Menhir from Trebnitz

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The menhir of Trebnitz was probably a prehistoric menhir near Trebnitz , a district of Könnern in the Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The stone was located east of Trebnitz and north of the Galgenberg on the fire column field. According to a legend , witch burnings are said to have taken place on the cremation grave field .

description

All that is known about the stone is that it was columnar. Information on the material and its dimensions are not available. Nothing is known about the time of its destruction either.

Finds from the area around the menhir come from the Corded Pottery culture and from the Slavic early Middle Ages .

literature

  • 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. 64.
  • 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. 61.