Dreiherrenstein

Example: The three men stones at Breitenstein

Dreiherrenstein or Dreiherrnstein is the topographical name for places and squares at the intersection of three lords and their enclosures and border fortifications.

Dreiherrensteine ​​can be found in the following places, for example:

• Boundary stone between the communities Friesenhagen , Wenden and the city of Freudenberg . It is the former border of the Wildenburg rule with the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and the Principality of Nassau-Siegen .
• The boundary stone in Wiesbaden-Medenbach in the "Wellinger" district formerly marked the borders of Nassau-Idstein , Kurmainz and Hessen-Darmstadt . It is dated 1730.
• Boundary stone between the dioceses of Münster , Osnabrück and Orange .
• Boundary stone in the municipality of Bellingen on the border between Kurtrier , Nassau-Orange and Sayn-Hachenburg , dated 1780.
• Boundary stone between Kurtrier , Nassau-Orange and Sayn-Hachenburg in the municipality of Rothenbach , 1790.
• Dreiherrenstein in the source basin of the Krabach on the border point between the Archbishopric and Electorate of Cologne , the Duchy of Berg and the County of Sayn near the Cölnische Hohe Heer- und Geleitstrasse (also called Frankfurter Strasse , now part of the Bundesstrasse 8 ) and the military forces that used to be there previously mentioned territories. The Dreiherrenstein is destroyed. In its place, at 50 ° 42 '42.42 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 20.52 ″  E , in the basin of the Krabach on the Asbach plateau of the Niederwesterwald , between the villages of Meisenbach (a district of the city ​​of Hennef (Sieg) ) and Kircheib , on Dreisteinenweg and the corridor An den Drei Steinen , is today a monument in the form of a basalt boulder , at 263.7  m above sea level. NN . To this day, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Cologne district , Rhein-Sieg district ), the Neuwied district of Rhineland-Palatinate ( Asbach community, Buchholz community ) and the Altenkirchen district of Rhineland-Palatinate ( Altenkirchen community (Westerwald) , local community ) border at this point Churchib) to each other. In addition, the border between the town of Hennef (Sieg) and the municipality of Eitorf (both located in the Rhein-Sieg district) , which runs along the Krabach, ends at this point.
• Dreiherrenstein near Oberwiesenthal in the Ore Mountains.
• Dreilagenstein Geyer in the Ore Mountains.
• Boundary stone on the Ravensberg (Harz) .
• Border stone on the Hartenberg near Elbingerode (Harz) .
• Border stone south of Benneckenstein on the Harzquerbahn at the former Kälberbruch station, border between Kingdom of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia and Duchy of Braunschweig from 1841.
• Border stone east of northern Halben in the Franconian Forest, border between the prince-bishopric of Bamberg, the rulership of Gera (later the principality of Reuss j. L.) and the rulership of Lichtenberg (later the margraviate of Kulmbach-Bayreuth, then the Kgr. Prussia, finally the Kgr. Bavaria)
• Dreiherrnstein am Riemen between the ( Kurköllschem ) Sauerland , Wittgensteiner Land and Siegerland on a hill (674.0 m) near the Riemen mountain in the Rothaargebirge.
• Dreifürstenstein on the 854 m high Dreifürstenstein near Mössingen (Tübingen district) from the 17th century.
• Dreiherrensteine ​​from Hainich in western Thuringia.
• Dreiherrenstein near Sohland / Spree in Upper Lusatia from 1750, with the coats of arms of the neighboring rulers: von der Sahla (Sohland), Count Salm-Reifferscheidt ( Hainspach in Bohemia) and St. Petri Bautzen Cathedral ( Wehrsdorf ).
• Border stone, called table stone , on the slope of the table spruce ( Smrk ) in the Jizera Mountains ; Since ancient times it has formed the border point between Upper Lusatia , Silesia and Bohemia and from 1742 to 1815 it was also the triangle between Saxony , Prussia and Austria .
• Dreiherrenstein in the basement forest at the former border point of Hessen-Darmstadt (marked GH), Hessen-Kassel (KH) and Waldeck (W or FW for the principality of Waldeck ).
• Dreiherrenstein am Weißenberg (district of Südwestpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate) in the Palatinate Forest at the former border point of the possessions of the Wittelsbach dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrücken , the Counts of Leiningen and the lordship of Graefenstein .
• Dreiherrenstein Neustall in Vogelsberg, Hesse, at the intersection of the Hintersteinau , Neustall and Holzmühl districts .
• Boundary stone number 467.3 at the meeting of the districts Bad Kreuznach , Altenbamberg and Frei-Laubersheim , which marked the triangle of Prussia , Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt from 1815 to 1945 . The stone became so heavy on November 12, 1933 (the day of the first Reichstag election with NSDAP unified list ) as part of a large-scale destruction campaign by the Hitler Youth , who fell victim to at least 77 boundary stones in the Rhine-Hesse-Palatinate border area alone damaged so that the images on it are no longer recognizable; instead, the abbreviation "HJ", which is still visible today, was attached as a sign of authorship.
• Dreiherrenstein am Heldrastein near Treffurt ( Wartburgkreis , Thuringia) on the Hessian-Thuringian state border at a former border point between Kgr.Prussia ( province of Saxony , administrative region of Erfurt ), Kgr. Prussia, province of Hessen-Nassau , administrative district of Kassel (before 1866, Electorate of Hesse ) and Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . Probably built after 1866, restored in 2002, height 488.5 m above sea level. NN.
• Dreiherrenstein near Maltitz on the border between Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
• Dreiländerstein (Eggenthal) , on the border between Eggenthal , Ostallgäu and Unteregg , Unterallgäu at the former border point between Irsee Monastery , Kempten Abbey and Mindelheim .
• Dreiherrenstein (Frankenweide) , Palatinate Forest.
• Dreiherrnstein on the Köterberg (the one on the heights of the Southern Schwalenberger Lipper mountainous region is located) to 51 ° 51 '17.82 "  N , 9 ° 19' 22.66"  O and 474.5  m above sea level. NHN . The North Rhine-Westphalian district of Lippe , the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Höxter and the Lower Saxony district of Holzminden meet at this border point .

