Menhir from Kortenbeck
The menhir of Kortenbeck is a menhir in Kortenbeck , a district of Dehre in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
Today the stone stands right in the center of Kortenbeck at the north end of the village square. It originally comes from near the Lehnekenberg near the neighboring town of Dahrendorf . It may have been part of a stone circle on the mountain that was destroyed today .
The menhir is made of red granite . Its height is 155 cm, the width 138 cm and the depth 100 cm. It has an approximately triangular cross-section and ends in a blunt point. It has one flat and one irregularly curved side. On the curved side, an artificial groove runs 40 cm below the point across half of the stone. A memorial plaque for village renewal was placed on the flat side in 1995.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 432, 455.
- Lothar Mittag: The Lehnekenstein near Bonese - a prehistoric menhir and the Lehnekenberg near Dahrendorf / Gröningen (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel). In: Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Großsteingraves der Altmark . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-939414-03-4 , p. 177.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 13.3 " N , 10 ° 53 ′ 42.4" E