Frauenstein (Upper Palatinate Forest)

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Frauenstein
Frauenstein from the west

Frauenstein from the west

height 835  m
location Bavaria , Germany
Mountains Upper Palatinate Forest
Coordinates 49 ° 27 '56 "  N , 12 ° 31' 54"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '56 "  N , 12 ° 31' 54"  E
Frauenstein (Upper Palatinate Forest) (Bavaria)
Frauenstein (Upper Palatinate Forest)

The Frauenstein is a mountain in the Upper Palatinate Forest . It is located in the municipality of Weiding in the Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf , Bavaria between Weiding and Schneeberg .

The height of the Frauenstein is given as 835 m or 875 m, depending on the source.

The remains of Frauenstein Castle are on the Frauenstein . As with the Frauenstein, the height of the castle ruins is given as 865 m or 875 m, depending on the source.

In part, these different heights are perhaps based on the fact that a gradually rising ridge with several secondary peaks extends from Frauenstein to the 886 m high Signalberg in the southeast . The Frauenstein castle ruins are located on one of these side peaks and are therefore slightly higher than the Frauenstein itself, but lower than the Signalberg.

There is a black cross on the summit of the Frauenstein. According to popular belief, the wood of this cross helps against toothache if you chew it. While the pious Weidingers keep vigil in the church from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday , the Weidinger youth have the custom of walking to the Black Cross that night laden with beer and having a drink there - a not entirely harmless undertaking, because there is often still a lot of snow on the mountainside. This custom has its origins in a legend about a treasure in Frauenstein Castle.

literature

  • Teresa Guggenmoos: City of Schönsee. Verlag der Stadt Schönsee, Schönsee 1981.
  • Heribert Batzl (Ed.): The Oberviechtach district in the past and present. Publishing house for authorities and economy R. Alfred Hoeppner, Aßling / Obb. and Munich 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fritsch hiking map Schönseer Land, scale 1: 35000
  2. ^ A b Teresa Guggenmoos: The nature. In: Heribert Batzl (ed.): The district of Oberviechtach in the past and present. Publishing house for authorities and economy R. Alfred Hoeppner, Aßling / Obb. and Munich 1970, p. 20.
  3. ^ Theodor Keck: The tourism. In: Heribert Batzl (ed.): The district of Oberviechtach in the past and present. Publishing house for authorities and economy R. Alfred Hoeppner, Aßling / Obb. and Munich 1970, p. 264.
  4. ^ Teresa Guggenmoos: City of Schönsee. Verlag der Stadt Schönsee, Schönsee 1981, p. 11
  5. ^ Paulinus Fröhlich : Weiding bei Schönsee contributions to the history of the place. Weiding 1956, p. 58
  6. ^ Paulinus Fröhlich: Weiding bei Schönsee contributions to the history of the place. Weiding 1956, p. 57
  7. ^ Paulinus Fröhlich: Weiding bei Schönsee contributions to the history of the place. Weiding 1956, pp. 91, 92
  8. ^ Teresa Guggenmoos: City of Schönsee. Verlag der Stadt Schönsee, Schönsee 1981, p. 189

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