Siebenstein (Tennenlohe Forest)
The Siebenstein , also called Siebenerstein , is a historic stone cross in the non-parish area of Forst Tennenlohe in the Central Franconian district of Erlangen-Höchstadt .
Location
The stone cross is in the Siebenstein forest department named after him north of the so-called Wolfsfelder Weg in the middle of the Tennenloher Forest nature reserve in the Sebalder Reichswald . The location of the cross is inside the enclosure for the Przewalski horses and is currently not open to the public.
description
The approximately 90 cm high, equally wide and around 35 cm thick Siebenstein consists of the castle sandstone found in the area . There used to be two curbstones in front of the cross .
history
The meaning of the stone cross, which was probably erected in the 16th or 17th century, is unknown. Possibly it is a border marker , a weather or votive cross that was erected by workers from the numerous stone quarries in the Reichswald at that time.
The current location of the stone cross does not correspond to the original location of the installation. At first it stood in the military training area, which was built in 1935 and later expanded, where it was damaged by soldiers exercising. To save the cross from destruction, it was moved to the forest adventure center in Tennenlohe in November 1978 . After the troops withdrew in 1993 and the military use of the site ended, the Siebenstein was set up at its current location.
See also
literature
- Franz Zettler: The stone cross . The land monuments of the district of Erlangen. In: Mitteilungs-Blätter of the German Stone Cross Research . No. 1/2 , 1942, p. 53 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Horneber: Landmarks and memorial stones in the Sebalder Reichswald . In: Heimatverein Erlangen und Umgebung e. V. (Hrsg.): Erlanger building blocks for Franconian homeland research . No. 27 , 1980, ISSN 0421-3769 , pp. 192 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '15.7 " N , 11 ° 3' 9.5" E