Menhir of Schatthausen
| Menhir of Schatthausen The Lange Stein, Heidensäule, Marktsaul, Steinerne Saull | |||
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 Menhir from Schatthausen, north-east side, height approx. 2.50 m |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 18 '40 " N , 8 ° 45' 59.4" E | ||
| place | Wiesloch , OT Schatthausen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany | ||
| Emergence | Hallstatt time ? | ||
The menhir of Schatthausen (also called Der Lange Stein , Heidensäule , Marktsaul or Steinerne Saull ) is a possible prehistoric menhir near Schatthausen , a district of Wiesloch in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg .
Location and find history
The stone is located south of Schatthausen, above the marshy confluence of two streams. Originally it was likely to have stood on a burial mound and was later moved to its current location as a boundary stone for the Electoral Palatinate and the diocese of Speyer .
description
The menhir is made of red sandstone . It is columnar, has a round cross-section, tapers towards the top and is completely machined. On the south side it has a grinding trough and a 30 cm long grooving groove. A square hole is carved into its crown, in which perhaps a cross, an image of a saint or a court or market flag was set. The stone has a height of 250 cm and a diameter of 40 cm at the bottom and 25 cm at the crown. According to Horst Kirchner , the stone may have originally stood as a grave stele on a Hallstatt burial mound.
The menhir in regional sagas
According to local tradition, a cattle market was held every year on the stone.
literature
- 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. 66.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 70–71, 91–92.
- 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, pp. 119, 143, 145-146.
- Siegfried Kurz: Shading usage in the western Hallstatt culture (= Tübingen writings on prehistoric and early historical archeology. Volume 2), Waxmann, Münster 1987, ISBN 978-3830953869 , p. 59 ( limited online version ).
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Heidensäule (The Long Stone, Marksaul, Stone Saul)
- Local newspaper WiWa-Lokal: Stone witness to long forgotten cultures - the menhir of Schatthausen