Menhir from Wersau
| Menhir from Wersau | |||
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 The menhir of Wersau |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 46 '50.8 " N , 8 ° 50' 59" E | ||
| place | Brensbach , OT Wersau , Hesse , Germany | ||
The menhir of Wersau is a prehistoric menhir near Wersau , a district of Brensbach in the Odenwald district in Hesse . The buried stone was discovered during field work in 1977 and erected again about 70 m from where it was found near the border of the Odenwald district and the Darmstadt-Dieburg district .
location
The stone is located west of Wersau on the edge of the forest. It stands on an eastern branch of the Bensenböhlskopf .
description
The menhir consists of Bergstrasse diorite ; the rock comes from the nearby Bensenböhlskopf. The stone is plate-shaped and slightly curved. Its part that is visible above ground is 180 cm high, 120 cm wide and 40 cm thick. Its total height is 295 cm; the widest point is underground and measures 150 cm.
literature
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 221.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 132-133, 155.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 331.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Wersau Menhir
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 155.