Menhir from Roßberg
| Menhir from Roßberg | |||
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_002.jpg) The Udenhausen church stump with the menhir built as a door post |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 42 '15.1 " N , 8 ° 52' 37.6" E | ||
| place | Ebsdorfergrund , OT Roßberg , Hesse , Germany | ||
The menhir of Roßberg is a prehistoric menhir near Roßberg , a district of Ebsdorfergrund in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse . It is installed as a door post in an early medieval church ruin.
location
The stone is located south of Roßberg in a forest in the area of the Udenhausen desert . It is installed there as the door post of the church (the Udenhausen church stump), which was probably built in the 8th or 9th century ( Carolingian period ), where it clearly towers above the remaining stones.
description
The menhir is made of basalt . It is plate-shaped and tapers towards the top. The stone has a height of 110 cm, a width of 100 cm and a thickness of 60 cm. Due to its secondary use, it has a bolt hole.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 131, 153–154.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 173.
- Irene Kappel: Stone chamber tombs and menhirs in Northern Hesse (= Guide to North Hessian Prehistory and Early History. Volume 5). Kassel 1978, p. 69.
- 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. 172.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Rossberg Menhir
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 153-154.