Menhir of Morl

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Menhir of Morl
The menhir of Morl

The menhir of Morl
Menhir of Morl (Saxony-Anhalt)
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Coordinates 51 ° 32 '27.3 "  N , 11 ° 54' 19.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '27.3 "  N , 11 ° 54' 19.5"  E
place Petersberg , OT Morl , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany

The menhir of Morl is a menhir near Morl , a district of Petersberg (Saalekreis) in Saxony-Anhalt .

Location and description

The menhir is located about 2 km southwest of Morl and about 1 km north of the Saale on an elevated terrain. It originally stood on the old salt road between Halle (Saale) and Wettin . Several stones are said to have originally stood on this road, including some nail stones . The terrain belonged temporarily to a military training area of the NVA . When it was disbanded in 1997, the stone was almost removed. But it was finally set up again 25 m southeast of its original location. There are several burial mounds in the vicinity : 1.7 km southeast of the only surviving of the original five burial mounds of Morl and 1.9 km southwest of the two burial mounds of Brachwitz . Another menhir is located 3 km to the southwest: The Stone Jungfrau in Dölau .

The menhir consists of lignite quartzite and has partly turned black due to weathering. It has a height of 140 cm, a width of 92 cm and a depth of 42 cm. It is plate-shaped and slopes upwards.

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. 396–397, 457.
  • 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, p. 50.
  • Erhard Schröter: soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 91.
  • Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony. 2nd edition, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-799-8 , pp. 88-89.
  • Bodo Wemhöner, Ralf Schwarz: Routes of archeology. Hall and the hall circle. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-910010-97-X , pp. 58–59.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 457.