Pfaffenstraße (historical overland connection)
The Pfaffenstraße is a historical overland connection in the southwestern Hunsrück in today's Rhineland-Palatinate . It can be traced between Züsch , Damflos , Neuhütten , Malborn , Börfink , Hilscheid , Morbach and Allenbach in the districts of Trier-Saarburg , Bernkastel-Wittlich and Birkenfeld .
It existed from the 15th to the 18th century and separated the areas of power of Kurtrier and the County of Sponheim . There were always border disputes, which were finally settled in the Dhroneck Treaty of 1758. Boundary stones were set up, some of which still exist today. Well-known boundary stones are: boundary stone No. 112 , boundary stone No. 135 , boundary stone No. 72 or the boundary stone in the Hanging Birch area . The border stones bear the Trier cross as a coat of arms and the checkered coat of arms of the Sponheimers .
The Pfaffenstrasse was part of the former trade route between the Grimburg near Hermeskeil and the Schmidtburg near Bundenbach .
Between the Sandkopf , the Ruppelstein and the Erbeskopf , the former Pfaffenstrasse is part of the Hunsrück cycle path . The Rhineland-Palatinate cycle route between Thiergarten and Börfink crosses the former Pfaffenstrasse.
literature
- Rolf Weber: Trier contra Spanheim: Territorial interventions and disputes about the diocese forest and "Pfaffenstraß" in the southern Hunsrück 1408–1796 , Print Concept, Treis-Karden, 2011. ISBN 978-3-9811909-2-2 .
- Strouvelle, C .: Local history: "Hange Berk" separates the Hochwald from the Idarwald . Deuselbach, 2013.
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