Boundary stone (Vilshofen)

The landmarked boundary stone (D-3-71-146-12) in Vilshofen is on Kreuther Straße, which forms a section of the Vilstal cycle path between Siegenhofen and Vilshofen.

history

The boundary stone separated the area of ​​the Electoral Palatinate part of the Upper Palatinate from that of the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich ; this border was created in 1329 after the house contract of Pavia . Since the dukes of Bavaria-Munich had pledged their Upper Palatinate area to the Electoral Palatinate since 1336, this border had no effect until the beginning of the 16th century. This changed after the Landshut War of Succession of 1505, as a result of which the Duchy of the Young Palatinate was founded for Ottheinrich and Philipp and u. a. the area around Burglengenfeld was included there. Since Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in his duchy with his religious mandate of June 22, 1542 , this state border also became a religious border. It was only under Elector Karl Theodor that these areas came under control again and the border was only an internal border and divided the districts of Amberg and Burglengenfeld from one another. The last change came in 1927 when the municipality of Vilshofen was spun off from Burglengenfeld and incorporated into the Amberg district office.

The boundary stone

The boundary stone was set after 1505, probably around 1507. It consists of so-called Kallmünzer quartzite sandstone and protrudes approx. 42 cm from the earth; with the buried part it is 80 cm high. The width is 45 cm and the depth 33 cm. On the broad sides there are coats of arms of the two states, on one side the Palatinate lion , on the other the Wittelsbach diamond . The heavily weathered stone was renovated in 2000 and provided with a notice board.

literature

• Hubert Haas: An old national border. In: amberg information , August 2001, pp. 33-37.

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 11.7 "  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 55.8"  E