The list of sagas from the treasure bowling game includes a (incomplete) collection with information on the content and location of the sagas from the treasure bowling game , especially the golden bowling game, which are widespread in the German and French-speaking countries. The group of these legends is always with the cone game device connected (cone Ries = totality of the cone, single cone , ball or bowling lane made of gold and / or silver). The locations on this list indicate a treasure in one of these figures that is supposed to be there. To date, no treasure of this kind has been found.
Numbering: The legends are numbered with four digits. The first letter is a language code that indicates from which people the saga comes: D = German, E = Spanish, F = French. The first digit is a country code that indicates the state in which the legend is located. 0 = Germany, 1 = France, 2 = Italy, 3 = Austria, 4 = Switzerland, 5 = Spain, 6 = Czech Republic. The next two digits are consecutive numbers within a country. Say that are spatially so close to each other that they probably originally go back to a common legendary location, do not receive their own number, but a continuous letter. D108 means: German language - France - Sage 08 in France. D117a means: German language - Germany - legend 17 in Germany, 2nd legend location.
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Germany
D001 Castle Iburg (ruin) near Tiefenstein ( Görwihl ), Baden-Wuerttemberg. Variant A: While looking for hazelnuts on the mountain, a boy finds a cave from which it shimmers brightly. There he meets a bowling knight society (ghosts) who use him as a bowling boy . As a reward he receives gold pieces. When he got home, he found out that he wasn't gone for a day, but for seven whole years. The GKS can sometimes be seen brightly at night on the mountain, but it was never found. Variant B: While collecting wood in the castle, a boy meets twelve ghosts who use him as a bowling boy. At the ringing twelve o'clock they stop bowling and give the boy a yellow cone before they disappear with the last stroke of the bell. The boy leaves the heavy cone on the way home and learns from his father that the cone must have been made of gold. But when the boy tries to get the cone, he only finds a piece of wood in its place.
D002 Homburg Castle (Burgstall) near Ettikon ( Tiengen ), Baden-Württemberg. A knight of the castle stole a great treasure from his surroundings, which he hid in an underground passage. At night you can see knights and knights' wives on the mountain. The knight's daughter appears every hundred years during Lent and asks a passer-by to bring up the treasure in order to redeem her and her father. She is mostly on the river near the castle hill. A fisherman follows her plea for redemption and goes into the mountain cave with a capuchin. In the 1st cave there is nothing special, in the 2nd church utensils and a GKS, in the 3rd a box with money, which he should touch for her redemption. Since a black, fire-breathing poodle lies on the box, the fisherman faints and is brought out of the cave by the Capuchin.
D003 Belchen (mountain in the Black Forest), Baden-Wuerttemberg. In the Belchen there is a golden log on a silver sawhorse. And there is a lake in the mountain in which a GKS and a golden meadow tree swim.
D004 Zähringen Castle (ruin) on the Rosskopf near Freiburg-Zähringen , Baden-Württemberg. A GKS is buried on the site, which was often searched for in the past, but which was never found.
D004a Schlossberg in Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden-Wuerttemberg. A GKS of the dwarfs lies in the mountain, in which it sometimes thunders and rolls. A ghost tries to hit all nines with the ball, but never gets more than eight at a time.
D004b Oberried (municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau), Baden-Württemberg. A knight builds a castle with a priceless golden cone ring and hides it in a treasury. Gnomes are playing with it when a boy named Stefan discovers them. When a fraudster tries to see the Kegelries, it disappears forever.
D005 Hohenkrähen Castle (ruin) on the Hohenkrähen near Duchtlingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Popele, a hard-hearted bailiff of the castle in the Middle Ages, skittles with the GKS in the underground vault on Sundays. Two craftsmen meet him and go bowling. On the way, one of them finds a (worthless) ball in his backpack and throws it away. The other later puts down his satchel and finds a gold cone in it. The former then searches for his ball, but can no longer find it. Since then the booger has only played eight skittles.
D006 Röhrenberg, also Rauhesetzebühl, (hill) near Allensbach , Baden-Württemberg. A fellow craftsman rests at the source of the hill. Then the mountain opens at the crack of the spring, it shines out and the young man sees a GKS with two golden balls. Then there is a bang and the opening and the GKS are gone. An old man (dwarf?) Explains to him that he only had to throw his stick into the opening and it would have been his.
D007 Abtsberg (hill) between Sipplingen and Sußenmühle, Baden-Württemberg. In a cave is a GKS, which is protected by an iron grating and could never be lifted. At night you can sometimes hear bowling, the rolling of the ball, the falling of the pins.
D008 Neu-Dettingen Castle near Konstanz , Baden-Württemberg. A knight owned a GKS and bowled with it. He finally buried it in the courtyard. Since he cannot find peace, he rolls the ball on eerie, dark nights or when digging for the GKS.
D010 Salzstadel (building) in Ravensburg , Baden-Wuerttemberg. A GKS is located under the building and is said to have been heard and seen many times. A night watchman sees a ball rolling past him towards the GKS, looks and receives a slap in the face.
D011 Alt-Kißlegg (Burgstall) near Kißlegg , Baden-Württemberg. A GKS lies in the hill of the castle stable, guarded by a ghost.
D012 Wessobrunn Monastery in Wessobrunn , Bavaria. The monastery once had a GKS, a "push poodle game" that was cleared away in the vaults under the monastery church or the monastery in troubled times and was never found again afterwards.
D012a Königsbruch (quarry) near Paterzell , Bavaria. Variant A : A GKS is buried in the breach that could never be found. Variant B : A GKS is buried in the breach that could never be found. Each cone is nine inches high.
D013 Alteberstein (ruin) near Ebersteinburg . Variant A: In a vault of the castle there are boxes with money, skittles and a golden calf, guarded by a black dog. Variant B: Similar to variant A, only that there are 5 boxes and a silver skittles game.
D014 Hochberg Castle near Remseck , Baden-Württemberg. A shepherd boy meets twelve knights in the castle on Sundays, who are bowling with nine golden pins and two golden balls. As a bowling jack, he is rewarded with four gold pieces, after which society disappears into thin air. At home he shows his treasure and learns that he has been away for three days. The GKS has since disappeared. In Germany's greatest need, the twelve haunted come back and free the country from its misery.
