Menhir of Schraplau
| Schraplau menhir | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '27 " N , 11 ° 39' 24.6" E | ||
| place | Schraplau , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The Schraplau menhir (also called Kutschstein or Blue Stone ) was a prehistoric menhir near Schraplau in the Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt . It was probably destroyed in the late 20th century.
location
The stone was on the northwestern outskirts of Schraplau on the way to Alberstedt. A limestone quarry now extends to its former location.
description
When Waldtraut Schrickel investigated it in the 1950s, the stone was no longer upright. It consisted of blue-gray quartzite and was 0.9 m long, 0.5 m wide and protruded 0.22 m from the ground. Its surface was full of holes and a series of iron nails had been driven into it.
According to Schrickel, the term “blue stone” could indicate an earlier use as a legal monument.
Finds from the area around the stone come from the Band Ceramic Culture , the Baalberg Culture , the Bernburg Culture , the Cord Ceramic Culture , from the Full Bronze Age , the Iron Age and the Slavic Early Middle Ages .
The menhir in regional sagas
There were several legends about the menhir : a long time ago a countess was said to have been cursed into the earth with her carriage. According to a similar legend, an evil knight drove by here. Then a thunderstorm arose and the knight, with his chariot and horses, sank in an instant. According to a third legend, at midnight a burning light moves towards the stone and then disappears.
literature
- H. Becker: The bacon side at Aschersleben. In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity. Volume 22, 1889, p. 394.
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 68.
- A. Berg: The long stone or stone of gods from Seehausen near Magdeburg. In: Germania. 1933, p. 214.
- Hermann Großler : Old Holy Stones in the Province of Saxony. In: New Years Papers. No. 20, 1896, p. 11.
- 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, p. 58.