Meßstetten Castle

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Meßstetten Castle
Creation time : probably 13th century
Castle type : not explored
Conservation status: Burgstall, Halsgraben
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Meßstetten

The castles in Meßstetten are three abandoned castles in the main town of Meßstetten in the Zollernalb district ( Baden-Württemberg ). The Meßstettener castles belong to a group of castles belonging to the Tierberg rulership, which, in addition to the Meßstetten castles, consists of the Hossingen castle and the Wildentierberg , Neuentierberg and Altentierberg castles .

Coat of arms of the Lords of Tierberg
Hohenberg coat of arms in the Zurich coat of arms roll (approx. 1340)

Names of the castles and families

The local history researcher and pedagogue Hermann Krauss assumed that all of the Meßstetter castles / residential towers were called Tierberg and that they were distinguished from other castles by adding a name. So, for example, the castle zum Neuen Tierberg on Bschorner Weg, Stein or See could have been named. In 1380 a Berthold B (e) schornen von Schwenningen is mentioned in documents of the Beuron monastery. In 1988, Hermann Krauß orientated himself on the then state of research on Wildenstein Castle in the Danube Valley with several smaller castles in the vicinity, the former Altwildenstein , Unterwildenstein , Wildensteiner Burg Hexenturm and Wildensteiner Hahnenkamm Castle .

Burgstall Schlössle, which is no longer accessible today because of the dangers posed by duds, is shown in old maps behind the Kählesbühl transmission tower above a flat valley between Zitterboch and Feldboch. The foundation walls of the farm yard are in the armored shooting range on the district of Meßstetten on the historic Bschorner Weg. In 1909, the city of Meßstetten had to sell almost 40 percent of its district area for the Heuberg military training area to the Reich Treasury. Smaller castles or apartment towers that could not be precisely located were probably located near the earlier " Hülbe " in the town center and near the castle school. The castle was probably built in the 13th century by the Lords of Meßstetten (mentioned since 1251). It was in the territory of the Shearra County . In 1369 the provost and convent of Beuron sold their fellow conventual, the priest Berthold von Meßstetten, a treasure trove “from the convent's goods”. Berthold managed the monastery property in Breisgau for a long time and made the monastery a rich foundation. From 1389 to 1404 he was provost. Apparently he died in Freiburg, because the conventuals claim to have taken the year of his death from a letter from Freiburg dated 1405. From the family of the lords of the castle, a Berthold von Meßstetten worked in 1337 as provost of St. Max near Geweiler in Alsace. 1374 Hans von Meßstetten as mayor of Ebingen.

In 1327 Kunz (father: Konrad von der Altentierberg) acquires a castle now called Neuentierberg with all accessories at the court from the von Bubenhofen family , but without the Lautlingen church set, without Meßstetten (Stetten) and a number of serfs. In 1345 and 1347 Hossingen, Tieringen and Meßstetten were sold to Heinrich von Tierberg. Local researcher Krauss suspected that knight Heinrich von Tierberg called Haiterbach had sold his property in Haiterbach and acquired his new rule, the center of which was Meßstetten. Already in Julius Kindler von Knobloch's Upper Baden gender book , published at the end of the 19th century , the place Haiterbach was assigned the nickname of this sideline of the Lords of Tierberg.

The St. Lamprecht Church in Meßstetten is supported by Heinrich and Burkhard von Tierberg. In 1360 the lord of the castle donated a year for himself, his ancestors and descendants in the church in Meßstetten (St. Lamprecht, largely renovated after the earthquake damage in 1911), where his mother, his wife and three sisters are buried. In 2016, graves were found and documented in the church interior of the Lamprechtskiche during construction work.

The Margrethausen monastery was founded in 1338 by the local lord Konrad von Tierberg as a Franciscan monastery. The hermitage acquired from the Haiterbach line of the Lords of Tierberg at Meßstetten Castle successively a number of Meßstetter farms. The monastery owned five Meßstetter feudal farms, 168 Jauchert arable land and 104 Mannswahd meadows.

