Force places and cult places in THURINGIA in GERMANY

Buttelstedt:
“Wetzstone”:
A Menhir, which moved meanwhile to the edge after the freeway Weimar.
The legend tells that 2 giants struck hay on 2 mountains. One had forgotten and called the Wetzstein to the other one too, he might have borrowed its Wetzstein to him around the scythe to sharpen. The giant aimed with the throw however remained too briefly and thus the Wetzstone in the field being in the middle.
Description of way: Dresden over Bautzen to Löbau (E40) - > far after the northeast crest of the Löbauer of mountain follow - on the summit of the sheep mountain


Seat:
Bear cellar:
The bear cellar - 25 m a long stonecave - was probably a cult place, which is dated on 10000 v.Chr. Numerous articles were here in the rear part of the cave deposited: Woman figure made of ivory was found at a small fire deeply in the cave, to feet of the Idols was appropriate for charcoal bits, pieces of broken glass, animal bones as well as flint measurers and -, staffs from ivory and antlers sharpened. The animal remainders before the cult cave become as leftovers of victim meals thatHunter and collecting tank interpreted.
Description of way: Weimar to Rudolstadt (85 after 5) - > further to king lake - > seat - > “on the Gebörne” the bear cellar cave (dwarf hole) at a steep slope, few meters is below the high surface. (The entrance to the cave is locked - key lies in seat)


Oelknitz:
Victim place:
It concerns a place here, where before 10000 to 12000 years a “God of the animals” was admired. Were brought here in the open land settlement on a small terrace over the Saale Aue victim: representative womanidols from ivory, as Phallus marked stones, rubble with scratching (as symbol for horse, fish and hermaphrodite nature).
The victim place with Stele and numerous pits - about which numerous are assumed as victim pits - lay here in the midst of the settlement.
The ice-age wild horse hunters admired here in a cult district the “nut/mother of the animals”.
Description of way: E40 exit Jena - > further to Rothenstein - > far the 88 direction Rudolstadt - > Schöps - > hunter village - > Oelknitz - > 2 x right after local end - > at the foot of the wooded slope along up to the end of the passable way - > left lies the Sandberg - > from there a footpath leads across the small brook up to the terrace (with the old red excavator hut)


Oberdorla:
Germanic cult place:
That Weimar professor Behm Blancke has in the moorland of Oberdorla over 90 (!) Victim places excavated. Its most important find is probably a Germanic Pantheon: A find complex, which holds the symbols and sanctuaries of many Germanic divinities. 60 different wooden Idole were saved by him - under it 6 m a high wooden column - a Irminsul.
The cult place became in 6. Jhdt. v.Chr establishes. The Idol of a goddess with engraved neck tire is received from this time. In the spring food victims - gifts to the fertility goddess - were brought on a fire altar. In the center of a round sanctify around before a stone goats were sacrificed. As ”gooddess indication” the formation of a lake in holy moorlands around the birth the Christi (by an earth case) was probably interpreted. This lake became thus for the next centuries the religious center Germanic gau. On the bank of the lake commodity numerous Heiligtümer - there are reconstructions for it due to the well received felling trees hurry.
Likewise the cult actions are described by the experts: Priests (inside) sacrificed meals, humans and animals at a victim place (north side sanctify around) the war God.
In further consequence in the next centuries the God cults were coined/shaped here by celtic and Roman influences: In an isolated Heiligtum a goddess was admired, that is compared with the Roman Diana. In the 3. Jhdt. its deer, Eber and game birds were sacrificed. Further a coffin with a female skeleton was found here: here it is to concern a Priesterin of the goddess.
In 4. Jhdt. became this “Diana” - holy destroys and by 2 holy boats in 5. Jhdt. replaced. A connection with the cult ships, which point direction sunrise, is assumed (at present, into which in Thuringia drew the fishing rod Saxonia).
In 10. and 11. Jhdt. - despite Christianisierung - by the native victims were still brought here. Since the church in Oberdorla a Archidiakonat established, from a particularly important cult place one proceeds here.
Description of way: Iron oh direction the north - > before Mühlhausen right after Niederdorla - > on the left side (reed belt) lies the abgetorfte moorland with the lake.