Menhir from Saubach
| Menhir from Saubach The long stone, Hermenfriedstein, Irminfriedstein, Hoher Stein | |||
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 The Saubach menhir |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '35.3 " N , 11 ° 32' 30.6" E | ||
| place | Finneland , OT Saubach , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir of Saubach (also called the long stone , Hermenfriedstein , Irminfriedstein or Hoher Stein ) is a menhir near Saubach , a district of Finneland in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
The menhir is located about 1.5 km northeast of Saubach, directly west of a dirt road on a slope gently sloping to the south-west. It was originally located a little further to the west and was moved to its current location during the separation in the 19th century.
It consists of coarse-grained brown coal quartzite and has the shape of a flat, almost rectangular plate. It is a little wider at the top than at the bottom. The stone has a height of 185 cm, a width between 45 and 57 cm and a depth between 20 and 25 cm. Its surface is badly weathered and there are signs of processing on the back.
Finds from the area around the menhir come from the ribbon ceramics , the cord ceramic culture , the bell beaker culture and the full bronze age .
The menhir in regional sagas
According to a legend, Irminfried , the last king of the Thuringian Empire, was murdered on this stone . Other variants of this legend report only from a not named significant personality or simply from a person.
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. 413, 459.
- 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, pp. 53–56.
- Erhard Schröter : soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 84.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 103.
Web links
- KLEKs Online: Menhir Long Stone
- suehnekreuz.de: suehnekreuz.de - Saubach (II)