Evangelical Lamprechtskirche Meßstetten

In 1370 the rule of Meßstetten came to the Wildentierberger line . The brothers Hans Rudolf and Hans Konrad von Tierberg von der Wildentierberg certify an agreement on the basis of the spiritual fiefs at Ebingen, Lautlingen, Margrethausen and Meßstetten (Stetten). In 1418 Konrad von Hölstein sold Tieringen, Meßstetten and Hossingen to Württemberg, but kept his house in Tieringen. The Lords of Messstetten were ministerials to the Counts of Hohenberg .

In the Ebingen camp book from 1561 an old customs is mentioned. The residents of the castle are exempt from customs duties as citizens of Meßstetten. The residents of Schwenningen, Stetten am kalten Markt, Hartheim, Glashütte and Heinstetten, located behind Castle Meßstetten, bought the duty exemption for Ebinger Markt. Each head of the household supplied a quarter of grain, the so-called tariff grain

Mining

The floor ore found on the Alb was smelted in the vicinity of Meßstetten Castle. The aristocratic families were deeply involved in the disputes of that time and endeavored to maintain their own power base in the battles between king and counter-king, emperor and pope. If you look at the history of the Staufer period, the investiture dispute, which was largely fought in Swabia, and the changing sides of the Swabian aristocratic families - sometimes in favor of the emperor, sometimes in favor of the pope - one would dare to venture the following hypothesis: To keep up with this dispute To be able to, the local noble families had to mobilize all reserves. This also helped the ore deposits in the foothills of the Alb to gain new importance. The end of medieval iron production coincides with the rise of the House of Württemberg in the second half of the 13th century. The ores were later smelted in Wehingen, Thiergarten and Ludwigsthal. Investigations of the slag from historical iron smelting in the Swabian Alb area show a new type of small smelting furnace that has been able to work more effectively since the 13th century.

The school center Burgschule / Skistraße is named after one of the castles. A narrow lane near the former Hülbe is also called the castle. The Burgstall Schlössle is located in the military training area behind the Schlossberg.

Occupation by conscript citizens of Meßstetter

Saltpetre mining around 1580

According to the muster list, obtained from 1521, the Meßstetter militiamen is responsible for securing the castle on the Schlossberg, which is also the barrier on the Bschorn path. The names of the soldiers have been passed down: Hans Bartlin, Ludwig Bechthold, Caspar Bechthold, Hans Bippeler, Auberlin Blocker, Balle Bucher, Andreas (also Enderlin) Decker, Caspar Decker, Batt Decker, Lentzin Decker. An Agnesa Decker of this family was executed by cremation in Rottweil in 1587. On April 15, 2015, the city council of Rottweil passed a resolution on the socio-ethical and moral rehabilitation of the victims of the witch trials. Andreas Dentzel, Gallin von (Gersten) Eck (hern), Melchior Freyder Bastian (also Balthasar) Freyder (minor form: Fraider), Thomann Fritz, Stefan Jörg (sen), Stefan Jörg (junior), Lorentz Kiesinger, Knall Hans, Blein Heinzelmann , Jakob Hirt, Lenhart Hirt, Hans Kästle, Stefan Kästle, Auberlin Kienle, Adam Kienle (sen), Adam Kienle (jun), Auberlin Klockner, der Landöß, Stefan Löffler (retired after the trial) der Mutschlenhans, Gorius Müller, Ulrich Narr ( Minor form: Barr), Ballus Pfeifer, Jakob Pfeifer, Gallin Ruß, Baltus Taler, Martin Vischer (today: Fischer), Oswald Villing, Hans Villing, Auberlin Wolfer, Bernhart Weiß, Jakob Weber, the Weber, Bartlin Weidentaler, Peter Weidentaler, the Wurtzer. After his brother Stefan shot a forester, Hans Löffler was banned from carrying the weir. In 1709 the free stalking in Meßstetten is abolished and reintroduced as a ducal mercy hunt from 1713 to 1806. In the last surviving sample list from 1603, Meßstetten shows the hamlet of Hossingen as a carpenter, four musket shooters, 49 simple shooters, 19 double oysters (armor), 45 simple servants and a carter with two raism monks (draft animals). In Meßstetten the soldiers practice on Sundays at the shooting ranges. The saltpetre for gunpowder was made by saltpetre boilers like Johannes Ammann, who came from Tailfingen, and Johannes Schempp (Salzsieder's son, short for the local dialect Salvaiter ) in Meßstetten. In 1606 Hans Dietrich von Westerstetten invited to a shooting competition in Lautlingen . In 1627 Mrs. von Westerstetten donated a pair of trousers to the best marksman. Also on Castle Werenwag held shooting competition. Rifle shooting in Trochtelfingen 1564: The count donated 10 guilders. Nine shots in three rounds at three floating targets, about ten cubits apart on all sides from the purpose and the nail (center point). 250 paces apart.

