Hirschsprung (memorial stone)
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 34.3 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 24.8 ″ E The Hirschsprung is a memorial site in southern Lower Saxony between the places Holtershausen and Greene in the Greener Forest, marked by two memorial stones on a special event from the year 1606 indicates. On August 26, 1606, a great hunt took place near Holtershausen. Duke Heinrich Julius placed a memorial stone on astag that was shot there,known as the "Hirschsprung". The inscription is in the lower part of the stone in a rectangular field with raised capital letters from Roman Antiqua . A stepped round gable with two large volutes at the sides rises above a groove at the side. The flat stone is 170 cm high, 89 cm wide and 23 cm deep. In the gable field, next to the bas-relief of a twelve-pronged deer, there is the weight of the animal of 5.5 quintals .
The inscription reads:
"THE 26 AUGUSTI ANNO 1606
, THE HOCHWIRDIGER
DURCHLEUCHTIGER high-born
FURST UN Lord HENRICUS
JULIUS POSTULIRTER BISCHOFF
OF STIFFTES HALBERSTADT
AND DUKE OF BRUNSWICK
AND LUNEBURG AT THIS ORTH
A HIRSCH AUFF BOXSTAL GESCHOS-
SEN WHAT TO RECEIVED
SHOT OF THIS Stedt ABOUT
THE HAGEN UP TO JUMPING THE OTHER
DRAWINGS WITH EQUAL
FOOT "
An unlabeled stone 11 meters away shows the enormous breadth of the deer jump. It is roughly hewn, ends in a point that is also roughly hewn and is 154 cm high, 47 cm wide and 25 cm deep.
The place around the memorial stones is provided with a seat and information board and is maintained by the local history associations from Greene and Holtershausen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ = place designated for shooting
- ↑ = same
- ↑ Einbeck's villages, pictures from past times, Erich Strauss, Duderstadt 1995, section Holtershausen p. 47ff.
- ↑ The Deer Spring Stones from Greene by Jürgen Sander. In: Südniedersachsen, journal for regional research and home care of the working group Südniedersächsische Heimatfreunde, Northeim. H. 2/2006, p. 38.