Devil's Stone (Piltitz)
| Devil stone Gützer Teufelsstein | |||
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 The Piltitzer Teufelsstein |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '59.2 " N , 12 ° 8' 36.4" E | ||
| place | Landsberg , OT Gütz , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The Piltitzer Teufelsstein (also Gützer Teufelsstein ) is a menhir in the former village of Piltitz , which is now part of Gütz , a district of Landsberg (Saalekreis) in Saxony-Anhalt .
Location and description
The Teufelsstein is located on the western outskirts of Landsberg, right on the edge of Otto-Quandt-Straße in a hedge. In 1845 a large stone grave is said to have been removed very close to it. The stone itself was almost destroyed in 1900. In 1922 it was erected again. An inscription column erected next to him at that time was removed again in the 1950s.
The menhir consists of coarse crystalline porphyry . It has a height of 107 cm, a width of 110 cm and a depth of 70 cm. Its mass is 2.5 tons. It is round in shape and has an outgrowth on the back. Due to recent road construction work, the stone is now much deeper in the earth than in its original state.
The devil's stone in regional legends
The stone in Piltitz is one of several stones around the Petersberg - including the Franzosenstein von Seeben and the Teufelsstein von Sennewitz - around which a common legend revolves. Accordingly, the devil threw the stones from the mountain at various churches, but missed them. In Landsberg, he is said to have targeted the double chapel of Landsberg Castle and called out to a young Augustinian monk: “Before you have spoken three Our Fathers , I'll smash the little church with this stone!” But the monk managed to get the three Our Fathers in time to say and the stone fell to the ground shortly before Landsberg.
Another legend tells of a black dog . He has fiery eyes and watches over the devil's stone on dark nights. He should silently accompany people passing by to their house.
literature
- Bernhard Brühl: The Piltitzer Teufelsstein. In: Calendar for local history and local history of Halle, Saalkreis and the surrounding area. 1925, pp. 28-32.
- Bernhard Brühl: Two legends from the Piltitzer Teufelsstein. In: Home calendar for the Mulde districts of Bitterfeld and Delitsch. Volume 7, 1931, p. 43.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 431, 454.
- 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. 182.
- A. Messerschmidt, M. Messerschmidt: Local history (s). Landsberg 2002.
- 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.
- Siegmar Schultze : The history of the Saalkreis from the earliest times. Hall 1912.
- Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra: Nice Ännchen von Gottau. Hall 1914.
- Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra: Walks through the Saalkreis. Volume 3. Hall 1920.
- 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. 84–86.
- Bodo Wemhöner , Ralf Schwarz : Routes of archeology. Hall and the hall circle. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-910010-97-X , pp. 25-27.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Piltitzer Teufelsstein
- landsberg-lesen.de: The Piltitzer Teufelsstein