The servants' apartments

The farmhands lived in the local area in modest Seldner houses lined up like a town with Ettertor on small allotted wasteland plots. In Oberdigisheim it is called the poor quarter in Frommern Granitz . Seldner houses that were later expanded could be preserved on the Eichhalde in Talstrasse and in Oberdigisheim. Thus, the town of Wangen, mentioned in the legend, could go back to the actual seldner houses of seasonal workers, small craftsmen and servants from the farms of the castles. In the list of hearths from 1477, 18 houses with men and six servants are named in Nüwenghausen.

Soldier Kaspar Landöß (Landess) von Meßstetten (Stetten) and Barbara (Ba (e) rbelin) Stahel von Lautlingen (Lutlingen) certify that they have married with the consent of their Junker Melchior von Tierberg, to whom the exhibitor is bonded and belongs. The exhibitors promise that Barbara Stahel and the children she had born will follow every written and verbal request from her Junker Melchior von Tierberg to return to his rule, just as serfs owe their owners with carnival hens and other things.

There were also obligations associated with living in Meßstetten. For example, after the Schalksburg was damaged in 1464 from Meßstetten, Oberdigisheim, Hossingen and Tieringen, forced labor had to be performed.

The district of the castle on the Schlossberg

The fenced-in tents of the three-field economy were Saibenried , Lange Gerberten and Reisbühl . The Ösche Paffental , Heimberg and Dicker See were pasture land with the undeveloped Zelge. It was then united with the Meßstetter district after 1400.

Strategic importance of Meßstetten Castle

A road once leads from Ebingen via Meßstetten Castle and at Riedern, which was sold in the 15th century, across the Danube to Lengenfeld . The Werbenfurth, so named in the Werenwager Urbar of 1468 , apparently served as the Danube crossing. Today the Siebenkreuzlesweg and the Lengenfelder Steige in the Danube Valley are signposted as hiking trails. Starting point 1 for hikes: Hausen im Tal train station, parking lot by car ( 48 ° 4 ′ 23.51 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 35.85 ″  E ). The location of Riedern an der Steige in the Danube Valley certainly required the organization of road construction measures and the organization of post- tensioning services . Furt, Steigen and Burgen are to be understood as a unit, that is, it is an early, militarily secured Danube crossing. Starting point 2 for hikes: Albstadt-Ebingen train station, with the car parking lot on the way to the sand pit ( 48 ° 12 ′ 5.92 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 20.54 ″  E ), or below in the second hairpin bend ( 48 ° 12 ′ 13.9 "  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 12.52"  O ). The ruts of the carts carved into the rock and the seven crosses carved into the rock after an accident can be hiked. In its profile, the approximately four-meter-wide path at Werenwag Castle rises considerably from the flat terrain for no apparent reason and appears to be very elevated in the middle.

Theaters of war near the castle

Bauernjörg On February 29, 1525 with an army in the Bäratal in Meßstetten, woodcut by H.Burgmair the Elder. Ä.

In 1525 social and political dissatisfaction broke out in Meßstetten during the peasant uprising. Oberdigisheim and Tieringen became centers of the uprising. Right at the beginning of the year, the rebels plunder the Schalksburg . The badge of the farmers around Balingen was a black and red flag with a white cross.