D015 Granegg Castle (Burgrest) near Wißgoldingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg. The knights had a GKS and bowled with it. In wartime they buried it in the mountain. You can see it in thunderstorms, thunder or rainbows.
D016 Hornberg Castle near Neckarzimmern or Hornberg Castle (ruin) near Hornberg in the Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg. A GKS is buried under the castle.
D017 Drachenfels Castle (ruin) near Busenberg , Rhineland-Palatinate. Variant A: There is a silver bowling game in the castle fountain, which is guarded by a fire-breathing toad. Three sisters in white robes are believed to have been seen in the ruins. A dragon is said to have flown against the Drachenfels (on the same mountain). Variant B: In the castle there is a GKS with which the ghosts bowle.
D017a Altdahn Castle (ruin) near Dahn , Rhineland-Palatinate. In the castle there is a GKS, which the ghosts bowle with.
D018 Schauenforst Castle (ruin) on the Schlossberg near Rödelwitz , Thuringia. Variant A: A GKS is buried in the ruin. Variant B: After the harvest has been destroyed (due to flooding), an evil knight squeezes out his subjects and uses what he has obtained to make a GKS and bowls with it. An old man, from whom he took everything, curses him for bowling forever with the GKS. The bowling knight can still be heard on sultry nights.
D019 Wysburg Castle (ruin), also Hunnenburg, on the hilltop of the castle near Neuenbeuthen , Thuringia. The last lords of the castle were robber barons who plundered and pillaged their surroundings. They had nine gold cones and eight silver balls made from their booty. When the castle was conquered, they sank the GKS into the castle well, which has not yet been found.
D020 Valtenberg (mountain) near Neukirch / Lausitz , Saxony. At night two hikers meet bowling dwarfs on the mountain and go bowling with them. Each of the two can take home a bullet. It becomes too heavy for the first one and he throws it into the stream. But the other person finds at home that his ball has turned into gold. The first one goes to the brook and can't find his own anymore. Since then the stream has been gold rich.
D021 Oderwitzer Spitzberg near Oderwitz , Saxony. Giants once lived on the mountain who liked to bowle with nine pins and six gold balls. As pagans they bowled themselves on All Saints' Day (November 1st) until midnight. Then the sky opened and a ball of fire descended and buried them together with the skittles. Since then there has been a lump of molten gold in the mountain, but it has not yet been found.
D022 Kyffhäuser (mountain), in the Harz , Thuringia / Saxony-Anhalt. A shepherd searching for his lost flock happening in the Midsummer night at eleven o'clock at night the mountain on. Knight spirits step out , among them the former Emperor Otto I. They bow to each other. At twelve o'clock sharp they go back into the mountain, which closes again. The shepherd takes the king pin of the skittles game. When he gets home the next morning, he is made of pure gold.
D023 Lüningsberg (hill) near Aerzen , Lower Saxony. Variant A: The spirits of the mountain used to bowle on the hill with a GKS. A journeyman weaver hides in the bushes at night and watches the bowling. An overturned cone falls at his feet, he has it in his hand and flees. The ghosts haunt him. On a bridge he jumps into the water of the Humme . Since they have no power over water, the spirits let go of it. The journeyman marries his girl and uses the gold to build a house next to which a linden tree still stood in the 19th century. Since the ghosts have been missing a bowling pin, they have stopped bowling. Variant B: Corresponds to variant A, except that the bowlers are dwarfs and the girl of the journeyman weaver is called Anna.
D024 Löbauer Berg near Löbau, Saxony. Two men met bowling dwarves on the mountain. They bowled together until late at night. Both received a ball as a gift. On the way home it became too heavy for one of them and he threw it into the bushes. The other carried it home and discovered that it had turned to gold. It made him a rich man.
D025 Schöneburg (Burgstall) between Altenbrak and Wendefurth , Saxony-Anhalt. There is a bowling alley with golden skittles in the castle. While looking for an escaped horse, a charcoal boy encountered the ghosts of the castle. They used him as a bowling boy. As a reward they promised him the horse. He also received the king of bowling. Since the cone seemed worthless, the boy threw it away. However, he looked for it again, and the cone had turned to gold. The other cones of the castle were not found.
D026 Haslachburg (Burgstall) between Weingarten and Albisreute, Baden-Württemberg. Every Good Friday, enchanted knights from the society of Charlemagne bowling with a GKS. Whoever redeems them owns the whole treasure. A monk once met the ghosts that day and went bowling. A year later he came back, played along, but stole a golden cone to add his gold to a bell casting. The bell had an extraordinary sound. When on the following Good Friday a nun began to ring the elf, the bell rang, broke from its suspension and rolled down the church tower and into town. The monk saw what was going on and hurried into the castle, where he was asked to bring back the missing cone. The bell was smashed and the cone jumped out, which the monk brought back to the spirits on the next Good Friday.
D027 Schlossberg in Ambringer Grund, Baden-Württemberg. In a vault lies a skittles game made up of nine silver skittles and three golden balls along with other treasures. A castle once stood on the mountain. The knights had the bowling game made from the ore of the nearby abandoned mine and the miners played with it. The golden key to the vault was kept on the altar of the Castle Church of St. Martin near the statue of the saint. When the lock fell into enemy hands, a hermit named Heini who lived nearby saved the key. Since then he has had to guard the treasure together with a black giant and a bear. Once he showed a man the treasure in the vault, but he was not allowed to take anything with him.
D028 Fürstenbühl (hill) near the hamlet Höllsteig, district of Owingen , Baden-Württemberg ( location ). 47.842095958056 9.1610527038889Variant A: Shepherd boys once found a GKS on the hill. They left their cattle and started bowling. So the cattle got lost and the boys went to round them up. When they returned to the game of skittles, it was gone. A toad crawled out of the bushes across the square. Variant B: Two boys found a golden ball on the hill. They put Reiser in the ground and started to throw the ball. One of them said: "Where is the ball?" "You have it yourself!" Was the answer. But the bullet had disappeared and could no longer be found. At home they learned that they should have taken the bullet with them. Variant C: Boys find cones and balls and go bowling with them until the playground equipment rolls down the slope. At home they find out that it is a GKS.
