Schwedenmarter mass direction
The Schwedenmarter Massenricht is today 150 m before the western end of Massenricht , a district of the Upper Palatinate town of Hirschau in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria . It is one of the few land monuments that survived the secularization of 1803 and the demolition of all signs of popular piety that was ordered at that time
The Schwedenmarter is 1.5 m high and made from one piece of Seugast sandstone . On the shaft it shows a raised high cross. The head protruding on three sides is relatively flat. On the eaves side are the letters LMM and below that the year 1632. A recess on the right edge of the shaft is likely to come from a sacrificial stock that was once attached.
There is no historically reliable explanation for its origin. The year 1632 gave rise to a popular legend about an atrocity during the Thirty Years' War . According to this, the Swedes are said to have tied a farmer by a ponytail and dragged him out of the village. Another farmer, who saw this, went to the soldiers with a Schmerkappl (that is a small leather cap without a shield) full of money and released him. In thanks for his liberation, the farmer is said to have built the Marterl.
The Schwedenmarter stood, flanked by two stone stumps, until 1967 outside the village at the “Micherlmarterl”. On the occasion of the village beautification, it was moved approx. 200 m to the outskirts.
literature
- Mathias Conrad: Sweden marter in mass direction. In: amberg information , May 1995, pp. 4-5.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 54.8 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 53.4 ″ E