Spellenstein
 
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Location of the Spellenstein in Saarland . |
The Spellenstein (historically: Spillenstein and Krimhildespill , also called Grimolde Pfeil in the 16th to 18th centuries ) is a menhir in Rentrisch , a district of the middle town of St. Ingbert in Saarland .
It comes from the late Neolithic . It is generally assumed that the Spellenstein was built around 1800 BC. Was established. With a weight of 15 to 20 tons, its height above the ground is 5.05 m, it reaches about 1.5 m into the ground. The foot of the menhir was excavated in 1894. Under the Spellenstein lies a bottle that contains a document from the city of St. Ingbert, which was signed by the employees who excavated the Spellenstein in 1935.
It can still be seen relatively clearly that the Spellenstein originally represented a square stone spindle tapering towards the top . It was made from the hardest sandstone , presumably with the help of hard quartz tools . The material presumably comes from the Dudweiler Pfaffenkopf. Exactly what purpose the Spellenstein served is in the dark. However, a cultic connection with the boot rock , which is 1,300 m away as the crow flies, is to be assumed, since its “boot tip” points in the direction of the Spellenstein.
In the Middle Ages and the early modern period it was the boundary stone of the right of escort between the Counts of Saarbrücken and Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The geographer Tilemann Stella drew him accordingly in his land survey in 1564 with a particularly high landmark on the racing field as Pirmansstein . The built-up area reached the menhir as early as 1900, so that it is now in a front garden.
The Gollenstein near Blieskastel is similar to the Spellenstein .
literature
- Hans Cappel: Gollenstein and Spillenstein: In: Saarpfalz, sheets for history and folklore. 1989/4, ISSN 0930-1011 , pp. 4-10.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 367.
- Thomas Strauch: Stone witnesses of a 4,000 year old cultural history - a look at important natural and cultural monuments of the Saarland . In: Yearbook for the Bergmannskalender 2006, ZDB -ID 1460592-2 , pp. 147–153.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Krimhildespill , chapter of the text Legends and Stories about the old Ensheimer Bann by Paul Glass, with further sources.
- ↑ Der Spellenstein , information page on the website of the St. Ingbert-Rentrisch district, accessed on May 16, 2016.
- ^ Tilemann Stella : Land recording of the offices of Zweibrücken and Kirkel of the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken 1564 . Land survey office Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz 1989, map 9.
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 5 ′ 5 ″ E