Game stone (Deidesheim)

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The token on the district of the Palatinate country town Deidesheim is a Loogfels, which is classified as a cultural monument according to the monument protection law of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

It is located about 100 meters from the southern border of the Deidesheim city forest north of the Stabenberg in the Palatinate Forest . There are three dice and three vine knives on the game piece . It is not known when the symbols were embedded on the stone. There are several legends about this stone: One of them says that soldiers camped here during the Peasants' War and passed the time with dice games. According to another legend, two young men rolled the dice for a woman here. Since neither could lose, they would have killed each other. According to a third legend, three French soldiers are said to have deserted in Mußbach during the War of the Spanish Succession . But then they were caught. Because their captain felt sorry for them, they should have rolled the dice, and only the person who rolled the lowest number was executed. It is also conceivable that the symbols were not applied to the stone until the 1930s.

Web links

Commons : Game piece  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 26 (PDF; 5.1 MB; see: Loogfels am Stabenberg on Deidesheimer district ).
  2. ↑ a b Otto Gödel: A border crossing in the Deidesheim forest with pictures . In: Heimatfreunde Deidesheim und Umgebung (Hrsg.): Heimatblätter Deidesheim und Umgebung . No. 3 , 1972, p. 23 .
  3. ↑ a b Georg Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Bad Dürkheim, municipality of Haßloch, municipalities of Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-119-X , p. 192 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '11.22 "  N , 8 ° 8' 0.11"  E