Menhir from Obermoschel
| Menhir from Obermoschel | |||
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 The long stone of Obermoschel |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 44 '48.8 " N , 7 ° 46' 6.9" E | ||
| place | Obermoschel , Donnersbergkreis , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Obermoschel (also known as Der Lange Stein or Langenstein ) is a menhir near Obermoschel in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The menhir is located north of Obermoschel in a forest just below the highest point of a hill. A forest path leads past a few meters to the east. However, this does not seem to be its original location, as a border description from 1601 mentions that it was on an elevated road and on the border of Alsenz , Hallgarten and Niedermoschel . However, this limit point is at a completely different point. The stone seems to have reached its current location later. Immediately at this new location is a Middle Bronze Age burial mound field .
The menhir is made of melaphyr . It has a height of 182 cm, a width of 80 cm and a depth of 47 cm. It has a semicircular cross-section, is somewhat thickened in the middle and ends in a flat, rounded tip. Originally the stone had a round cross-section; the flat side was created by breaking off part of the stone, which is shown by three holes.
The menhir in regional sagas
It is said that little boys were told earlier that you could hear chickens beeping if you put your ear to the stone. When they did listen, their head was bumped roughly against the stone.
literature
- Ernst Christmann: Menhirs and menhirs in the Palatinate. Speyer n.d. (1947), pp. 23-24.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 126ff.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs - a scientific and folkloric contribution to our stone monuments. In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate. Volume 96, 1998, p. 30.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 291, 341.
- 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. 149.
- Detert Zylmann : The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3936326079 , p. 104.