Menhir from Nackenheim

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Menhir from Nackenheim The long stone
The menhir of Nackenheim

The menhir of Nackenheim
Menhir from Nackenheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Coordinates 49 ° 54 '45.2 "  N , 8 ° 19' 57.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '45.2 "  N , 8 ° 19' 57.3"  E
place Nackenheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany

The menhir of Nackenheim (also known as the Long Stone ) is a menhir near Nackenheim in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The stone originally stood on the Hohberg between Nackenheim and Bodenheim . There is a parcel of land called “Hinkeläcker” nearby. Sometime after 1955 it was moved to its current location on the western outskirts of Nackenheim at the confluence of Pfarrer-Denner-Strasse and Lörzweiler Strasse.

description

The menhir is made of limestone . It has a height of 120 cm, a width of 90 cm and a depth of 48 cm. The menhir is plate-shaped; the north-eastern broadside is badly weathered. The upper area of ​​the south-eastern narrow side is very smooth (possibly due to frequent touching).

literature

  • Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, p. 21.
  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 295, 339.
  • 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. 161.
  • Friedrich Kofler : The menhirs and long stones in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In: Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations. Volume 36, 1888, p. 127.
  • Karl Schumacher : Archaeological map of the area around Mainz. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 3, 1908, p. 31.
  • Detert Zylmann : The riddle of the menhirs. Mainz-Kostheim 2003, p. 103.

Web links

Commons : Menhir von Nackenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 339.