Menhir of Orlishausen

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The menhir of Orlishausen , also called menhir of Frohndorf , menhir of Schloßvippach , Langer Stein or Hoher Stein , was a prehistoric menhir near Orlishausen , a district of Sömmerda in the Sömmerda district , Thuringia . It was destroyed in the middle of the 20th century.

location

The menhir was located between Orlishausen and Sprötau in the parcel “An der Aspe”, on a dirt road running parallel to the road between Schloßvippach and Orlishausen. The Galgenberg is in the immediate vicinity. South of Orlishausen is a piece of land called "Am Lange Stein". It is possible that the menhir originally stood there and was only later moved to its final location as a boundary stone .

description

There is no information about the material and shape of the stone. Its height was about 150 cm. Finds from the area around the stone come from the Cord Ceramic Culture , the Aunjetitz Culture and the Full Bronze Age . Waldtraut Schrickel could no longer find the menhir when it was recorded in the 1950s. It had been destroyed a few years earlier during a land consolidation .

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 73.
  • A. Berg: The long stone or stone of gods from Seehausen near Magdeburg. In: Germania. 1933, p. 214.
  • 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.
  • B. Liebers: Holy stones in the Eckartsberga district. In: Home calendar for the Eckartsberga district. Eckartsberga 1937, p. 38.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1. Catalog Leipzig 1957, p. 52.