Exclusive processing of three massive pieces of oak wood.

 

The Irminsul (Irmin = powerful, divinely, tall and sul = column) or Statue of Armenius Old Saxon was a main sanctuary and a large oak or wood column have been.

 

Its exact location is unknown, but probably it was near the Eresburg Obermarsberg at how the wording suggested in the Annales regni Francorum ("Frankish annals") by the year 772nd Other possible locations include the applicable Externsteine ​​and Velmerstot. The Irminsul was destroyed by the Franks at the behest of Charlemagne in the year 772 during the Saxon wars.

 

The Irminsul should clearly represent the conjunction of heaven with the earth. The monk Rudolf of Fulda, which we owe the only detailed message to Irminsul, writes in the Translatio s. Alexandri (Section 3): "Truncum quoque parva non ligni magnitudinis in altum erectum sub divo colebant, patria eum lingua Irminsul distinctive appeal, quod Latine dicitur universalis columna quasi sustine omnia. "- "Even a piece of wood (or tree) of no small size, which had been erected in the air, they worshiped (viz. the Saxons) in the open air, which they in their native language" Irminsul "called, which in Latin," All pillar "means as it carries a sense the universe."

 

A (radical) version of a Irminsäule, apparently of Roman origin, is now in the Hildesheim Cathedral. A reference to "the" Irminsul is unclear. Nearby are the towns by the way Irminseul / Irmenseul, Segesta, the dragon and the mountain Wormstal, which may even point to the Nibelungenlied.