Dreiherrenstein near Oberwiesenthal
The Dreiherrenstein is a listed historical boundary stone on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czech Republic near the spa town of Oberwiesenthal .
Geographical location
The shortest way to get to the Dreiherrenstein is to follow the road in the direction of Klínovec from Boží Dar or from the New House over the border crossing and turn left onto a paved path after the power house at the wind turbine. At its end, a path leads along the state border to the stone, which stands on the southern edge of the nature reserve Schlauderwiese at an altitude of 1165 m above sea level in the border tip.
history
The Dreiherrenstein, known in the Ore Mountains vernacular as the triangular Raastaa or also as Wappenstein (called Dreiländerstein in the GDR), marked the place where the former rule of Schwarzenberg of the Lords of Tettau, the possessions of the Lords of Schönburg (the upper county of Hartenstein ) and the Lords of Schlick on Schlackenwerth and Sankt Joachimsthal bordered one another.
The stone bears the year 1729 , because that was the year in which 79 new Rainstones began to be set on the border between Jugel and Oberwiesenthal, which lasted three years . However, it is older and was erected as a triangular column on the solar vortex as early as 1677 next to the boundary stone No. 287, which divided the Joachimsthalische, Chursächsische and Ambt Hauensteinische Gränizen . Accordingly, the triangular border stone received the coats of arms of the adjacent areas as a relief in 1729. The boundary stone was reworked by the master stonemason Matthes Ebert from Sankt Joachimsthal .
In order to secure the state border from the Schwarzwasser near Johanngeorgenstadt to the Sonnenwirbel (Keilberg), a boundary ditch, which partly still exists today, was dug in the years 1842/43 and the triangular boundary stone with the current number 376 and the letters KS (= Kingdom of Saxony ) and KB (= Kingdom of Bohemia ).
layout
- South side: coat of arms of Austria (double-headed eagle) for the Bohemian office of St. Joachimsthal, year 1729 and name Joachimsthal
- North-east side: Coat of arms of the rule Hauenstein : Alliance coat of arms of the margraves of Baden and the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg, year 1729 and name Hauenstein
- North-west side: Electoral Saxon-Polish coat of arms with the letters FARPES = Fridericus Augustus Rex Poloniae Elector Saxoniae and the name Saxony
literature
- Richard Schmidt: The main stone on the solar vortex from 1729 . In: Gebirgsvereinsverband Sudetenland-West (Hrsg.): Erzgebirgs-Zeitung . Monthly for folklore and local history, hiking care and tourism . 5th and 6th issue of the 63rd year. Teplitz-Schönau December 1942, p. 36-41 ( digitized version ).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 17 ″ N , 12 ° 56 ′ 53.4 ″ E