A single stone near the Querkelsteine, presumably a ritual site.
Possibly part of pagan or early Christian ceremonies, it served as a central point for offerings to deities or for performing other cultic acts. It is a rock with a natural depression or recess.

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The so-called sacrificial stones, specially shaped or worked stones, were often associated with a bloody sacrificial cult of the Germanic tribes, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for which there is no evidence. The "blood grooves" on most of the stones are probably of natural origin.

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