Pointed stone (Armsheim)
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 48 '23.9 " N , 8 ° 3' 41.9" E | ||
| place | near Armsheim , Alzey-Worms district , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The pointed stone is a menhir near Armsheim in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The original location of the stone is not known. Perhaps it once served as the crowning point for a burial mound that has now been destroyed . Probably from the Middle Ages, he was together with the menhir , the Dicken Stein , the now destroyed Haugstein and another menhir as a landmark between Armsheim and Flonheim used. During a land consolidation, the thick stone and the pointed stone were removed in 1979 and re-erected in the following year 1200 m west of Armsheim. There, the pointed stone was knocked over by an agricultural vehicle and broke in two. In 2001 the two stones were moved again. The two fragments of the pointed stone were placed on a small green area directly in the village on Bahnhofstrasse. The thick stone is right next to it. The menhir, which was slightly offset in 1975, was set up 500 m southwest of it. The Lange Stein von Flonheim is 1.8 km south .
The menhir is made of limestone , the place of origin of which is Geiersberg, 2 km away. It has a height of 200 cm, a width of 80 cm and a depth of 30 cm. It is plate-shaped, tapers upwards and ends in a rounded tip. About 50 to 60 cm below the tip there is a deep, naturally created bowl. At its old location before 1979 it protruded 110 cm from the ground, after the move it was only 100 cm.
literature
- Georg Durst: The monoliths of the province of Rheinhessen. In: Mainz magazine. Volume 33, 1928, pp. 23-24.
- Theodor Eichberger: From Aribosheim to Armsheim to Armsem. Mosaic of a Rheinhessen village. Armsheim 1992.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 38.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 285, 322–323.
- 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 1955, No. 9, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 162.
- Detert Zylmann: The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-936326-07-9 , p. 103.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 322-323.