Menhir complex in Darmstadt

Menhir complex in Darmstadt
Menhir complex of Darmstadt (2017)
Coordinates	49 ° 52 '21.4 "  N , 8 ° 43' 41"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '21.4 "  N , 8 ° 43' 41"  E
place	Darmstadt , Hessen , Germany
Emergence	Neolithic

The menhir complex of Darmstadt (actually menhir complex "Hirtenwiese" ) is a stone circle in the district of Darmstadt in Hesse .

Location and description

The facility is located east of Darmstadt on the municipality border with Roßdorf north of the B26 and at the southern end of Scheftheimer Wiesen on the edge of the Hirtenwiese.

In 1966/1967 14 larger stones made of granite porphyry were discovered on the municipality boundary to Roßdorf . Its discoverer, the Roßdorf local researcher Heinrich Gunkel, identified it as a prehistoric stone circle complex of the Neolithic Age (middle of the 6th to the end of the 3rd millennium BC).

In 1993 the nature reserve "Scheftheimer Wiesen" was designated, in which the facility is also located. Since then, entry has only been possible with a special permit; access was not shown. Since February 2011, when the bridge over the Ruthsenbach and a new entrance to the menhirs were built, the stone circle complex can again be entered without a permit. The facility has been cleared of undergrowth and equipped with a display board.

The facility is unique in Hessen. In the vicinity there are settlement remains of the Neolithic Rössen culture and the Iron Age .

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  Information board for the menhir complex (2012)

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  Menhir plant (2012)

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  Menhir plant (2012)

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  Menhir plant (2012)

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  Menhir plant (2012)

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  Menhir system 2015 (the bench was moved)

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  Menhir plant 2015

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  Menhir plant 2017

See also

• List of menhirs in Hessen
• Scheftheim meadows

literature

• Günter Fries and others (arrangement): City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 377.
• Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 148–149.
• Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , pp. 339-340.
• Gisela Poser: The menhir between Darmstadt and Roßdorf in its cultural-historical context. Kulturhistorischer Verein Roßdorf e. V. 2007. ISBN 9783940456007 .
• Robert H. Schmidt: The menhir facility near Darmstadt and its chronological order. Find reports from Hessen, 14th year, 1974, pp. 309-348.
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : The Hessian Stonehenge , November 15, 2015, p. 46.

Web links

Commons : Darmstadt menhir  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neolithic menhir complex "Hirtenwiese"
• The Megalithic Portal: Darmstadt Stone Circle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 624
2. ↑ Neolithic menhir complex "Hirtenwiese": history on wandern-im-odenwald.kruemelhuepfer.de ; accessed on August 12, 2017