According to oral tradition , the castle in Hossingen was damaged during the Peasants' War . On February 15, 1632 at midnight there was fighting and looting by imperial horsemen under the Obervogt zu Gutenstein . Several citizens of Meßstetter were fatally wounded. According to oral tradition, even the bells were removed from the church tower and transported to Schwenningen. 104 men from the Gutenstein rule were used as musketeers , 68 men with double mercenaries . The names of the attackers have been passed down: Captain Andreas Riester, Lieutenant Urban Mors and Feldwebel (Veldwaibel) Wilhelm Barfüeßer. Also on May 20, 1634 and April 30, 1635 there were deaths in Meßstetten. In 1633 there was fighting in Mühlheim . Truchsess Wilhelm Heinrich reports how Swedish and Württemberg troops plundered, robbed and burned Nusplingen on October 16, 1633. Everything except two little houses in the city and the one church, including three other housing appliances in the suburbs, laid in the ashes to make a pathetic sight. After the lost battle of Nördlingen, the duke flees to Mömpelgard . In 1635, Meßstetten is given to Count Heinrich von Schlick as a gift. Messstetten has a new local lord for 13 years.

Water supply

Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of the section water supply : OSM

The castle complex was supplied with water by means of barrels. Old walls ( 48 ° 10 ′ 30 ″ N, 8 ° 58 ′ 26 ″ E ) allowed cattle to be driven from the pastures through the arable land to the Bannhülbe and, in the event of prolonged drought, to the springs in the Lautlinger Valley. In the area around the castle there is a water-bearing shaft cave and several hulls under a rock . A small water point ( 48 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ N, 8 ° 59 ′ 42 ″ E ) behind the Zollernalb barracks is freely accessible . In old maps, a lake is drawn in the military training area. Larger lakes in the Swabian Alb are rare. A temporary lake in Burladingen is known. Excavations in the Seetal cut corresponding sediments . Progressive karstification and earthquakes caused ponors to form in the lake bed . Today only field names are reminiscent of the former lake. The rainwater was collected in a cistern . In the castle kitchen, sulfur-containing spring water was often used to prepare pulses (peas, beans, lentils). Sources in Oberdigisheim (hamlet Geyerbad ( 48 ° 10 ′ 46 ″ N, 8 ° 52 ′ 38 ″ E)), Nusplingen (Wildbad, Mayenbad) and a source in Egesheim became today's Tuttlinger (fluorine 0.61; calcium 222; Magnesium 48.7: sulphate 577: hydrogen carbonate 211), Balinger and Haigerlocher mineral waters, probably largely identical waters are kept in the castle kitchen.

Scientific investigations

From 1916, local pastors and educators together with castle researcher Konrad Albert Koch sighted the Tierberg castles. In Hossingen, the walls, up to two meters high, were recorded with the usual deviations at the time. His not always uncontroversial artistic reconstruction drawings - for which he wrote “This is what it probably could have looked like” - have been used with pleasure ever since. To preserve the ruins, the remains of the wall were completely covered with earth. Konrad Albert Koch, for example, managed to create complete artistic reconstruction drawings of the castles in Hossingen and Altentierberg .

From 2008, measurements with significantly higher accuracy were carried out and digitized by a team led by the Meßstetter castle researcher Franz Josef Häring. 3D - CAD - simulations were far from the residential tower at the Castle school, the residential tower Tieringen, from Wasserburg Oberdigisheim presented Hossingen and from the castle. During a shooting break in 2013, a group, under supervision, sighted areas near Kählesbühl that were not contaminated by ammunition. The Heimat und Geschichtsverein Meßstetten was able to determine the old pasture boundaries of the Zelgen. The two hills with the presumed castle stables were not sighted.

Say

"City of Wangen"

One knows fabulous memories from places gone. A town of Wangen has disappeared between Hossingen and Meßstetten Castle. Pastor Alfred Ludwig Oetinger (from 1856 to 1868 pastor in Meßstetten and Hossingen) had extensive excavations carried out initially on his own account and later on account of the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities. The place Neu-Wangenhausen (Nüwenghausen) mentioned in 1477 could not be assigned to any other place in the Oberamt. The nuns of Margrethausen awarded lease land in Meßstetten. In 1495 and 1527 the tenants and neighbors of the fiefs are named: Bechthold, Brucker, Decker, Eppler, Hummel, Frick, Fritz, Gaenkinger, Gersteneck (h) er, Gomeringer, Göring, Herter, Jaeck, Kästle, Kienle, Kummer, Landöß , Luippold, Narr, Neefen, Raitlin, Röthlin, Roth, Schick, Schuirer, Vischer (today's spelling: Fischer), Weber. An assignment of exact places of residence is only possible to a limited extent via sample lists and church books. 1907 lists of names of long-established families from the church books of 1583 are published in the community letter Heimatklänge. In the article, some surnames were assigned places of origin. Berger family: 1661 from Rimbach (Brienz) Switzerland. Without a place of origin, the names Bleibler 1650, Schwarz 1680 and Weißmann 1650 are mentioned.

