Fraischstein
A Fraischstein is a boundary stone from the Middle Ages that made the jurisdiction of the respective blood jurisdiction visible. The legal term Fraiss comes from the term Fraiss in the sense of horror, fear, pain, danger . The boundary between the areas of different high jurisdictions was called the Fraiss boundary. At this border the blood jurisdiction of another (high) court ended or began. Fraischsteine are classified as land monument.
distribution
The stones, which are particularly common in Bavaria, are relatively large and have the rough shape of a frog, which is why they were also known as frogs in the past .
A so-called frog stands in the Upper Franconian town of Schwarzenbach an der Saale . It has an estimated weight of 170 tons, is about 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters high. Frog and mouse rocks are registered geotopes . The local researcher Karl Bedal put forward a very controversial theory, according to which different mostly very old objects in the landscape can be connected by lines and are at a certain distance from one another. So he also connected the frog rock with the rondel on the Kaiserhammer. This theory is criticized as speculative and mystifying, especially since there is no compelling internal connection, not even in time, between the objects.
literature
- Karl Bedal : The mysterious . Frankenpost Verlag, Hof 1986.
