir of Güsten Bacon side, Guddenstein | |||
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 The lying menhir by Güsten |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 47 '53.2 " N , 11 ° 36' 47.7" E | ||
| place | Güsten , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir of Güsten (also called bacon side or Guddenstein ) is a converted menhir that has been converted into a monument in Güsten in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
There is different information about the original location of the stone. Horst Kirchner located him south of the Güsten train station. More likely, however, is a location 300 m northwest of the station. The field name "Speckseite" is noted there on a measuring table . It was later implemented and is now in the north of Güsten in the Zwickel between Friedhofstrasse and Walter-Munke-Strasse. Another menhir is located 5.6 km south: the bacon side .
The menhir is made of quartzite . Its height is 370 cm, the width 140 cm and the depth 58 cm. It is plate-shaped and strongly fissured. The remains of nails that were previously driven in and three signs can be seen. It probably served as an upright memorial for some time, but was later laid flat on a bed made of smaller stones. In front of the menhir there is a stone tablet on which the name of the city is derived from the name of the stone:
“He came to us on Ice's back.
In the distant past, a sacrificial stone
, he gave our place its name.
Gudenesstein
Guddenstein Guzsten Güsten
970 1278 1373 "
No prehistoric finds from the area around the stone are known. The only remains are from the Middle Ages .
literature
- Heinrich Becker: The bacon side at Aschersleben. In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity. Volume 22, 1889, p. 391 ( online ).
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 415, 453–454.
- 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. 183.
- 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. 36–37.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 80.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Guddenstein (Bacon Side)
- tw.strahl.org: implemented, lying menhir "Speckseite", Güsten near Bernburg
- grosssteingraeber.de: The menhir in Güsten near Aschersleben