Bauernstein Reichardtswerbe
The farmer's stone from Reichardtswirtschaft was a court stone in the town of Weißenfels in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . Today's small monument with this name is apparently not under monument protection , because it is neither in the monument register nor in the soil monument register .
Due to their simple appearance, peasant stones have been destroyed more often without thought. Such a case also exists in Reichardtswerbe . Here the peasant stone was allegedly used for road construction in the 1970s. Similar to the Erdeborn peasant stone, a stone was put up again decades later. Today it bears the inscription Bauernstein and thus serves as a memorial for the former legal center of the village. Today's Bauernstein is located in the northeast of the village on a triangular square called Posendorfer Spitze , which is formed by Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse in the south and west and von-Seydlitz-Strasse in the north.
In 1929 Siebert described the interim fate of the stone. He wrote: The farmer's stone from Reichardtswirtschaft (...) stood under a chestnut on the parish square in the middle of the village. Now houses have been built on the square. The stone was carelessly pushed aside. He mourns at a slip through, half sunk in the ground. This stone was apparently still registered in 1984. At that time it was between the church and the pond, partly hidden in the ground. In 2003 the same people could no longer find the stone there.
The community gathered at such peasant stones to discuss village matters - such as hiring a midwife or a shepherd - as well as to clarify minor legal disputes. The village chief (often a farmer or mayor ) stood on the farmer's stone during the meeting and the community gathered around him. The majority of pawn stones therefore have a flat surface. In this way, instructions were often read out so that everyone could understand them. This legal practice only went out of use in the 19th century.
literature
- Wernfried Fieber, Heiner Lück and Reinhard Schmitt : Farm stones in Saxony-Anhalt. "... suspect the stone, so stand on the field ...". An inventory (= archeology in Saxony-Anhalt; special volume 11), Halle (Saale) 2009.
- M. Siebert: Stone witnesses from the past of Reichardtswirtschaft and Posendorf , in: Home calendar for the city and district of Weißenfels 1929, pp. 81–82.
Web links
- Bauernstein Reichardtswerbe , Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on October 7, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neither in the list of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for a written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6 / 3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670) still in the updates from 2017 (KA 7/628; 231 KB) and 2019 (KA 7/2235; 54 KB).
- ↑ a b Fieber / Lück / Schmitt, p. 59, No. 102.
- ↑ Siebert, p. 81.
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '0.4 " N , 11 ° 57' 34.9" E