France
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F101 Castle ruins on a rocky plateau near La Châtelaine , Jura ( Lage ). 46.876944444444 5.8125A GKS is buried under the ruins.
F102 Cave in the Mont Vouan mountain near Fillinges , Pays de Savoie ( Lage ). 46.159722222222 6.3822222222222On Christmas Eve at midnight with the first stroke of the bell, a mountain wall opens in the cave and gold cones and balls can be seen. With the twelfth blow, the opening closes again. A man took the ball once, but his heel got stuck in the closing wall. A fairy who appeared did not release him until he released the ball.
F103 Cheyssac commune , Auvergne ( Lage ). 45.365833333333 2.5133333333333A corridor is said to run under the village in which there is a GKS that has been dug in vain.
F104 Castle ruins near Le Cluzel near Pontcirq , Midi-Pyrénées ( location ). 44.535277777778 1.2633333333333Buried under the ruins is a GKS that was unsuccessfully dug. The treasure is said to have been brought back to America.
F105 Montségu Castle on a hill near Rimont , Midi-Pyrénées ( location ). 42.992222222222 1.2880555555556The lord of the castle owned a GKS that is said to have been brought back to America.
F107 Barre Castle near Bierné , Pays de la Loire ( location ). 47.807222222222 -0.57472222222222The grave of a fourteen-year-old girl who died around 1600 is said to have contained a GKS that was stolen during the French Revolution. A farmer is said to have sold one of these golden cones and become very rich as a result.
D108 Arnsburg (Burgrest) on the Arnsberg near Obersteinbach , Alsace ( approximate location ). 49.0375 7.6852777777778Knights throw golden balls at silver cones.
D201 Tribulaun (mountain) Italy, South Tyrol / Austria, Tyrol. Variant A (Obernberg, Austria): Once there was a mine whose miners were so rich that they had a GKS with which they bowled. After peeling the skin of a live bull and sprinkling it with salt, the tunnels collapsed. Surviving miners buried the GKS in a cave in the mountain. The plague took the last of them away. Variant B (Steinach, Austria): While trying to escape the plague, the last miners fell dead on the mountain. A GKS was found with them, which is said to be hidden under the Rasselstein in the Obernberger Tal. An ox once saw a dwarf whom he wanted to ask about the location of the GKS. His team of oxen distracted him, after which the dwarf was gone. Variant C (Pflersch, South Tyrol): Near the green lake on the mountain you will find Knappenlöcher and the field names Schatzgraben and Knappentanzplatz. A silver skittles game is said to be buried there. In a different context, it is also told here of the wicked squires who had peeled the skin of an ox alive and roasted and salted it. Variant D (Pflersch): Once upon a time, the Pflersch valley was ruled by a hard-hearted tyrant who had a GKS. The miners revolted and the king chased the rebels into the mountains. Then the spirit of the Tribulaun appeared and turned the king to stone. The GKS has been buried somewhere in the mountains since then.
D202 mine (closed) near the Weitenberger Alm near Pfunders , South Tyrol. After a natural disaster, the gold mine had to be abandoned by the miners and their GKS disappeared.
D203 hill of St. Sisinius near Laas , South Tyrol. A GKS is buried in the mound.
D204 Juval Castle near Staben ( Naturns ), South Tyrol. There is a GKS in the basement. Occasionally at night you could see a glowing, golden ball floating from the castle into the valley and back again, but you haven't seen it for a long time.
D205 Kratzberger See near the Missensteiner Joch near Falzeben, South Tyrol. A GKS lies on the bottom of the lake.
D206 Villandersberg , Seebergalm and Villanderer Alm, South Tyrol. Variant A (Villanders): In the black lake on the Seebergalm there are nine cones and a ball made of gold. Option B : In the Middle Ages, the emperor gave the miners on the Seebergalm nine cones and three gold balls. The miners play every evening. One evening they forget to clean up the Kegelries. An offended squire throws the bowling game into the black lake, where it is still today and could never be found. Variant C : The Seebergalm was once a town of the mining people who had become rich and arrogant through ore mining. They had a GKS that they bowled with. The 'chairman' warned them, but they dig a tunnel and continue bowling there. There is a thunderstorm that collapsed the tunnel and drowned GKS with miners. The GKS is now in the Black Lake. Variant D (Sarntheim): Similar to variant B. Nine cones, two balls, a dragon as treasure guard. Variant E: Similar to variant B. A cloudburst spills the tunnel. The miners' spirits can be heard bowling on the eve of the Assumption of Mary . Variant F (Signat): Similar to variant B. The miners go under because they bowle on Assumption of Mary or instead of going to church, bowling. Variant G : There was once a castle on the Villanderer Alm. The castle woman sends the nanny to fetch the men to dinner. The girl is carrying the child when it meets the men bowling. When she calls them to eat, one of the men cuts off the child's head and they go on bowling with it. There is a big row and everything sinks. Children can only get out of one hole in the mountain. In the hole there is a lake in which the castle treasure is located, guarded by a dog.
D206a Moose behind the Rittner Horn , South Tyrol. There was once a lock here. A man dreams that he can magically lift the nine cones and the gold ball (and other treasures) that have often been heard bowling on high women's days. The man goes for it and actually finds the magic castle. A beautiful virgin is waiting for him at the gate and wants to let him in when he gets the key from a hut. There he finds a black dog on the key. He returns to the woman without the key. She asks him what he wants. He then says, the ropes? Hanging over the gate. Then the woman begins to complain, it thunders and the lock and woman have disappeared. Had he wanted the woman, all treasures would have been his.
D207 Pitschefört Plain on a mountain behind St. Magdalena, Villnöss , South Tyrol. Giants, all of them headless except for one with three heads, were wealthy and had, in addition to white sheep, a GKS that they often played with so that it could be heard from afar. Since the giants disappeared, the GKS has been buried deep in the mountain.
