Menhir from Waldeck
| Menhir from Waldeck High stone , big stone , activist stone | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '19.5 " N , 11 ° 47' 0.6" E | ||
| place | Waldeck , Thuringia , Germany | ||
The menhir of Waldeck (also known as Hoher Stein , Großer Stein and since 1954 as an activist stone ) is a menhir in the forest north of Waldeck in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia .
location
The stone is located about 700 m north of Waldeck, about 100 m west of the road leading to Thalbürgel directly on a forest path. Fragments of a Stone Age ax were discovered in 1953 just 3 m north of the menhir. Despite this find, it is unclear whether the stone is still in its original location, as the forest near Waldeck was "beautified" at a suggestion by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the stone was therefore only set up at its current location at that time could be. In the vicinity there are two other large stones, which could also be menhirs: The first is 1.4 km southeast at Bobeck , the second 1.5 km southwest at Thalbürgel.
description
The menhir consists of lignite quartzite . It has a total height of 377 cm (of which 320 cm above the ground), a width of 230 cm and a depth of 70 cm. It is plate-shaped and ends in a triangular point. On its front it bears the inscription “Activist stone - fame and honor to the creative people”, which was affixed in the 1950s. The inscription still seems to be renewed regularly.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 48, 488, 491.
- 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. 186.
- Michael Schmidt: The old stones. Travel to the megalithic culture in Central Europe. Rostock 1998, pp. 105-106.
- 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. 62.
- 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. 116.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Menhir of Bobeck
- ^ Menhir from Thalbürgel
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 491.