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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hallerstein Alternative Name: TrompetersteinCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 10.969 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Bavaria Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Kirchenlamitz Nearest Village: Hallerstein
Latitude: 50.170644N Longitude: 11.921558E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Bavaria. Square-shaped piece of granite about 80 cm in height irregularly cut at the apex. A large carving of a Latin cross with the arms leading almost to the respective ends of the block.
This stone has always been popularly known as the“ trumpeter" stone. This peculiar name is derived as follows. Two soldier trumpeters were said to be killed there in 1625 during the Thirty Years' War. One of them allegedly fought in the Battle of White Mountain near the Prague in 1620. So the legend says.
Hallerstein is also mentioned in the official record from 1681. Local "judge and forester Johann Lipharth, who worked as a dowser on behalf of the government, found a silver vein under the trumpeter stone heading eastwards". An interesting fact.
This ancient monument can be found by the old country road in the in the Hallersteiner Wood, about 100 m west of the road junction. Its location is about 2.2 km southeast of Förmitz, almost exactly on the border of the (old) districts of Münchberg and Wunsiedel. By the way the road itself is said to be very old. It is possible that it was an important "highway" even already in Frankish Carolingian Empire.
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