D208 Lusenegg Castle near Laion , South Tyrol. A GKS is buried in the basement of Lusenegg.
D209 Kofel, also Schlossberg, the Kalvarienberg near Castelrotto , South Tyrol. Variant A: On the mountain there is a level, shady place under the catchment, which is called the bowling alley . Nine golden cones and two silver balls are buried on this. If you go up to the Kofel at midnight, you can often see the old knights bowling in the bowling alley. Option B: When it was the Kofel no Calvary, the Knights spirits bowled at certain holy times, especially in the Quatembernächten , with nine golden cone and two silver balls. A man visits them and is used by the ghosts as a bowling jack. Until one of the knights knocks over all the pins with one throw. Then everything dissolves into thin air and the man wakes up bathed in sweat under his blanket at home.
D210 Burg Schenkenberg (Burgstall) between Völs and Ums, South Tyrol. Variant A: A GKS is buried in the cellar vaults. Variant B: A boy enters the castle and meets the spirits of the knights while bowling with the GKS. A beautiful virgin with golden hair tells him three times that he should come with her, she wants to show him a treasure that should be his. The boy is afraid, when a ghost throws all the nines, and with a loud whistle everything dissolves into thin air. The next morning the boy wakes up in the meadow in front of the castle.
D211 Zwingenstein Castle (Burgrest) on Renon near Unterinn, South Tyrol. Variant A : At the ruins you can sometimes see a young lady who goes crazy. She speaks to a shepherdess and leads her into a subterranean passage in which boys with silver cones and gold balls are bowling. The woman allows her to take some of the treasures, but the shepherdess gets scared and runs away. Variant B : The shepherdess wants to redeem the young lady and goes into the underground passage, but when she feels a worm (lindworm?) On her for the third time, she runs away and lets the view of the treasures go. The young lady complains that she will have to wait another hundred years before she can be redeemed.
D212 Völseck Castle (Burgrest), also Velseck, near Tiers . There is a GKS under the castle that could never be found.
D213 Neuhaus Castle (ruin), also Maultasch Castle, near Terlan , South Tyrol. Variant A : An old woman hides in the ruin at midnight. Giants step into the courtyard with the GKS and start bowling so that it can be heard from afar. They discover the woman, but before they can do anything to her, it strikes one o'clock and the ghost disappears. She was saved by the consecrated thing she carried with her. Variant B : The hunter of the Maultasch (a princess) stole her GKS. Since then he has been cursed to be the bowling boy of the ghosts of the old Counts of Tyrol who bowled at night with the GKS in the castle courtyard. He can only be redeemed every hundred years. An old egg woman met him on such a day. The ten eggs in her basket suddenly became black coals. The ghost told her to throw something sacred at it, but she didn't have anything suitable. So the coals turned back into eggs instead of the golden cones and balls; and the spirit remained unredeemed. Variant C: Under the castle are five cones and a ball made of gold, which an unfaithful servant of the Maultasch buried there. Sometimes ghosts bowl with it, especially on quarter nights, so that it reverberates far and wide. The treasure has blossomed many times, but has never been raised.
D214 Hocheppan Castle (ruin) near Missian , South Tyrol. Shepherd boys enter the castle's underground passage in the evening and find a GKS. When they take it with them, they hear the walls crack and the ground shake. Terrified, they drop the GKS, but can't find the exit. If they had kept the GKS, nothing would have happened to them. So they have to wait until the next morning. The GKS has since disappeared.
D215 Kegelberg (mountain) near Deutschnofen , South Tyrol. On the Kegelberg in Eggental the salty people with golden balls pushed for golden cones so that it echoed from far away. But the Saligen always hid it in the mountain in good time, where it is still today when the boys from Nova Ponente set out to watch them play.
D216 Pretzenberg Castle near Welschnofen , South Tyrol. In the cellar vaults in the rock lie nine cones and a ball made of gold. A servant digs for it and only finds a basket of aspen leaves . A maid discovers the leaves and puts some of them in a sack. Instead, there is gold in the sack on the surface. Both learn that they could have turned the leaves into gold with something consecrated, but the leaves could no longer be found.
D217 mine (closed) Knappenstube behind the Geplänk-Alm at Latemar , South Tyrol. Variant A : Once upon a time miners mined for gold in the mountain and got rich. They afforded a GKS and bowled with it, even at Christian times, and seduced the people to play and dance. A thunderstorm came and swept everyone away. All gold in the mountain has since been blinded and only magicians and dwarves can still see it. Variant B (harrowing): A GKS is hidden in the tunnel that can be lifted on the right night. On St. John's Night (June 24th to 25th) a vein of gold that runs down from the mine into the valley shines very brightly. Variant C (Tiers): In the mountain, the dwarves guard a lot of gold and precious stones. The entrance to the mine is brightly lit on St. Two farmers find the GKS in the tunnel, which is guarded by two black dogs. Then a thunderstorm breaks out and the farmers flee. Outside the moon awaits them on a quiet night. Variant D (Deutschnofen): Two farmers find the GKS in the tunnel on St. John's Eve, which is guarded by large dogs. Eerie rumble drives the two men out of the cave. They then have a high fever for three days.
D218 Castelfeder Castle (ruin) near Montan , South Tyrol. Variant A : A pagan family once lived in the castle and owned a GKS. A shepherd boy finds one of the cones near the ruins with a note on it that says: “Nine steps against the Vill is nine times as much.” He rushes to another shepherd to show him the find. But when he gets to him, he has nothing left in his hand. Variant B : A magician was on the mountain at midnight. When he speaks a magic formula, the spirit of the castle comes and directs him from his place, otherwise it would fare badly, because the treasure must not be raised by Christians, since it comes from pagans. The wizard hesitates when he gets three black, poisonous blisters on his forehead, from which he dies painfully three days later. Variant C : There is a GKS in the ruin. A man meets the spirit of the castle there and has to say: nine pins and nine balls. Variant D : A farmer meets the castle spirit, who shows up again after a hundred years together with the GKS. The man can take the GKS with him, but he shouldn't take it off until he's home. On the way home it becomes more and more difficult for him. (He puts it down?) Then he disappears with the sack in which the GKS is.
