Maleficent stones (Hohenfreyberg)
The maleficent stones around Hohenfreyberg Castle mark a judicial district .
history
In the Treaty of Tannheim between Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and Bishop Marquard of Augsburg on July 26, 1581, the high authorities in and around Hohenfreyberg Castle were regulated. Thereafter, the respective owner of the Austrian lien in Hohenfreyberg was granted the right by the Augsburg bishopric to try all crimes - including those worthy of death - that occurred within a district marked out around the castle. At the same time, the bishopric undertook that offenders may be transferred unhindered to a Hohenfreybergisches neck court through the area of the bishopric .
The treaty came into force on July 26, 1582 after the milestones were erected.
description
The stones are made of a reddish limestone and are approximately square (30 × 30 cm), the hewn part is about 60 cm high. The unhewn part (in the ground) thickens like a tuber.
- The so-called maleficent stones bear the year "1582" on one side.
- On the side facing Hohenfreyberg Castle, the letters "ER" (Archduke's Empire) are carved with a horizontal, three-part coat of arms for Austria.
- On the other side are the letters "SA" (Augsburg Abbey) above a vertically divided coat of arms.
- On the fourth page, each landmark is given a serial number.
Locations
Ten of the original eleven stones are still preserved. The historical locations cited here are part of the Tannheim Treaty.
- Stone no. 1: towards the rising of the suns (east) on the common plaz between the two castles high Freyberg and Eisenberg on the Mittelen Weg.
This stone was no longer available in 1932. Whereabouts unknown. - Stone no. 2: mitland on the röttin (cleared field)
The stone is probably still in its original location.
The maleficent stone bears the numbers on the side where the year is carved: 3 and 1 and in the middle below it a 2. Their meaning is not known, perhaps they mark the direction of the marking. - Stone no. 3: around noon (south) like the Kreßbeer Paum (cherry tree) so under the large Paumgarten next to the road.
At this stone, which probably still stands in the original place, a driveway led past from the south, up into the Depression between the two castles, where stone no. 1 stood on the "common" square.
- Stone no. 4: from a painted crayfish pum to a red fir marked with a mark.
The stone is probably in its original location. - Stone no. 5: from this red spruce down by a long fenced forchin (pine)
This stone was put down during forest work and later kept in a garden. In the meantime it is back at the point shown in the plan. The original place is no longer known exactly, but it should have been about 40 meters southwest. - Stone no. 6: on that hag at aim marked apples Paum so inhalb deß hags and an ortmarkh is
a "Ortmark" is a corner point. So the stone is still in its original place. - Stone no. 7: towards Seggweeg at the gate and the farweg so from Schweingg Inn's Schloß geet
At this stone, a path from the two castles to the Eisenberg district of Schweingg apparently led past. The stone was no longer known in 1932. In 1990 it was broken in two and found under a nearby hay barn, where the parts were used as beam storage. They were salvaged by the Eisenberg Castle Association and put back together again by a stonemason. In 1991 the stone was raised again at the point shown. It should be roughly the original location. - Stone no. 8: in the Ymbster Anger near Pirnbaum im Haag this is also an eggmarkht.
The "Imst" used to be a large farm that originally belonged to the Augsburg bishopric and was transferred to Hohenfreyberg before 1500. It must have gone off soon after. The stone is probably still in its original place. It was painted with red crosses while surveying.
The stone has a special feature that the coat of arms is impressed on the edge in a baroque style. So it should have been renewed once. - Stone No. 9: over the ridge up by ainer two-fold white firs
Up until 1990 the stone had sloped very much. It was set up again by the forest owner about 50 meters southwest of the presumably original location. - Stone No. 10: right up on the Haag, as it half divides the high Freyberg and Eisenberg Irer güeter, And is also an Eggmarch
As the map shows, the stone is probably still in its original place. - Stone no. 11: right from the first eggmarkh with the cover up to Freyberg Castle, as Freyberg and Eisenberg schaidet again
This stone was only found again in 2005 during forest work, after its whereabouts had been unknown for decades. Its current location probably corresponds to the original place.
Coordinates
The coordinates of the individual maleficent stones:
- (NS = 47.613511 | EW = 10.589344) ⊙
- (NS = 47.613056 | EW = 10.588889) ⊙
- (NS = 47.612481 | EW = 10.588066) ⊙
- (NS = 47.612858 | EW = 10.586904) ⊙
- (NS = 47.613989 | EW = 10.585556) ⊙
- (NS = 47.614722 | EW = 10.583056) ⊙
- (NS = 47.615278 | EW = 10.585556) ⊙
- (NS = 47.615833 | EW = 10.587547) ⊙
- (NS = 47.614722 | EW = 10.589167) ⊙
- (NS = 47.614444 | EW = 10.591111) ⊙
- (NS = 47.613889 | EW = 10.590000) ⊙
literature
- Bertold Pölcher: Description of the so-called maleficent stones around the Hohenfreyberg ruins. 1992. (unpublished documentation)
- Johann Baptist Doser, Ludwig Holzner: The ruins Eisenberg and Hohenfreyberg near Füssen in the Bavarian Allgäu. In: Alt-Füssen. 8th year No. 3-10 (1932).
Individual evidence
- ^ Copy in the Pfronten parish archive; quoted here from Johann Baptist Doser, Ludwig Holzner: The ruins of Eisenberg and Hohenfreyberg near Füssen in the Bavarian Allgäu. In: Alt-Füssen. 8th year No. 8 (1932).
- ↑ Website of the Castle Association Eisenberg e. V.
- ^ Report in: Allgäuer Zeitung. 9/10 July 2005.
Map with all coordinates: 