Menhir from Martinshöhe
| Menhir from Martinshöhe Römerstein, Gollenstein, 'S Theiße Stään | |||
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 The Martinshöhe menhir |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 21 '44.9 " N , 7 ° 29' 6.1" E | ||
| place | Martinshöhe , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Martinshöhe (also known as Römerstein , Gollenstein or 'S Theiße Stään ) is a menhir in Martinshöhe in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The stone originally stood east of Martinshöhe on the Rösberg on the border with Langwieden . Later it was moved to a street in town. Some time later he was transferred across the street in front of the house of the Theiss family; hence the name "'S Theiße Stään" comes from. It was probably moved to its current location in the 1940s. It stands in a small park near the junction of the street Am Wasserturm and Zweibrücker Strasse.
description
The menhir is made of red sandstone . It has a height of 250 cm, a width of 100 cm and a depth of 60 cm. It was originally supposed to be twice as high and was shortened the second time it was implemented. The stone is pillar-shaped and ends in a wedge-shaped point. Its surface is badly weathered. In the upper area it has vertical erosion channels. It is said to have carried the inscription " SPQR ", from which the name "Römerstein" is derived. However, this inscription could no longer be made out in the 1940s.
It is entered in the list of cultural monuments in Martinshöhe .
literature
- Albert Becker: Gollenstein and Brunholdisstuhl. In: Germania. 1934, p. 82.
- Ernst Christmann: Menhirs and menhirs in the Palatinate. Speyer 1947, p. 8.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs. Witnesses of the cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 109ff.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 274–275, 336.
- 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. 148.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Römerstein (Theisse Stein)
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 336.