D219 Mine in Fersental , perhaps the mine 'Grua va Hardömbl' (closed) near Palai in Fersental / Palù del Fersina , Trentino. A man meets a miner who tells him he knows where in the valley the miners' GKS is buried. He would show him when he put aside all that was consecrated. The man didn't go with that.
D220 Specker / Speccheri (place) near Brandtal / Vallarsa, Trentino ( approximate location ). 45.765 11.130277777778Variant A: There was once a gold mine in Vallarsa. The gold foundries in nearby Specker were so rich that they poured themselves golden boccia or bowling balls. As they were playing with it in a meadow, a red rider came and fell into the river. They rushed to his aid but couldn't find him because it was the devil who had taken their bullets and hid them under a boulder. It would take three men to work three days without a break and endure horrific hauntings to lift it. Variant B: Similar to variant A, only that the gold founders are miners and the boccia game is a GKS.
Austria
D301 Gebhardsberg near Bregenz , Vorarlberg. Variant A Hohenbregenz Castle (Burgrest): In the Thirty Years War , the Swedes conquer Bregenz through treason. The traitor's salary is the GKS, which was buried in a swamp on the Gebhardsberg by the Counts of Bregenz . Even after his death, the traitor is still looking for the GKS today. Variant B Gebhardsberg: A bowling game made of golden cones and silver balls is buried in the mountain. Variant C Pfannenberg ruin : When the castle was once besieged, the people of the castle buried their GKS nearby. Peasants raised the treasure with shovels and rosaries, but when one of them broke the silence, it slipped from their hands and fell back into the hole that turned into a small lake, at the bottom of which the GKS is still lying today, without you would have ever found it again.
D302 Knieburg Castle (Burgstall) between Dornbirn and Schwarzach , Vorarlberg. The last knights, robber barons, bury their GKS on the run from attacking enemies. The GKS is to be found again for the blessing of the poor people of hazel trees . Underground passage from the castle to Schwarzach.
D303 Berg near Ebnit , Vorarlberg. The GKS of the Counts of Hohenems was in the mountain . In 1809 the French came to lift it. A pastor named Drexel hid the GKS in his parsonage and hid in the Drexel cave in the mountain. Since then, the GKS has been back in Ebnit, but has been lost.
D304 Former Hörnlingen Castle under the pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary on the Liebfrauenberg in Rankweil , Vorarlberg. The former knights bowled with the GKS. The GKS is buried in the old vault under today's nave.
D305 Siegberg Castle (ruins) near Göfis , Vorarlberg. A hard-hearted knight rejects a poor man who asks to be admitted at night. Thereupon he curses the knight who goes down with his GKS. The GKS can be lifted on All Souls' Day (November 2nd) and Christmas Eve (December 24th). Anyone looking for it outside of this time will be harmed (rash, epilepsy, mental illness). Underground passage to another castle.
D306 Wiesberg Castle near Tobadill , Tyrol. Variant A: At the time of the Christian mission, a robber baron lived in the castle who owned a game of silver skittles and a gold ball. He denied the missionaries entry into the valley and went bowling mainly on their high holidays. That is why he is forever enchanted, bowling with his companions at dawn. Variant B: In the castle, a boy encounters bowlers dressed in black who use him as a bowling jack. As a reward, he receives the wooden bowling game, which he does not accept. He turns to leave when there is screaming behind his back. He turns around and sees the game of skittles now made of gold, but it dissolves in front of him. Another boy takes a cone for his sister. At home it's made of gold.
D307 Kronburg (ruin) near Zams , Tyrol. Variant A: Every fifty years ghosts bowl loudly with silver cones and golden balls. People who once dug for the GKS came across a chest that only contained a square stone. Variant B: If you find the GKS that is hidden under the castle, you redeem the count who haunts there.
D308 Burg Alt-Starkenberg (Burgrest) near Tarrenz , Tyrol. An underground passage leads from the castle down to the Salvesenbach. There is a GKS in the corridor that was never found. You can hear ghosts bowling with it.
D309 Thaurer Schloss (ruin) near Thaur , Tyrol. In the underground passages under the castle lie nine cones and a ball of gold that have never been found.
D310 mine (closed) above Greifenburg , Carinthia. Vicious miners bowling with their GKS in the mine tunnel and go down with it. The GKS is then in a lake. Later, a dwarf borrowed three black oxen from the herdsman to lift the GKS at the new moon. When the ox is returned at dawn, says the dwarf, there is gold on the horns, the shepherd's reward. The shepherd only sees yellow clay and wipes off the horns. When the sun rises, he notices traces of gold on the horns. He looks for what has been wiped off, no longer finds it and remains poor.
D310a Kaltsee, Seetal, near Gnoppnitz Valley, Carinthia. There is a golden bowling game in the lake.
D311 Kronsegg Castle (Burgstall) near Schiltern ( Krems ), Lower Austria. The last knight is a good-for-nothing and skittles with his GKS. While fleeing from the attacking Swedes, he sank nine cones and balls in the castle fountain and escaped through an underground passage, but never returned.
D312 Schonenburg Castle (Burgstall) near Schönberg am Kamp , Lower Austria. Variant A: The last knight is a no-brainer and skittles with his GKS. He sinks nine pins and three balls in the castle well while fleeing from the attacking enemy. Variant B: The castle was destroyed by the Swedes. Three men find the underground passage into the ruin to lift GKS, which belonged to a hard-hearted knight. The knight's spirit allows them to take from the treasure if they are silent about it. Out of greed, however, they come back armed with the villagers to pick up everything. The earth opens up in the corridor and swallows it under the knight's laughter.
D313 Untersberg (mountain of the Berchtesgaden Alps) near Salzburg , Salzburg / Germany, Bavaria. A dwarf brings a young goatherd up into the mountain to help twelve knight spirits play bowling as a bowling boy. That's how it happens. At the end, the shepherd wants a cone as a souvenir. A knight hands him the king of the game. The shepherd takes the heavy cone and falls asleep. When he wakes up, the cone has turned to gold. He goes home to his village and learns that he was gone not for a day but for five years.
