Red torture at Winkelhaid
The Rote Marter bei Winkelhaid is a wood marter in the municipality-free area of Winkelhaid in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria . It is also called the Red Märterla .
location
The wooden column is located about one kilometer southwest of Ungelstetten, a district of the Winkelhaid community . It stands there at a fork in the forest road . The forest road that passes by is part of the Fränkischer Dünenweg ( 
), Reichswaldweg ( 
), Feucht - Moritzberg ( 
) and the local circular trail Rundweg um Winkelhaid ( 
). The administration of the Bavarian State Forests put up an information board on site in 2017.
description
The column is made of oak wood, painted red-brown, about 1.7 meters high and 14 cm in diameter. The trunk is rectangular-spiral and in the upper part is the engraving of the year 1837. It is very similar to the nearby Totenmarter near Weißenbrunn . Their original use was possibly as a forest border pillar. In order to determine the condition of the devastated forests, forest management was carried out in the Nuremberg Reichswald in 1840/41 . In this context, forest district boundary stones (district boundary columns) were also created . The foresters used it to mark every single tree to prevent wood theft.
history
The hall monument was rebuilt and replaced in 1938 after it was badly damaged. At the suggestion of the stone cross research, it was renewed by Mr. Hermann Hesse from Nuremberg . The carved year 1873 probably also refers to a new production from that year. The origins go back much further. On a map from 1795 of Altdorf and his Hofmark , it is shown as a pyramid crowned by a cross. So what is here today is no longer the old column, but a copy. When a corpse was brought from Birnthon to the cemetery in Altdorf for burial, the schoolchildren went with them until the Red Torture.
Say
Several stories and legends go out over the column, some of which could contain truth.
- A butcher is said to have been murdered here in 1527. In the Nuremberg State Archives , a fascicle says that an incident could well be related to this matter.
- A paper servant from the paper mill in Burgthann is said to have been killed here. Therefore, for a while, the Burgthanners hung a wreath of flowers on the column every year.
Homicides and accidents at the nearby cold well :
- In 1567 a Georg Köber from Colmberg was wounded to the death by Hans von Ellwangen above the cold well, next to the road. He was buried in Altdorf, the perpetrator left on the run.
- In 1653 the landlord of Luderheim , Hans Stark, was killed by an oak tree that he wanted to fell here.
See also
Nearby is the small layer spring Kalter Brunnen and the carpenter's cross near Ungelstetten .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments in the Nuremberg Reichswald ( Bavarian State Forests ), accessed on June 3, 2018, from baysf.de.
- ↑ BayernAtlas, Lage Rote Marter (accessed on June 3, 2018).
- ^ Wittmann, Leonhard - Landmarks of the city and district of Nuremberg. In: The stone cross. 19th year 1963.
- ↑ BayernAtlas, historical map , accessed on June 3, 2018.
- ^ W. Hühnermann: Stone crosses and pillars of torture in the Nuremberg area. In: Deutsche Gaue. Volume 12, 1911.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '22 " N , 11 ° 17' 6.5" E