Menhir from Sippersfeld
| Menhir from Sippersfeld Babenstein or cardboard stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 33 '14.6 " N , 7 ° 55' 27.9" E | ||
| region | Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir of Sippersfeld (also known as Babenstein or Pappernstein ) is a menhir near Sippersfeld in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The menhir is located west of Sippersfeld on a field below the highest point of an elevation. A road passes about 20 m to the north. 250 m to the south-west there is a burial mound field from the younger Hallstatt period , 1.6 km to the north-west of the Lange Stein von Gonbach .
The menhir is made of red sandstone . It has a height of 50 cm, a width of 40 cm and a depth of 36 cm. It is shaped like a cuboid and has three parallel grooves on one side. The stone is only the stump of a former menhir. Due to its shape, it was sometimes viewed as a medieval or modern object. However, it cannot be a boundary stone , as there was never a boundary at this point. It is too thick for the base of an atonement cross ; at most, it would be possible to enlarge the shaft for a devotional cross or a wayside shrine .
The menhir in regional sagas
Both names of the stone go back to a legend: According to this, depending on the variant, it should be a memorial stone for the last knight of Babenstein or for a general or count of Pappernheim who was killed at this point in the battle. However, no noble family from the Palatinate is known that bore one of these names.
literature
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 157ff.
- 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. 30.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 315, 345–346.
- Berthold Schnabel: Stone Crosses in the Northern Palatinate. In: North Palatinate History Association . Contributions to local history. No. 2/4, 1976, pp. 33-34.
- Fred Weinmann: Stone crosses and wayside shrines in the Palatinate (= information sheets of the German stone cross research. Volume 29, issue 9). Nuremberg 1973.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 345-346.
- ↑ suehnekreuz.de: Sippersfeld