Menhir from Steudten
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 12 '22 " N , 13 ° 12' 36.9" E | ||
| place | Stauchitz , Saxony , Germany | ||
The Steudten menhir is a prehistoric menhir near Steudten , a district of Stauchitz in the district of Meißen , Saxony .
location
The menhir is located south of Steudten and can be reached via the Zum Huthübel road and a field path that branches off from it. It stands on the top of an artificial hill called Huthübel and thus on the highest point in a wide area. Whether the Huthübel is a prehistoric burial mound cannot be said because it has not yet been archaeologically examined. Hill and menhir stand exactly on the former border between Steudten and the desert of Batera . The name Huthübel indicates that the place served as a court in the Middle Ages .
description
The menhir is made of quartz porphyry . It is irregularly shaped and tapers towards the top. It has a height of 185 cm, a width of 75 cm and a depth of 59 cm. Horst Kirchner thought that he could see a 7–8 cm sign below the tip, but this could not be confirmed either by Waldtraut Schrickel or by later authors.
The menhir in regional sagas
According to a legend , the German King Heinrich I is said to have led the siege of Gana , the main castle of the Slavic Daleminzians , from the Huthübel in 928/29.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 71.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt / State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 376–378, 381.
- 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. 188.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1. Catalog Leipzig 1957, pp. 72–73.
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt - Thuringia - Saxony. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , pp. 120-121.