Menhir from Niederprüm

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Menhir from Niederprüm Weißenstein, Wackenstein, Schloßhecker Menhir
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Menhir from Niederprüm (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Coordinates 50 ° 12 '20.9 "  N , 6 ° 25' 27.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '20.9 "  N , 6 ° 25' 27.8"  E
place Prüm , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany

The Niederprüm menhir (also known as Weißenstein , Wackenstein or Schloßhecker menhir ) is a menhir in Prüm in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The stone originally stood at Schloßheck on the border between Niederprüm and Orlenbach . In 1915 he was dug up by treasure hunters and killed. In 1933 it was moved as a memorial stone to its current location on Bahnhofstrasse in Prüm.

description

The menhir has a total height of 340 cm, of which 240 cm protrude from the ground; its width is 90 cm and its depth 85 cm. No information is available on the material. The menhir is approximately pillar-shaped and ends in a point; from about the middle its shape becomes irregular. One side is partially flattened.

In 1933 a memorial plaque was placed on the stone for five residents of the Prüm region who were shot in 1810 for refusing to join the French army. The inscription read:

"In loyalty to the fatherland, Matthias Meyer from Lissendorf Thiery Link from Feusdorf fell here for the freedom of the fatherland. Michel Heintz from Landscheid Matthias Billen from Landscheid Thiery Laurens from Bewingen. They were shot on the orders of Napoleon I on January 23, 1810."

After the Second World War , the plaque was removed by French soldiers. In their place an information board was put up with a short text about the menhir in German, French and English.

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. 269, 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. 153.
  • Paul Steiner: Annual report 1934. In: Trier magazine. Volume 10, 1935, p. 146.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 339.
  2. ^ The Megalithic Portal: Weissenstein