Menhir from Wallersheim

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Menhir from Wallersheim Landstein, Lahnstein, Langenstein
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Menhir from Wallersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Coordinates 50 ° 12 '22.8 "  N , 6 ° 31' 21.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '22.8 "  N , 6 ° 31' 21.3"  E
place Wallersheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany

The menhir of Wallersheim (also known as Landstein , Lahnstein or Langenstein ) is a menhir near Wallersheim in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The stone is located a good 100 m north of Wallersheim in a field. A Frankish burial ground was laid out around the stone in the 7th century , which was archaeologically examined in 1929 and 1963 .

description

The menhir is made of limestone . It has a height of 153 cm, a width of 80 cm and a depth of 40 cm. The stone is plate-shaped, tapers upwards and ends in an irregular point. Seen from the east it looks slightly anthropomorphic .

The menhir in regional sagas

According to a legend, the stone is said to turn around itself three times when the bells ring at noon on Good Friday .

literature

  • Otto Gödel: Menhirs - a scientific and folkloric contribution to our stone monuments. In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate. Volume 96, 1998, pp. 31, 35.
  • Siegfried Gollub : A Franconian cemetery with menhir near Wallersheim, Krs. Bitburg-Prüm. In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch. Volume 17, 1977, pp. 134-138.
  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 287, 348–349.
  • 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. 153.
  • Volker Kneidl: The "Nusbaumer Menhirs" on the Ferschweiler Plateau, Bitburg-Prüm district. In: Trier magazine. Volume 67/68, 2004/5, p. 19.
  • Paul Steiner: Annual report 1934. In: Trier magazine. Volume 10, 1935, pp. 145-146.
  • Josef Steinhausen: Archaeological settlement studies of the Trier country. Trier 1936, p. 521.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 348.