Wormsleben stone circle
The stone circle of Wormsleben was a prehistoric stone circle near Wormsleben , a district of the municipality of Seegebiet Mansfelder Land in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz , Saxony-Anhalt . It was probably destroyed in the first half of the 19th century.
location
The stone circle was between Wormsleben and Neehausen .
description
According to Christian Keferstein , the stone circle was no longer preserved in the 1840s. It consisted of vertical sandstone pillars . No information is available about the dimensions of the circle and the individual stones.
Finds from the area around the stone circle come from the Bandkeramische Kultur , the Walternienburg culture , the Full Bronze Age , the Latène Age , the Migration Period , the Slavic Early Middle Ages and the Middle Ages .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 65.
- Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche: The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1909, p. 44 ( online ).
- Christian Keferstein : Views on Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany. Volume I, Halle 1846, p. 29 ( online ).
- 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, p. 69.