Menhir from Seeben
| Menhir from Seeben Franzosenstein | |||
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 The "Franzosenstein" near Halle-Seeben |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '32.6 " N , 11 ° 58' 49.4" E | ||
| place | Halle (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The "Franzosenstein" called menhir of Seeben is probably from the Neolithic originating menhir near Seeben , a district of the independent city hall in Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
The menhir stands between the Halle districts of Seeben in the northwest, Frohe Zukunft in the south and Trotha in the southwest - right on Franzosensteinweg at around 120 m above sea level. Above sea level. This route was part of the most important traffic connection between the cities of Halle and Magdeburg until the 18th century .
description
The menhir is made of porphyry and is 1.82 m high. It is 0.80 m wide at its base and 1.00 m wide at its thickest point. Its thickness is 0.50 m. On one side it has a modern, circular recess with a diameter of 0.12 m. Its viewing sides are oriented to the southeast and northwest. Finds from the Neolithic Age, the Bronze Age , the Iron Age , the Slavic Early Middle Ages and the Middle Ages come from the area around the menhir .
The Franzosenstein in regional sagas
The "Franzosenstein" belongs to a series of stones - above all the Teufelsstein von Sennewitz - around which a common legend revolves. Accordingly, the devil threw the stones from Petersberg at various churches , but missed them. Depressions in the stones were considered to be the devil's fingerprints.
The menhir owes its current name to another legend. A French officer is said to have been buried here, who died on May 2, 1813 in the battle of Halle .
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. 461.
- 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. 40.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony. 2nd Edition. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-799-8 , p. 89.
- Bodo Wemhöner , Ralf Schwarz : Routes of archeology. Hall and the hall circle. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-910010-97-X , pp. 38–40.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Franzosenstein Seeben
- KLEKs Online: Franzosenstein
- Thomas Witzke : Megalithic graves and menhirs in Saxony-Anhalt. Menhir "Franzosenstein", Seeben or Trotha near Halle on www.strahl.org
- grosssteingraeber.de: The menhir Seeben (Franzosenstein) near Halle , on grosssteingraeber.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Wemhöner / Schwarz, p. 38.
- ↑ Schrickel, p. 40.
- ↑ Wemhöner / Schwarz, p. 39.
- ↑ Wemhöner / Schwarz, p. 40.