The cursed virgin hole

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Entry to the cave "the cursed Jungfernloch" on the eastern slope of Eisenach Castle

The cursed Jungfernloch is the name of a rock cave above the Kälbergrund, a small side valley of the Mariental, in a rock face on the eastern slope of Eisenach Castle , about 500 meters south of the Wartburg in Eisenach .

The rock cave got its name after a folk tale that was printed in the anonymous collection of folk tales published in Eisenach in 1795 and subsequently edited by Ludwig Bechstein , among others . According to this, a beautiful maid once lived in Eisenach who never went to church "because she had too many and too beautiful robes and was never finished with her plaster" and was therefore cursed by her mother. Since then she has lived in the cave and only shows up every seven years at the entrance, where she sits and cries, and "her golden hair flows over it, she combs it with a golden comb, like the Lurlei on the Rhine."

literature

  • Ludwig Bechstein: German book of legends . Georg Wigand, Leipzig 1853.
  • Heinrich Weigel: The "Cursed Jungfernloch" - reality and fama about a rift cave in Eisenach Castle . In: Heimatblätter '93 of the Eisenacher country . (= EP Report 4) 1993. pp. 96-99.
  • Schmidt: The damned maid . Wartburgland from June 21, 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 39.3 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 34.1"  E