Menhir from Ober-Mörlen
| Menhir from Ober-Mörlen | |||
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 The menhir of Ober-Mörlen |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 23 '32.2 " N , 8 ° 41' 12" E | ||
| place | Ober-Mörlen , Hessen , Germany | ||
The menhir of Ober-Mörlen is a prehistoric menhir near Ober-Mörlen in the Wetterau district in Hesse . The buried stone was discovered in 1975 and erected again.
location
The stone is located north of Ober-Mörlen, about halfway to Ostheim in a field and can be reached via a dirt road and surrounded by a group of trees. It is located on gently sloping terrain 2.5 km northeast of the Galgenberg. Its installation site is 750 m west of the site.
description
The menhir consists of breccia , which is mainly composed of milk quartz , cap quartz and slate rubble ; the material comes from the nearby Galgenberg. The stone is plate-shaped and rounded at the top. It has a height of 250 cm, a width of 200 cm and a depth of 110 cm.
literature
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 220.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 134–135, 153.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 459.
Web links
Commons : Menhir von Ober-Mörlen - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- The Megalithic Portal: Menhir Ober-Mörlen
- DenkXweb: Menhir from Ober-Mörlen
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 153.