Menhir from Rottenburg-Herderstrasse
| Menhir from Rottenburg-Herderstrasse | |||
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 29 '0.5 " N , 8 ° 56' 24.8" E | ||
| place | Rottenburg am Neckar (originally), Konstanz (today), Baden-Württemberg , Germany | ||
The menhir from Rottenburg-Herderstraße is an incompletely preserved ornate prehistoric menhir from Rottenburg am Neckar in the Tübingen district in Baden-Württemberg . Today it is in the Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg in Constance .
Location and find history
The stone was found in the north of the city of Rottenburg on Herderstrasse. It was 270 m from an early Bronze Age cemetery. Only a few hundred meters to the northeast, two more ornate menhirs were discovered in Lindele .
description
The menhir is apparently made of sandstone . It has the shape of an irregular plate and is only partially preserved. The fragment obtained has a length of 99 cm, a width of 67 cm and a thickness of 33 cm. Two highly stylized cattle with a common yoke are depicted on the stone from above. The part of the depiction behind it has not survived, a car was probably shown here. In front of the cattle there are also nine bowls sunk into the stone.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 91.
- Ernst Probst : The Arbon culture in Germany. A Bronze Age culture from around 1800 to 1600 BC Chr. Norderstedt 2011, pp. 36–37, 39.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 91.