"Smuggler"

Until 1835, goods were smuggled for traders across the customs border guarded by country hunters. Bible smugglers supplied the believers underground with Bibles and evangelical scriptures. There was an Austrian customs post in the Hohenberger Forest on the Steige to Ebingen. Smuggler Blickle lived in a modest property in the Heuberg military training area, very close to the border. The count suspected him of robbery and smuggling. He is said to have been involved in the theft from his fish pond in Burladingen with Reize Ortlieb, who was executed in 1535. He was caught in armor and shot immediately because he had not surrendered.

In 1698 almost a ton of steel ingots was smuggled from Kolbingen to Ebingen via Meßstetten. The assigned ironworks in St. Christophstal near Freudenstadt could only insufficiently freshen the unwanted iron companions . This steel was softer than the polish ore steel. This iron is too brisk and is not good on the stony and rocky slopes. Ferdinand von Steinbeis , after whom a street in Meßstetten is named, succeeded in optimizing the blast furnace process in Ludwigsthal . Steel smuggling supplies the smithy with high quality steel. Skewers were also made for Ebingen in Meßstetten . The high art of making knife steel for weapons was mastered by most of the local people and was a well-guarded professional secret.

In 1750, the donkey miller bought 130 bushels of spelled from Messstetten and Hossingen from the Winterlinger Bannmühle and had them smuggled across the border into Switzerland. Since 1000 bushels were also bought and smuggled from Hechingen, there was a grain shortage. Coffee smuggler Haux was hit by a bullet from the Meßstetter Landjäger in the Pfaffental on July 21, 1831 and died. The starting point and warehouse of the night smuggling are said to have been caves. A man with the nickname Mui lived in the Hossing Muisloch cave. Without meaning to, his wife betrayed him, who was watched by the police when she brought him a basket of food in the evening. The smuggler's cave ( 48 ° 11 ′ 18.68 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 46.23 ″  E ) can be reached via a narrow path from Freithofstrasse via Kirchlesfels ( 48 ° 11 ′ 1.4 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 44, 8 ″  E ) and Schreifels ( 48 ° 11 ′ 18.64 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 46 ″  E ) can be hiked.

The Maute Spirit

A particularly cruel fate happened to the stocking weaver Johannes Rehfuß, known as Maute, a run-down, quarrelsome and stubborn person. He hanged himself on September 29th as a result of an exchange of words in the hospital in Ebingen. The hanged man was not even given a spot in the poor sinners cemetery. The corpse was handed over to Kleemeister Wiedmann. The same drove with him up the Schwenninger Berg to Meßstetten Castle. There he buried him at midnight. To spook around the Maute grave there is the following verse:

The Maute with his fat head,
He's gagging himself in the Spittelblock;
Ma hot leads him in Auchtenrain,
there he leads all alone.

In scenes by Pastor Oskar Beuttler about the founder of the Gnadauer Brazil Mission from Meßstetten , Mrs. Johanna Sophia Lörcher, the Maute Geist 2013 appears as a child fright.

The swineherd

The swineherd Johann Georg Eppler suffered a cruel fate. On June 26th, he was hit on the brain by the weather beam under an old beech tree below the Meßstetten Castle and suddenly killed. There is the following verse from Heinrich Fritz about the Eppler grave:

There has been a moss-weathered cross on the rough meadow slope for centuries,
apart from the village and the path . Drob 'the consecration draws circles with a soft flap of the wings around the cross in a quiet way the old saga twines: Here is a poor shepherd boy who was slain by the ray, who looked after the swine in the summer days . If the gentlemen's figures smoke up , the name of rank and dignity of posterity has been preserved - in the cross - their poor shepherd
















The cross is located on Airlensteig and is freely accessible. Starting point for walking is a grass lane when the Meßstetter Albverein again made-up protective wall for the arable land at the former Hülbe below the Kählesbühls ( 48 ° 10 '29.81 "  N , 8 ° 58' 26.15"  O ). Bicycles can be parked there.

