Husarenstein (Hüffenhardt)
The Hussar Stone (also Franzosenstein ) near Hüffenhardt in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg is a small memorial that commemorates a French hussar killed in 1799 .
history
The stone on the road between Siegelsbach and Hüffenhardt commemorates a French hussar who was killed on October 22, 1799 in the Second Coalition War in the fighting between the Austrians and the French.
The inscription on the stone reads: ON THIS PLAZ IS A FRENCH HUSSAR FROM A KK SEEKLER HUSSAR IGNAT ON OCT 22, 1799. LADISLAUS KILLED IN AN ATACT WITHOUT PARTON AND BURIED ALDA AS A BRAVE SOLDIER. The episode is also noted in the community chronicle of council clerk T. Flachser. It says there that the Szekler hussar, Private Ignatius Ladislaus from Transylvania , who fought on the side of Austria, split the head of the French hussar at the point indicated. The two local gravedigger then buried the dead man in the presence of the Szekler hussars and the Palatinate troops . A sergeant of the Szekler hussars gave the funeral speech and described the dead man as a good soldier. The stone was then set as an epitaph .
Say
This extraordinary tribute to a killed opponent spurred the imagination of the storytellers, so that stories far beyond the actual historically guaranteed process have found their way into collections of sagas. The hussar stone is the subject of sagas in the Kurpfälzer Sagenborn by Jakob Bernhard (published in Heidelberg 1933) and in the sagas from the Rhine to the Main by Reinhard Hoppe (published in Bühl 1958). The legend turns the French into a prisoner who tried to assassinate the Austrian. The subsequent punishing death blow with the saber is embellished in the legend with a confused language. And finally, according to legend, the Austrian even discovered his own brother in the French.
literature
- Hugo Hagn: The "Husarenstein" at Hüffenhardt. In: Badische Heimat. Issue 4, 1961, pp. 379–381 and cover picture.
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '16.4 " N , 9 ° 5' 3.4" E