D314 Alpl (Berg), corridor Zur Schreibstatt, between Mühlen and Friesach , Carinthia / Styria. The devil demands a predatory host to play skittles. The host's commitment is his soul. You bowl with nine golden pins and a silver ball. The devil loses and angrily kicks his hoof onto the field before leaving. You can still see the print today.
D315 Feigenstein (mountain), belonging to Wanning (mountain), near Nassereith , Tyrol ( approximate location ). 47.325833333333 10.855277777778In the hollow fig stone is a GKS that gigantic people play with. In the past, you often heard the beautiful sound. The people are very poor, they only own a couple of potato fields.
D316 Hemmaberg near Globasnitz , Carinthia ( Lage ). 46.552838888889 14.667605555556On the southern slope of the Hemmaberg, a shepherd saw a silver bowling alley with nine pins and three gold balls. When he tried to dig up the treasure at night, he couldn't find it.
Switzerland
D401 Mörsburg Castle near Winterthur , Zurich. A young woman sits in the underground passage with the GKS at her feet, a black dog as guardian. She is waiting for a young man who will release her with three kisses and bring her home with the GKS.
D402 Burg Sternegg (Burgstall) on the Dietschwiler Höchi, Schönau side near Dietschwil , St. Gallen. There is a GKS in the deep vault of the castle, but all excavations have so far been in vain.
D403 Martinsbrücke over the Goldach near St. Gallen , St. Gallen. Variant A: In a cave near the bridge there is a GKS that has to be guarded by the devil. Variant B: Many went to get it, no one came back. A woman who crossed the bridge at night was followed by a black cat, and another by a black man.
D403a Castle ruins on Aetschberg near Abtwil , St. Gallen. The knights of the castle had a GKS and gladly invited to bowling. A young man falls in love with the knight's daughter there. They both become a couple, but their love doesn't last. The youth then takes the GKS and buries it in an unknown location.
D403b Rappenstein Castle (Burgrest) on the Martinstobel near St. Gallen, St. Gallen. The GKS is in an iron box, black dog as a guard, liftable in Andrew's Day (November 30) or on Christmas Eve (December 24), however, this requires the protection of Consecrated.
D404 Hohensax Castle (ruins) near Sennwald , Sax district, St. Gallen. The knights of Hohensax bowling with their GKS, which is part of the family treasure and must not be pledged. The castellan is their bowling jack. He steals the GKS and is executed for it. Since then he has guarded it as a ghost. The GKS is in an underground chamber and has never been found.
D404a Forstegg Castle (ruins) near Sennwald , Salez district, St. Gallen. The last knight is a good-for-nothing and skittles with his GKS. He sinks a golden ball in the “gallows well” of the castle in front of his creditors. Dwarves play the GKS in the hill on Sundays. They cause thunder during thunderstorms. The secret passage to the dwarfs cave has been buried. The GKS could never be found.
D405 Alt-Wädenswil Castle (ruins) near Wädenswil , Zurich. The GKS is under the ruin, but could never be found.
D406 Neu-Habsburg Castle (ruins) near Meggen , Lucerne. Bowling knights, sometimes friendly, sometimes unfriendly. One of them shows the GKS to a girl. Young men who then want to lift the GKS with something consecrated cannot find it.
D407 (castle ruins) Landenberg in Sarnen , Obwalden. There is a GKS in the mound.
D407a at Bauma near the Landenberg ruins in Sarnen , Obwalden. In the former marsh Münzach, on which the village Bauma stands today, blue lights wandered around, which belonged to the souls of the knights of Alt-Landenberg. During the holy nights they turned back into knights during the witching hour, bowling over the swamp with a GKS.
F408? Gros-Mont plateau (Great Mung) south of Charmey , Freiburg. Alpine pasture called "le jeu de quilles" = skittles.
D409 Rappenstein Castle (ruins) near Untervaz , Graubünden. Field name bim goldiga Chegelspiel near the castle.
D410 Ober-Ruchenberg Castle (ruins) near Trimmis , Graubünden. Variant A: The castle woman helped the elf queen in the mountains with the birth. As a thank you, she received a GKS with which she could summon the good mountain spirits. A great-grandson, however, repeatedly misused the GKS in order to obtain new treasures, until nine giants answered his call and caused him, his men and the castle to perish with great noise. Only his daughter was spared and now lives with the elves. Every hundred years she returns to the upper world, in bridal jewelry and white robe, and waits for a young man to redeem her and regain the GKS. Variant B: A farmer follows noise and finds three knight spirits in the ruins who are bowling with the GKS. When he throws the ball himself and the pins fall over, GKS and Ritter disappear with a roar. Variant C: Detailed version of variant B. At night a farmer follows the noise and light that penetrates from the ruin. He watches three knights bowling with the GKS. But they never hit all nine cones. When he thinks she is asleep, the farmer takes the ball and throws all nines. "All nines!" It escapes him. The knightly spirits wake up and there is a clap of thunder and knights like GKS sink in front of the farmer, who is angry because, if he had kept his mouth shut, he would have redeemed the spirits and won the GKS for himself.
D411 Felsberg Castle (Burgstall) in Felsberg near Chur , Graubünden. Knights once bowled with their GKS. Now the GKS is under Burgplatz in an iron box with a black poodle as a guard.
D412 Nieder-Juval Castle (Burgrest) near Rothenbrunnen , Graubünden. Nightly bowling of the knight spirits with a GKS. Bright light. If you approach, the ghost disappears.
D413 Burg Lunat (Burgstall) near Vaz / Obervaz , district Lain, Graubünden. In the subterranean passage between the castles Lunat and Nivaigl (Obvervaz, district Nivaigl) sits a beautiful young lady at whose feet a GKS lies, guarded by a black dog. The young lady is waiting for a pure youth (the dog only lets one step close), who releases her with three kisses and brings her home together with the GKS.
