Barbarossa stone
The Barbarossastein is a memorial dedicated to the Staufer Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa (1152–1190) in the Lauratal near Weingarten in the Ravensburg district . It is located in the district of the city of Ravensburg near the border with the city of Weingarten and the municipality of Schlier.
According to an old folk legend, Friedrich Barbarossa was born on the Haslachburg above the Lauratal . In 1907 this legend was picked up by the Weingarten local group of the Swabian Alb Association . One began to collect donations for a Barbarossa monument. When there was enough money together in 1909, a huge boulder with ten horses was carted from Vogt into the Lauratal valley to the place where Haslachburg used to be. The boulder was placed on a concrete base and provided with a relief portrait of Barbarossa. He also received a plaque on which this poem can be read:
- Hikers stop!
- This stone heralds it
- from old folk legend,
- faithful to this day
- especially missing a lie:
- Here was Barbarossa's cradle,
- also Emperor Charlemagne
- stayed here with his hawser,
- with the round of lively elves
- on the Haslachburg of the Welfs.
The Barbarossastein was inaugurated on June 19, 1910.
literature
- Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association 1909, pp. 255-56: H. Egle, Weingarten and the Lauratal
- Sheets of the Swabian Alb Association, volume 116, issue No. 2 in March / April 2010, article 100 years of Barbarossastein in the Haslachwald (PDF; 4.2 MB)
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 28.7 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 18.9" E