Menhir from Zschoppach

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Menhir from Zschoppach Menhir from Draschwitz, Rugestein, Ruhestein
Menhir from Zschoppach

Menhir from Zschoppach
Menhir from Zschoppach (Saxony)
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Coordinates 51 ° 12 ′ 45.4 "  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 45.4 "  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 16"  E
place Grimma OT Draschwitz , Saxony , Germany

The menhir of Zschoppach , also called menhir of Draschwitz , Rugestein or Ruhestein , is a prehistoric menhir near Zschoppach , a town in the city of Grimma in the Leipzig district .

location

The menhir is located south of Draschwitz on the southeast slope of a hill. It stands directly on the former salt road between Grimma and Meißen , which could still be seen as a dirt road in the 1950s, but has now completely disappeared. In the Middle Ages , the menhir served as a place of justice , as the name Rugestein indicates.

description

The menhir consists of lignite quartzite . It is plate-shaped, has a rectangular cross-section and a wedge-shaped tip. It has a height of 180 cm, a width of 60 cm and a depth of 35 cm.

The menhir in regional sagas

There are numerous legends about the stone : it is said to stand on the grave of a great man from prehistoric times or to indicate the place where a peasant was struck by lightning. In the Thirty Years' War a treasure to have been buried here, should also have been searching for the later vain. Furthermore, two children are said to have tickled each other here. There is also said to have been a song from Rugestein, which was never written down and has since been forgotten.

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. 372–373, 382–383.
  • 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. 187.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1. Catalog Leipzig 1957, p. 75.
  • Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt - Thuringia - Saxony. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , p. 120.

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