Menhir from Gimritz

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The menhir of Gimritz (probably also called Langer Hüne or Teufelstein ) was a menhir near Gimritz , a district of Wettin-Löbejün in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

Location and description

The stone was located west of Gimritz on a hill, near the parcel "Devil's Kitchen". There it served as a stele on a burial mound . It was first described by Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra in 1913 , but it was probably located in a different place by mistake. The stone, which was still upright at that time, was found lying down by Waldtraut Schrickel in the 1950s and partially sunk into the ground. It was described in this state by Bodo Wemhöner in 2004 . Johannes Groht , on the other hand, was unable to find him again in 2005 and 2008 despite an extensive search. It seems to have been destroyed by now.

The menhir consisted of brown coal quartzite . Its height was 80 cm, the width 60 cm and the depth 30 cm. It was rectangular and had an irregular, unworked surface.

Finds from the area around the stone come from the band ceramic , the string ceramic culture , the full bronze age , the Slavic early Middle Ages and from the Middle Ages .

literature

  • Alfred Berg: The Long Stone or Stone of Gods from Seehausen near Magdeburg. In: Germania. Volume 5, p. 214.
  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 453.
  • 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 in 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 181.
  • Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra: Walks through the Saalkreis. Volume 1, Nietschmann, Halle (Saale) 1913.
  • Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra: Walks through the Saalkreis. Volume 2, Nietschmann, Halle (Saale) 1914.
  • 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, p.
  • Bodo Wemhöner: Small monuments in the urban district of Halle - an inventory. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. NF Volume 2, 2004, p. 79.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 453.
  2. ^ Waldtraut Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Pp. 11-12.
  3. ^ Waldtraut Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. P. 12.