Menhir from Jesewitz

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The Jesewitz menhir was a presumably prehistoric menhir on the Golmsberg near Jesewitz in the district of northern Saxony . It was an altar-like stone, probably an originally erect and later overturned menhir. In 1860 it was blown up. Information on the material and its dimensions are not available. A more precise chronological classification is also not possible, as no finds are known from its immediate vicinity.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 71.
  • Johannes Felix , Max Näbe : About relationships of stone monuments and erratic blocks to cult, to legends and folk customs. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig. Volume 42, 1915, pp. 11-12.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1. Catalog Leipzig 1957, p. 72.