"The Schimmelreiter's secret love affairs"

Such a Schimmelreiter should also be visible on the turnout wall on stormy autumn nights

An old legend tells of the Schimmelreiter who secretly meets with his lover at the Weichenwang. Sometimes on stormy autumn nights at the old Burtel Castle near Hossingen, of which there are still a few remains, a white horse rider riding across the Weichenwang (Heiligenwang) should become visible. Today there is a Bundeswehr radar system on the Weichenwang in Meßstetten. The site is no longer accessible. The lovers are a befitting relationship between a noble knight and the daughter of the Hossing lord of the castle. Their places of residence are said to be the castles of Hossingen and Tierberg. In 1898, Emil Schweizer incorporated the well-known version of this legend into his article from the Balingen Mountains.

Siebenkreuzlesfels

A family from Stetten drove up to the cold market early in the day. The horse and carriage and all its occupants fell into the depths. So father and mother with all five children met their sudden death. As a reminder, seven small crosses were dug into the rock face behind the precipice. The rock is still called Siebenkreuzlesfels ( 48 ° 12 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 12.52 ″  E ). The historic traffic route Siebenkreuzlesweg has been preserved in its original state in the area of ​​the second hairpin bend.

Since the legend was not handed down in writing before Gottlob Hummel, there are other interpretations: It would be conceivable that a station path on the path of the dead of the parish communities to the Ebingen cemetery destroyed by reformers, who were called “desert believers” in the area , would be destroyed . It is possible that the legend came about later.

A branch in the Siebenkreuzlesweg leads in a curve to a sand pit and a historic quarry. Excavations in 2016 produced a two-lane path that raises a number of questions: What was there to transport in addition to ores, stones and sand that was not possible on a single-lane path? Or did the second track with a pulley serve as a counterweight? Since a Roman settlement was discovered at the Ebinger Kreuz, a Roman origin of the channels can no longer be ruled out. The local group Ebingen of the Swabian Alb Association is currently conducting scientific research. Different track widths were measured.

Todays use

In recent years, attempts have been made to make the site a museum. In order to offer half-day tourists an attractive destination, 40 tours have been drawn up in the program booklet With the Alb-Guides on the move for 2016. In the Upper Danube Nature Park, there is a synchronized offer in rail transport on all routes on weekends . Albguides, trained nature and landscape guides from NABU , have included a three-hour Siebenkreuzlesweg tour from Ebingen in their offer.

Experts want to recognize the evidence of the former fortified buildings from the current orientation of today's buildings at the former Hülbe and the castle school. Research work was commissioned by the city of Meßstetten in Tübingen. This is associated with not inconsiderable costs, but makes an important contribution to awareness of one's own identity and to writing history.

The triple boundary stone

Not far from the castle is the legendary three-track brand, also known as the three-lane brand. The ban border had been imposed since ancient times, so that no neighbor could dare to cross it with his flock. The landmark was considered sacred by the ancients and strange customs were observed when it was set. A superstition has grown up around the stone : a splinter of the stone worn on the body should act as a protective symbol against dark forces, hail, storms, magic and disease. The meadow near the Dreibannmarke served as a storage place for traveling traders, carters and craftsmen until 1914. With finesse it was possible to find an advantage between Württemberg , Baden and Hohenzollern . After the opening of the shooting range, a meadow on the edge of the restricted area was assigned as a storage area until the Second World War .

There is a legend: whoever moves the stone must go spiritually to the place of his iniquity after his death at night as a punishment .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 5: West Alb. Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 .
  • Wilhelm Maute: Forgotten events from five centuries, happened in the city of Ebingen. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 1999.

Web links

Wikisource: Castle Meßstetten  - in the description of the Oberamt Balingen, legend Schimmelreiter Hossingen-Meßstetten from 1880

Individual evidence

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