An accumulation of 13  Dreiherrensteinen is known on the Rennsteig , eleven of them in Thuringia and two in Bavaria . Not all of these thirteen are available. The thirteen boundary stones from west to east:

• Dreiherrenstein am Glasbach (1643, near Ruhla  - lost),
• Dreiherrenstein am Großer Weißenberg (1783, near Steinbach ),
• Dreiherrenstein am Hangweg (1586, near Floh-Seligenthal ),
• Gustav-Freytag- Stein (1719, near Oberhof  - Dreiherrenstein missing),
• Stein 16 or Dietzel-Geba-Stein (1734, near Oberhof),
• Kleiner Dreiherrenstein (1630, near Frauenwald ),
• Großer Dreiherrenstein (1596, near Frauenwald),
• Dreiherrenstein an der Hohen Heide (1846, near Masserberg ),
• Dreistromstein and Kleiner Dreiherrenstein (1733, near Siegmundsburg ),
• Dreiherrenstein Hohe (r) Lach (1548, near Neuhaus am Rennweg ),
• Dreiherrenstein Sperbersbach (1821, near Tettau ),
• Dreiwappenstein am Kießlich (1717, near Steinbach am Wald ),
• Dreiherrenstein Hohe Tanne (1845, near Brennersgrün ).

See also:

• Tri-border region

Web links

Commons : Dreiherrenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ^ Willi Matthes: The forgotten state border. Verlag der Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, Alzey 2007; Page 279 ff; Photo page 282
4. ↑ Dreiherrenstein am Heldrastein ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Environment map service of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection ( notes ) (height information interpolated from contour map).