Traben-Trarbach monolith
| Traben-Trarbach monolith Red goddess from Mont Royal | |||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 57 '1 " N , 7 ° 7' 15.6" E | ||
| place | Traben-Trarbach , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The Traben-Trarbach monolith (also known as the Red Goddess of Mont Royal ) is a possible menhir in Traben-Trarbach in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The stone was found in 1958 by the sculptor Helmut Wendhut on the edge of the Mont Royal north of Traben-Trarbach . It was then placed in Wendhut's garden at Untere Kaiserstraße 4 in the south of Traben-Trarbach, where it is still located today.
description
The monolith is made of red sandstone . It has a height of 130 cm, a width of 50 cm and a depth of 36 cm. The stone is plate-shaped and ends in a roof-shaped point. Its surface has several holes. A particularly large one with a depth of 16 cm is about a third of the height of the stone. Two more holes just below the point are interpreted by Helmut Wendhut as artificially drilled eyes. He also thinks he can see picked eyebrows and a nose. In his opinion it is an anthropomorphic menhir; he compares it with the dolmen goddess of Langeneichstädt ( Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt ). A scientific investigation of the stone has not yet taken place.
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. 294, 347.
- Helmut Wendhut: The red goddess from Mont Royal. A cult stele from the Mesolithic Age (approx. 3000 BC). In: Yearbook of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district. 1994, pp. 271-274.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Red Goddess from Mont Royal
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 347.