D414 Wartau (castle ruins) near Gretschins, St. Gallen ( Lage ). 47.098611111111 9.4905555555556Knights used to live in the castle who oppressed the peasants. They had a GKS that they also bowled with. When the castle went up in flames, they sank it in the castle well.
D415 Attinghausen (Attinghausen castle ruins ), Uri ( Lage ). 46.862222222222 8.6297222222222In the ruin there is a GKS with two golden balls that the devil is guarding. It can only be lifted on Palm Sunday during the Passion.
D416 Rosstock (mountain) near Bürgeln, Uri ( approximate location ). 46.875277777778 8.6633333333333The mountain hides a GKS in a cave that can only be seen on Palm Sunday or every hundred years in mid-August at dawn. Variant A: A shepherd boy sees the treasure and hurries home to get a basket. When he comes back, it's gone. Variant B: The shepherd boy is tending the flock in the hail when the GKS appears. But it was the devil who wanted to try him to violate his duty. Had he got the cones, he couldn't have kept them. Variant C: Three always played with the GKS. They used to be seen on Good Friday during the Passion. When one climbed the mountain and grabbed the GKS, he lost his footing and fell into the depths. Since then, neither the three nor the GKS have been seen.
D417 Bristen (mountain) near Bristen, Uri ( location ). 46.759444444444 8.6802777777778Variant A: A shepherd found the GKS while looking for a cow. First he looked after the lost cow, when he came back the GKS was gone. Option B: Every year in mid-August at dawn three come and play with the GKS. Anyone who throws something consecrated at the GKS will own it. Variant C: There is also a GKS on the slope of the Bristenstock, on the Langlaui. Anyone from the area who has been herding the white Trychel goat for seven (or nine) years will lead them to the GKS in the seventh (or ninth) year. Until today it has never happened.
D418 House on a hill in the Chur valley area, 15 minutes' walk from the center of Chur, Graubünden ( approximate location ). 46.8575 9.5222222222222There was a GKS under the old house, guarded by a black poodle. However, the GKS was raised by the owner of the hill.
D419 Tiergarten hill near Mels , St. Gallen ( Lage ). 47.063369444444 9.3942555555556There is a GKS under the mound.
D420 Boxloo, Canton St. Gallen. There is a GKS in the area.
Spain
E501 Cueva de Cobrante (cave) near San Miguel, Cantabria ( approximate location ). 43.052777777778 -4.04Inside the cave is a golden bed and a golden bowling alley that the Moors played on.
Czech Republic
D601 Castle Koberstein / Koberštejn (castle ruins) on the castle hill / Zámecká hora near the river Černá Opavica between Zuckmantel / Zlaté Hory , Olomoucký kraj region and Würbenthal / Vrbno , Moravskoslezský kraj region ( location ). 50.203591666667 17.326147222222After a clap of thunder around noon, a golden bowling alley appears in a meadow under the castle, with gray skittles and a queen made of blue lead. Three wights (dwarfs?) Then push pins and reward the one who sets them up. After a while they disappear with cone and track in an air vortex.
D602 Jüttelberg / Jitrovník (mountain) near Schluckenau / Šluknov , Ústecký kraj region ( location ). 51.002763888889 14.509166666667Variant A: Once upon a time, man-eating giants lived on the mountain, bowling with skittles and balls made of gold on a bowling alley to pass the time. When they insulted people and blasphemed God, a fiery ball shot out of the moon, which caused the giants and their bowling game to sink into the depths of the mountain, where the bowling game still lies today. Variant B: Similar to variant A, only that November 1st (All Saints' Day) is mentioned as the day of the disaster.
literature
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Johann Nepomuk von Alpenburg: German alpine legends. Vienna 1861.
Bernhard Baader : Folk tales from the state of Baden and the neighboring areas. Karlsruhe 1851.
Bernhard Baader: Newly collected folk tales from the state of Baden and the neighboring areas. Karlsruhe 1859.
Ludwig Bechstein : German book of legends. Meersburg and Leipzig 1930.
Anton Birlinger : Legends, fairy tales, popular superstition. Freiburg im Breisgau 1861.
Adolf Ferdinand Dörler: Legends from Innsbruck's surroundings. Innsbruck 1895
Eugen Fehrle & Ernst Schrom: Legends from Germany. Vienna, Heidelberg 1953.
Hans Fink: Eisacktal sagas, customs and expressions. In: Schlern -schrift No. 164.In Innsbruck 1957.
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J. Frei / Gottfried Keßler: Golden skittles at Boxloh. In: Swiss Society for Folklore (Ed.): Archives suisses des traditions populaires, Volume 12. 1908, p. 51.
Rudolf von Freisauff: Salzburg folk tales. Vienna / Pest / Leipzig 1880.
Maria Gerstgrasser: legend, customs and stories in and around Naturns. Naturno 2003.
Helmut Gloger: sagas and legends about the village and Tettingen Castle. In: Festschrift and local chronicle on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary Dettingen – Wallhausen 730–1982. Dettingen – Wallhausen, 1982.
Georg Graber : Legends and fairy tales from Carinthia. Leykam Publishing House, 1935.
Theodor Lachmann: Überlinger legends and customs from Lake Constance. Reprint of the 1909 Konstanz edition by Georg Olms Verlag, 1979.
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Johann Baptist Leuthenmayr: Forst or St. Leonhard. Neuburg on the Danube 1881.
Meinrad Lienert : Swiss legends and heroic stories. Stuttgart 1915.
Alois Lütolf : sagas, customs and legends from the five towns of Lucern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug. Lucerne 1865.
Ernst Heinrich Meier : German legends, customs and traditions from Swabia. Stuttgart 1852.
Josef Müller : Legends from Uri. 3 vols. Basel 1926, 1929, 1945.
Friedrich Panzer : Bavarian legends and customs. 2 vols. Göttingen 1848 and 1855.
Franz Pehr: Carinthian legends. Klagenfurt 1913.
Leander Petzoldt (ed.) & Willi Mai (collector): Legends, fairy tales and tales from South Tyrol. Innsbruck 2002. Vol. II.
