Menhir of minced puffle

Menhir of minced puffle Long stone
	Menhir of minced puffle
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '12.9 " N , 11 ° 12' 8.6" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '12.9 " N , 11 ° 12' 8.6" E
place	Bridge Hackpfüffel , OT Hackpfüffel , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany

The menhir of Hackpfüffel (also called Langer Stein ) is a menhir in Hackpfüffel , a district of Brücken-Hackpfüffel in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .

Location and description

The menhir at its current location in front of the Hackpfüffel Church

The stone originally stood on a parcel called "Steinfleck" near the former court. In 1920 it was moved in front of the Hackpfüffel Church and used as a war memorial for those who fell in the First World War .

The menhir is made of yellowish sandstone . Its height is 200 cm, the width 20 cm and the depth 60 cm. It is plate-shaped and ends in a wedge-shaped tip. A metal plaque with the names of those who died in the World War II has been attached to one of the broad sides since 1920.

Only remains from the migration period are known of finds from the area around the stone .

literature

Alfred Berg: The Long Stone or Stone of Gods from Seehausen near Magdeburg. In: Germania. Volume 5, 1933, 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 , pp. 409, 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. 182.
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. 36–38.
Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 110.

Web links

Commons : Menhir Hackpfüffel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The Megalithic Portal: Menhir Hackpfüffel
tw.strahl.org: converted menhir of Hackpfüffel near Tilleda (Kyffhäuser), SW of Sangerhausen

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 454.
^ Waldtraut Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. P. 38.

[Groht-1] Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 454.

[Schrickel-2] Waldtraut Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. P. 38.