Hungerstein (Westerhausen)
The Hungerstein is a protected monument on the corridor of the Westerhausen district of the city of Thale in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located on the south side of the local corridor on Jatschenberg, not far from the four-lane federal highway 6 , via whose junction Thale it can be reached via the connecting road from Westerhausen to Börnecke . To the east of the Hungerstein rises the striking Königstein near Westerhausen with the vineyard slopes.
History and design
The stone, a boulder , was erected on the north side of a gorge on the old course of the historic trade route between Halberstadt and Quedlinburg in 1931, when during the Great Depression several unemployed people repaired and stabilized the old dry stone walls and retaining walls on behalf of the local labor service were. Today the route of German emperors and kings runs there .
Due to the construction of the four-lane federal highway 6 , the Hungerstein was in a relatively unfavorable, little-used place, so that it was moved west of the Königstein in 2011 and the inscription was refreshed.
The hunger stone is recorded in the local monument register with registration number 094 45383.
In the area, near the town of Blankenburg (Harz) in Helsunger Bruch, there is the Kleiner Hungerstein , which emerged from a boundary stone on the Prussian-Brunswick border.
inscription
"Memorial stone
d. sad
times of the
poor
1931 "
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3
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Westerhäuser Heimatblätter . Published by Heimatmuseum Westerhausen on behalf of the municipal administration and in cooperation with the Association for Local History and Nature Conservation
- Vol. 1 Monuments in Westerhausen , 1993.
- Vol. 6-7 small monuments around and in Westerhausen , 1998/99.