Dreiherrenstein
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:
Web links
Commons : Dreiherrenstein - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ^ Willi Matthes: The forgotten state border. Verlag der Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, Alzey 2007; Page 279 ff; Photo page 282
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Environment map service of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection ( notes ) (height information interpolated from contour map).