Rillenstein from Stedesdorf
The Rillenstein von Stedesdorf stands on the Kirchwurt, on the north side of the free-standing bell tower of the St. Aegidien Church of Stedesdorf in the municipality of Esens in the Wittmund district in Lower Saxony .
The grooved stone consists of a small, round granite boulder, 45 cm high, tapering at the top , in which a groove is worked all around. Karl-Heinrich Marschalleck discovered the boulder in 1962 under the floor of the village church, where it served as a pillar in the previous church. It may be that it was consciously integrated into the church as a pagan stone monument.
When and with what intention the groove, which gives the stone a phallic appearance, was worked into the stone is unknown. The stone can be compared with similar stone workings , some of which are identified by archaeological findings as prehistoric cult stones.
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Schwarz: The Rillenstein in Stedesdorf , in: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany , Volume 35: Ostfriesland (edited by Rolf Bärenfänger ), Stuttgart 1999, pp. 164–165
- Detlef Schünemann: News from grooved and gutter stones. Attempt to form groups using exact profile measurements . The customer NF 43, 1992, pp. 67-97.
- Willi Wegewitz: The Rillenstein from the forester's house Hollenbeck, Kr. Stade . Stader Jahrbuch 1982, pp. 7-23.
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 33 " N , 7 ° 39 ′ 46.1" E