J. Rappold: Legends from Carinthia. Augsburg and Leipzig, 1887.
Rudolf Riedel: Legends and Stories of the District of Krems, Issue No. 8: Sunken Treasures. Krems 1954.
Egon Schwär: Legends in Oberried and its districts Hofsgrund, St. Wilhelm, Zastler and Weilersbach. 3. Edition. Freiburg Echo Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86028-199-4
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Carl Trog: Rheinlands Wunderhorn - sagas, stories and legends from the Rhine also schemes and tales from the old knight castles, monasteries and cities on the banks of the Rhine and the Rhine region from the sources to the mouth of the river. Alfred Silbermann publishing house, Essen - Leipzig 1890.
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Individual evidence
↑ Unknown author: The Görwihler Bub am Iburgfelsen. Private website , manuel-maier.de accessed on November 23, 2004, no longer available. This private page reproduced the saga in the narrative style of a saga collector, but without citing the source.
↑ Schnezler II, p. 244, Das goldene Kegelspiel restricted preview in the Google book search
↑ Unknown author: The Kegelgeist on the Schloßberg. Private page , ess-schmidt.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 23, 2008, no longer available. This private page reproduced the saga in the narrative style of a saga collector, but without citing the source. As well as a reference to this legend in Sepp, p. 51@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ess-schmidt.de
^ Egon Schwär: Legends in Oberried and its districts Hofsgrund, St. Wilhelm, Zastler and Weilersbach. 3. Edition. Freiburg Echo Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86028-199-4 , p. 89
↑ Unknown author. Local authority Weisbach, Museum Haus Wysburg and excavation site of the castle, wysburg.de accessed on October 22, 2009. This page reproduces the saga in the narrative style of a collector, but without citing the source (Dr. Adler?).
↑ Unknown author: Die Zwerge im Lüningsberg near Aerzen. Home and beautification association Aerzen e. V., heimatverein-aerzen.de accessed on October 22, 2009. This version does not seem to come from a collector of sagas, but at least it comes from a local resident.
↑ private side, jeanmichel.guyon.free.fr called on July 4, 2008: "A La Chatelaine, juste au-dessus d'Arbois, sur le plateau rocheux, une légende raconte que dans les ruines du château est un jeu de enfoui quilles en or. »
↑ histoire-locale.chez-alice.fr accessed on July 4, 2008: “Une légende rapporte qu'un souterrain contenant un jeu de quilles en or traverse le village. Pour l'heure, les quilles n'ont pas été retrouvées et on n'est pas sûr que le souterrain existe ... »
↑ ariego.free.fr accessed on March 27, 2009: “[…] le château de Montségu, aujourd'hui propriété privée. A subject, une légende court dans le pays: le seigneur du lieu, dit-elle, était tellement riche qu'il possédait un jeu de quilles en or! Ces quilles pouvaient bien être des lingots d'or coniques et pointus que le seigneur aurait ramené des Amériques. "
↑ ot-palluau.fr accessed on July 4, 2008: “L'une d'entre elle est une légende selon laquelle, un jeu de quilles en Or est enfui dans les douves du chateau à '3 vols de chapons gras de la fenêtre de la chambre de Madame '»
↑ leschivre.free.fr. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; retrieved on March 27, 2009 : “Catherine de Bourbon […] elle avait 14 ans. […] Le sépulcre, […] fut violé pendant la révolution et les bijoux qu'il contenait, notamment, un petit jeu de quilles en or massif, furent enlevés. Seuls, les ossements, qui ne présentaient point d'intérêt pour les voleurs, demeurèrent sur place. […] A l'époque de la revolution, des mains sacrilèges le fouillèrent pour y chercher un trésor imaginaire. Un fermier de la Barre l'aurait également profané depuis et y aurait trouvé un jeu de quilles en or dont il se serait emparé, l'aurait vendu et serait devenu très riche. "
↑ palicia.blogspot.com accessed on September 23, 2009: “Dans le bois de Claval, se dressent encore les ruines du château de Montjournal (propriété privée). [...] On raconte qu'un jeu de quilles en or y est caché ... »
↑ lefouilleur.com ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed on September 23, 2009: “Il paraitrai que le trésor de la Guyonnière ne soit pas totalement découvert. De nombreuses personnes disent qu'il ya un jeu de quilles en or qui est encore caché. »@1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lefouilleur.com
^ Thierry Le Roux: Les cavernes de charente-maritime. cavernes-saintonge.info (PDF; 5.29 MB) accessed on February 18, 2010: "Bien d'autres histoires pourraient être évoquées: trésors (Trou du Jeu de Quilles en Or près de Saint-Porchaire) […]."
↑ Unknown author: The wicked miners of Obernberg. Project page for teacher training in elementary and elementary schools in the district of Innsbruck Land and Schulsprengels Sterzing, bildungsserver.at ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 22, 2009. This retelling of an unknown legend comes from local students at the elementary school in Matrei am Brenner as part of the educational project.@1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildungsserver.at
^ Hugo Neugebauer: Tyrolean legend motifs. In: Der Schlern - magazine for local history and folklore. June 1951, p. 250 f. Say.at , accessed on October 22, 2009. Reference to GKS-Sage with reference to Zingerle-1891 p. 286, but cannot be found there.
↑ Unknown author: The golden bowling game. Private page , btinternet.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on November 23, 2004, no longer available. This page reproduced the saga in the narrative style of a saga collector, but without citing the source.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.btinternet.com
↑ Alpenburg-1857, p. 329 Treasures and Treasure Lifter, limited preview in the Google book search
↑ Unknown author. Project LAP (ICE-Vienna, association for the promotion of media activities in school and outside of school), kidsweb.at accessed on November 23, 2004, no longer available. Perhaps the reproduction of the story of an unnamed collector.
↑ Private website , geocaching.com accessed on October 23, 2009. On this private website, the legend is retold based on an unknown original.
↑ Unknown author: Rappenstein Castle - historical significance, popular belief. City of St. Gallen, stadt.sg.ch accessed on July 5, 2008, no longer available.
