Menhir complex from Mahlsdorf
| Menhir complex from Mahlsdorf | |||
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 Menhir 1 in front of the churchyard wall |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 47 '36.1 " N , 11 ° 13' 56.5" E | ||
| place | Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir complex of Mahlsdorf is a prehistoric menhir complex in Mahlsdorf , a district of Salzwedel in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt , which has only survived in remains . It has only recently been recognized as such.
location
The menhir is located directly in the village at the Sankt Sebastian Church, built around 1220 . It still consists of three stones, two of which are in front of the churchyard wall. The third is right on the southeast corner of the church.
description
Three stones from the complex are still preserved today. The first stands directly in front of the south side of the churchyard wall. It is plate-shaped and tapers towards the top. It consists of black-gray sedimentary rock and has a height of 1.26 m, a width of 0.85 m and a thickness of 0.45 m. On the north side it has a number of very wide and deep bowls .
The second stone is 12 m east of this. It is leaning against a modern stone pillar and is partially cemented in. The menhir is angular and has a rectangular cross-section. It is made of red granite and is 1.58 m high, 0.72 m wide and 0.40 m thick.
The third stone is located 26 m northwest of Menhir 2 directly on the outside of the church. It is block-shaped and steeply inclined. It consists of reddish sedimentary rocks and has a height of 1.25 m, a width of 0.75 m and a thickness of 0.45 m.
To the south-east of the church there was a fourth stone, about the destruction of which there are various reports. It is said to have been destroyed either during road construction work in the 1930s or more recently when a house was demolished. According to a third version, he was still standing until about 1992 without any information about his disappearance being given here. The stone stood about 8 m east of menhir 2 and formed a row with this and menhir 1.
Possibly the place name Mahlsdorf goes back to the menhir complex (the old "Mal"). It is also noteworthy that stones 1 and 3 are roughly in line with the altar of the church.
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. 420–422, 457.
- Lothar Mittag : The Lehnekenstein near Bonese - a prehistoric menhir and the Lehnekenberg near Dahrendorf / Gröningen (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel). In: Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Großsteingraves der Altmark . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-939414-03-4 , p. 178.
