Pierre du Diable (Lécluse)
The Pierre du Diable ( German "Teufelsstein" ) by Lécluse is one of several boulders , menhirs or stone tables of this name (Allinges, Arq, Artas, Beuvry, Gesvres, Jambes, Haillot , Soubise - also in the plural as "Les Pierres") in Belgium , France and Switzerland .
The 3.05 meter high Pierre du Diable (also called La Borne-des-Pierres ) is located in the municipality of Lécluse in the Nord department near the towns of Dury , Étaing and Récourt , which are already in the neighboring Pas-de-Calais department .
Around 1900 it was still five meters high, but it is smaller today due to an earth job or blast, which was probably carried out during the First World War .
The figure of a devil and his claws should be recognizable on the cuboid stone about one meter wide and 0.6 m thick. According to a legend relating to several menhirs on the Pas-de-Calais and in Brittany , this devil's stone was also cast in its place by Satan.
literature
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
- Detert Zylmann : The riddle of the menhirs . Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 3-936326-07-X .
Web links
- Menhir dit La Pierre du Diable ou La Borne des Pierres in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 3 ° 1 ′ 33.5 ″ E