Pfingstberg (Latdorf)

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The menhir on the Pfingstberg

The Pfingstberg (also called Fähnrichsberg ) is a burial mound crowned by a menhir near Latdorf , a district of Nienburg (Saale) in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The menhir is also known as the pillar of the dead or the Swedish stone .

Location and description

The burial mound is right on the road between Bernburg and Latdorf on a right-hand bend. It is one of nine burial mounds and large stone graves (including the large stone grave Bierberg and the large stone grave Heringsberg ) in the vicinity of Bernburg and Latdorf, which together form the "Latdorf Stone Age Landscape". The Pfingstberg is the only one of these monuments that has not yet been excavated, which is why only a few statements can be made about the burial mound itself.

The menhir crowning it consists of yellowish-gray sandstone, which has taken on a black-gray color due to weathering. It has a height of 194 cm, a width of 43 cm and a depth of 40 cm. It is pillar-shaped, possibly processed, and tapers upwards at an angle.

The Pfingstberg in regional legends

According to a legend, a Swedish ensign is said to have been shot and buried on the Pfingstberg . This is where the names "Fähnrichsberg" for the burial mound and "Schwedenstein" for the menhir come from.

literature

  • Wilhelm Albert von Brunn : Knowledge and care of the ground monuments in Anhalt. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 41/42, 1958, pp. 28-71.
  • Wilhelm Alber von Brunn: The Bernburg burial mounds. Its history and its significance for the vertical stratigraphy of the late Neolithic. In: Prehistoric Journal. Volume 52, 1977, pp. 4-27.
  • Jochen Fahr: barrows, menhirs and subsequent burials. The stone age landscape of Latdorf. In: Harald Meller (Ed.): Archeology at Kalkteich 22 in Latdorf. The chemistry is right! Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt, special volume 9, 2008, pp. 21–24.
  • Fabian Gall: Stone Age Landscape Latdorf. Small booklets on archeology in Saxony-Anhalt 1. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2003, p. 9.
  • Paul Grimm : Of upright stones (menhirs) in Central Germany. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Volume 3, Issue 4, 1936, pp. 67-68.
  • Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 394, 456–457.
  • 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 in 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 177.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, p. 12ff.
  • Erhard Schröter: soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 67.
  • Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony. 2nd edition, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-799-8 , pp. 70–71.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 456-457.
  2. ^ Waldtraut Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. P. 14.

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 20.8 "  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 18.3"  E