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<< Other Photo Pages >> Teufelsteine Hünxe - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia

Submitted by Harald_Platta on Sunday, 06 March 2016  Page Views: 1124

Natural PlacesSite Name: Teufelsteine Hünxe Alternative Name: Teufelssteine Hünxe
Country: Germany Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Hünxe
Latitude: 51.608714N  Longitude: 6.825575E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Teufelsteine Hünxe
Teufelsteine Hünxe submitted by Harald_Platta : The Teufelsteine ("Devil`s Stones") are four freshwater quartzite rocks in Hünxe (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). They are situated in the Hünxer Wald forest. Photo by Jörg Kazur from the news article "Schreiner, R.: Wo der Teufel mit Steinen warf. In: NGZ online (2. August 2010)". (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Teufelsteine are four freshwater quartzite rocks in Hünxe (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). They are situated in the Hünxer Wald forest.

The measurements of the stones differ between a hight of 0.33 m – 0.76 m and a size of 1.0 m x 1.5 m – 3.5 m x 4.1 m.

Local legends associate the stones with the devil ("Devil`s Stones"). According to the legend, the devil threw the rocks in order to destroy the Evangelische Dorfkirche Hünxe church. One of the stones can still be seen bricked in the church wall (coordinates 51.642828, 6.766168).

The remains of the Kürbaum tree can be found in close proximity to the stones in the forest. The Kürbaum is thought to have been a holy tree that possibly marked an early thing site. The Kürbaum consisted of an oak that had merged with a beech tree. This unusually old tree died in 1937.
The ensemble of Teufelsteine and Kürbaum was suggested to have been a sanctuary for the Germanic god Wodan.

Two information boards are located near the Teufelsteine and the Kürbaum.

Literature:
[01] Hasenj, A.: Wo Gott und Teufel mit Blitzen und Steinen warfen. In: NRZ (11.01.2014).
[02] Sondermann, D.: Der Kürbaum im Hünxer Wald. In: Lippesagen (2013).
[03] Schreiner, R.: Wo der Teufel mit Steinen warf. In: NGZ online (2. August 2010).
[04] Die Teufelssteine im Hünxer Wald. In: Der Kumpel, Ausgabe vom 23.05.1955 (1955).

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Re: Teufelsteine Hünxe by Harald_Platta on Saturday, 21 October 2017
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News article with a picture of the putative remains of the Kürbaum:
https://www.nrz.de/staedte/dinslaken-huenxe-voerde/wo-gott-und-teufel-mit-blitzen-und-steinen-warfen-id8859060.html
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    Re: Teufelsteine Hünxe by Andy B on Saturday, 21 October 2017
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    Thanks Harald - approximate (probably terrible) Google translation:

    Where God and the devil threw with flashes and stones - Anja Hasenj

    Hünxe. An old tree stump, fenced together with a young beech tree - a strange ensemble stands in the Hünxer forest. Where today walkers run their dogs was once a legendary, sacred place. At the "fir tree," an oak that had grown together with a beech, the Teutons were to have chosen their leaders and judged. God shall have destroyed the tree. Around the corner lie four rocks of Devil's Hand. The story "Der Kürbaum im Hünxer Wald" can be read in Dirk Sondermann's book "Lippesagen".

    To the dear God they were probably too pagan, the ancestors of the Huns, and the devil too Christian. They showed the weather god Donar in the interwoven tree. A monk then asked God, as a proof of his existence, to smash the tree with a lightning bolt.

    From the stump again a beech had sprung. So the legend. In any case, says Heinrich Rühl, chairman of the Heimatverein, "this was a cultural site". An infotainment is also reported by the Germans. And of a young blood beech, which was planted next to the stump in 1937.

    Another panel, a few hundred meters further, identifies four rocks as 10 million-year-old tertiary quarzites. But much more exciting is the legend of the devil's stones. The devil, according to Rühl, lived with his grandmother in the Testerbergs, and from then on he watched with increasing discontent the Christianization. He hurled rocks at the churches. In Hünxe and Drevenack he has hit - the rocks, so Rühl, are embedded in the wall. But he did not come to Kirchhellen - the "devil's stones" landed in the Hünxer Forest.
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