Seven stones from Preusslitz
| Seven stones Siebensteine, Rügensteine | |||
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 The Seven Stones of Preusslitz |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 43 '51.2 " N , 11 ° 48' 50.3" E | ||
| place | Preusslitz , Bernburg (Saale) , Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The seven stones or seven stones (also known as complaints stones hereinafter) are a group of stones in Preußlitz , a part of Bern (Saale) in Salzlandkreis in Saxony-indication , which are either the remains of a large stone grave or a Menhiranlage is.
Location and description
The stones are now in the southeast of Preusslitz in the Cörmigker Straße directly in front of a residential building opposite the cemetery. Nothing is known about its original location, except that it was a field in the vicinity of Preusslitz. One of the stones has been removed in the past few decades. In an investigation by Waldtraut Schrickel in the 1950s, all seven were still present.
All stones are unprocessed boulders . According to Schrickel, they had the following properties from left to right:
- A stone made of sandstone with a height of 49 cm, a width of 55 cm and a depth of 20 cm
- A stone made of sandstone with a height of 100 cm, a width of 130 cm and a depth of 27 cm
- A stone made of brown coal quartzite with a height of 86 cm, a width of 110 cm and a depth of 35 cm
- A stone made of reddish granite with a height of 130 cm, a width of 90 cm and a depth of 90 cm
- A stone made of sandstone with a height of 73 cm, a width of 50 cm and a depth of 19 cm
- A stone made of brown coal quartzite with a height of 115 cm, a width of 100 cm and a depth of 41 cm
- A stone made of gneiss with a height of 55 cm, a width of 60 cm and a depth of 20 cm (this stone is missing today)
There are two possible origins for the term “Rügensteine”: Either it goes back to the naming of the group as “a row of stones” or to the former function as a court of law (a complaint court).
The seven stones in regional legends
According to a legend, the seven stones are said to be petrified people. According to this, an old monk who had been expelled from his monastery once came to Preusslitz and wanted to disrupt the service on Sunday by playing a violin to dance. In fact, he was able to seduce three men and women into staying away from church and dancing. As a punishment, all seven were turned into stones.
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. 415, 458.
- 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, pp. 66–67.
- Erhard Schröter: soil monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 68.
- 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. 71-72.
- Friedrich Stahmann, Ludwig Züllich (ed.): Anhalt's sagas, fairy tales and legends. Gröning, Bernburg 1844, pp. 198–199.
Web links
- The destroyed large stone grave "Siebensteine" in Preusslitz
- destroyed large stone grave "Rügensteine" ("Riegesteine", "Siebensteine"), Preusslitz near Bernburg
- Siebensteine Preusslitz