Menhir of Nohra
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '47.7 " N , 10 ° 42' 52.8" E | ||
| place | Nohra , Nordhausen District , Thuringia , Germany | ||
The menhir of Nohra (popularly called Hünstein or Hunnenstein ) is a menhir near Nohra in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .
location
Today the stone stands about 500 m southeast of Nohra in Hünstein directly at a crossroads. It was originally located further south on a parcel called "The Stone Bed". 400 m away is an end-Neolithic - Early Bronze Age burial ground .
description
The menhir is made of shell limestone . It has a height of 140 cm, a width of 120 cm and a depth of 25 cm. It is plate-shaped, tapers upwards and ends in a rounded tip. In the middle area it has a continuous natural hole. It was re-edged after 2005 and has continued to protrude from the ground ever since.
The menhir in regional sagas
The names "Hünenstein" and "Hunnenstein" go back to two regional legends. According to the first legend, the stone was thrown from the Wewelsburg to Nohra by a giant princess who was fighting a competition with a giant . According to the second legend, a general of the " Huns " (actually a Magyar ) is buried under the stone , who is said to have been slain in 933 in the battle of Riyadh .
literature
- Paul Grimm : Grave field, settlement and menhir of the End Stone Age near Nohra, district of Hohenstein. In: Mannus. Volume 24, 1932, pp. 244-256.
- Paul Grimm: Of upright stones (menhirs) in Central Germany. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Volume 3, Issue 4, 1936, 69.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 483, 491.
- 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. 185.
- 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, pp. 50–51.
- 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 , p. 111.
