Menhir from Mittelbrunn
| Menhir from Mittelbrunn Langenstein, The Long Stone | |||
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 The Mittelbrunn menhir |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '16.2 " N , 7 ° 32' 46.9" E | ||
| place | Mittelbrunn , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Mittelbrunn (also known as Langenstein or Der Lange Stein ) is a menhir near Mittelbrunn in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The stone is probably still in its original location. It stands north of Mittelbrunn on a field between the highest points of a saddle-like ridge. An old mountain trail and the border between Mittelbrunn and Landstuhl ran here . The menhir was first mentioned as a boundary stone in 1529.
description
The menhir is made of red sandstone . It has a height of 176 cm, a width of 87 cm and a depth of 45 cm. The stone is pillar-shaped, slightly curved and ends in a rounded tip. Its surface shows numerous incisions. On the northwest side there is a cross as a border marking, on the other sides several initials and the year 1852. Otto Gödel also thought he could recognize the heavily weathered relief of a person. On the west side of the stone a piece was blasted off in the middle of the 19th century to make a bench out of it.
literature
- Ernst Christmann: Menhirs and menhirs in the Palatinate. Speyer 1947, p. 19.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs. Witnesses of the cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 112ff.
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 291.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 262–265, 338.
- 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. 149.
- Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Mainz-Kostheim 2003, p. 104.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Mittelbrunn Langer Stein
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 338.