Galgenberg (Thiersheim)
| Gallows Mountain | ||
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| height | 583 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge , Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Fichtel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 5 '15 " N , 12 ° 7' 16" E | |
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The Galgenberg near Thiersheim is an unwooded 583 m above sea level. NHN high hill in the eastern Fichtel Mountains . Its summit is one kilometer north of Markt Thiersheim and 800 meters west of its Neuenreuth district in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains (northeast Bavaria). The Saar-Schlesien-Weg hiking trail and the Bavaria-Bohemia bridge cycle path run over the mountain .
Court
As the name suggests, there has been a gallows on the hill for the execution of judgments since the Middle Ages . The following executions are documented in the archives :
- 1430 Nickl Forster by beheading for robbery
- March 18, 1581 Jobst Seydenschneider from Pernwalt by wheeling for fifteen robbery murders
- February 28, 1772 Johann Lösch by hanging because of many thefts
- February 5, 1790 Johann Mergenthal by hanging for robbery of mail cars
Small monuments
A replica of a customs column and a memorial stone to the former place of execution stand on the Galgenberg. On the way there is the poor sinner fountain.
Altstrasse
A road ran over the hill, which came from Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate and led via Selb and Asch (Aš) to Saxony . When passing the customs column, the traders had to pay a road toll to the authorities. The amount of the fee was based on a table on the adjacent folding rule.
literature
- Schelter Siegfried: The ball scraper - Der Thiersheimer Flurnamenschatz , Heft 5 (2015), pp. 23, 35
- Singer Friedrich Wilhelm: Heimat an der Hohen Warte , Thiersheim 1982
Topographic maps
Fritsch hiking map No. 52 Fichtelgebirge Nature Park and Steinwald Nature Park, scale 1: 50,000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Poor Sinner Brünnlein on the website of the Fichtelbergverein eV Wunsiedel