Dreiwappenstein am Kießlich
The Dreiwappenstein am Kießlich (state border stone no. 634) is a historical border stone from the 18th century on the border between the two German states of Bavaria and Thuringia .
location
The Dreiwappenstein is located about two kilometers southeast of Lauenhain , a part of the municipality of the Upper Franconian town of Ludwigsstadt , on Eppenberg; However, it is named after the mountain Kießlich a little further north. It is one of what was once 13 three-man stones on the Rennsteig . Due to the large number of border stones adorned with coats of arms , part of the Rennsteig section between Steinbach am Wald and Brennersgrün , where the Dreiwappenstein am Kießlich is located, is called the Schönwappenweg .
description
The boundary stone made of sandstone - without the foot anchored in the ground - has a height of 75 cm, a width of 40 cm and a depth of 36 cm. On the northwest side it bears the only fragmentary coat of arms of the Margraviate of Bayreuth , the Brandenburg eagle , and below it the number "717" (1717) and the inscription "I4 OCTOB" (originally probably "DEN4 OCTOBR"). The south-western side of the three-coat of arms shows the official coat of arms of Lothar Franz von Schönborn , Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery and Elector and Archbishop of Mainz . Under the coat of arms are the number "171" (1717) and the inscription "EN4 OCTO" (= "DEN4 OCTOBR"). On the third side, pointing towards Thuringia, the raised coat of arms of the Duchy of Saxony can be seen, including the year "1717" and the fragment of the inscription "N4 OCTO" (= "DEN4 OCTOBR").
North-west side with the coat of arms of the Margraviate of Bayreuth
South-west side with the coat of arms of the bishopric of Bamberg
history
The three coat of arms stone on the Kießlich was set in 1717 and had two predecessors from 1513 and 1619. Once it separated the territories of the Margraviate Bayreuth, the bishopric of Bamberg and the Duchy of Saxony, today it marks the border point of the districts of the Upper Franconian cities Ludwigsstadt and Teuschnitz and the southern Thuringian city of Lehesten .
In June 1921, the city of Lehesten issued a series of emergency banknotes showing the whetstone tower built in 1902 and blown up in 1979 and several of the boundary stones on Schönwappenweg. The three sides of the three-coat of arms stone can be seen on three of the banknotes; the coat of arms of the margraviate of Bayreuth with the Brandenburg eagle is still complete on the picture. The damage to the coat of arms dates back to the time of the Second World War . American or Soviet soldiers probably wanted to destroy the eagle as a supposed Prussian symbol.
The Dreiwappenstein is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments. Because of its location it is both in the monument list of Ludwigsstadt and in the list of city Teuschnitz included.
literature
- Siegfried Scheidig, Martin Weber: Documentation about the restored historical border coats of arms on the inner-German border in the district of Kronach . Ed .: Geological and local history study group Ludwigsstadt. 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schönwappenweg. Rennnsteigverein 1896 eV, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Siegfried Scheidig, Martin Weber: Documentation on the restored historical border coat of arms stones on the inner-German border in the district of Kronach . Ed .: Geological and local history study group Ludwigsstadt. 1985.
- ↑ Manfred Kastner, Ulrich Rüger: The Rennsteig - historical boundary stones . Ed .: Thuringian Rennsteigverein eV Neustadt am Rennsteig. 1st edition. Bergemann Druck GmbH, Königsee 2008, ISBN 978-3-939399-05-6 , p. 4 .
- ↑ Manfred Kastner, Ulrich Rüger: The Rennsteig - historical boundary stones . Ed .: Thuringian Rennsteigverein eV Neustadt am Rennsteig. 1st edition. Bergemann Druck GmbH, Königsee 2008, ISBN 978-3-939399-05-6 , p. 9 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 36.2 " N , 11 ° 25 ′ 14.5" E