Menhir from Oberfarnstädt

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The menhir of Oberfarnstädt was a prehistoric menhir near Oberfarnstädt , a district of Farnstädt in the Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The stone was about 100 m behind the former estate, near the vineyard.

description

The menhir was pyramidal in shape and was 7 feet (2.2 m) high and 7.5 feet (2.3 m) wide. No information is available on the material. Its surface showed nine bowls and a modern borehole from a failed blast attempt.

Finds from the area around the menhir come from the Cord Ceramic Culture , from the Full Bronze Age , the Latène Age , the Migration Period and from the Middle Ages .

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 68.
  • A. Berg: The long stone or stone of gods from Seehausen near Magdeburg. In: Germania. 1933, p. 214.
  • AA Bergner: Collected contributions to German antiquities. Some news about the Heidensteine. In: Saxon Association for the Research of patriotic antiquities in Leipzig (ed.): Contributions to German antiquity. Volume I. Leipzig 1876, p. 118, plate VI, 5.
  • Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche: The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1909, p. 89 ( online ).
  • Christian Keferstein : Views on Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany. Volume I, Halle 1846, p. 43 ( online ).
  • 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. 180.
  • 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. 29.