Menhir from Gumbsheim
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 48 '50.7 " N , 7 ° 59' 33" E | ||
| place | Gumbsheim , Alzey-Worms district , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Gumbsheim (perhaps once known as menhir called) is a menhir at Gumbsheim in Alzey-Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The menhir was discovered in a ditch east of Gumbsheim in 1927. A path called "Hinkelpfad" passes nearby. This could originally have been called "Hinkelsteinpfad" and the name ultimately goes back to a designation for the stone. After it was recovered, the stone was placed on the bank of the trench near the Armsheim bridge. In 2002 it was rammed by a construction vehicle and broke in the lower area. A subsequent attempt at restoration failed. After it was damaged again in the following years, it was finally moved to its current location at the Böckelheimer Brücke in 2004. Its lower part remained in its original location.
The menhir consists of calcified pebble conglomerate, the place of origin of which the sand pits near Eckelsheim , about 4 km to the south, could be determined. The stone has a smooth surface. It originally had a height of 315 cm, a width of 70 cm and a depth of 30 cm. In its current state, it is still 220 cm high, 60 cm wide and 22 cm deep. Today it is columnar with an oval cross-section, tapers towards the top and ends in a rounded tip. On old photos, however, it can be seen that the lower part of the menhir had a triangular or square cross-section.
literature
- Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, p. 22.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, pp. 91-92.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 314-315, 332.
- 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. 161.
- Ludwig Jung, Karl Adam Schultheiß: The Gumbsheimer menhir in a new location. In: Homeland yearbook of the Alzey-Worms district. Volume 40, 2005, pp. 161-162.
- Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-936326-07-9 , p. 103.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 332.