Stickel (tomb)
A stickel is a special form of the death board that was placed on graves instead of a tombstone . This form probably originates from the time of the Reformation and used to be scattered all over the Electoral Palatinate , for example in Wald-Michelbach , Hammelbach , Otzberg , the Nassau Palatinate and the Rhenish Palatinate.
A stickel is a white painted board with the name of the deceased, the date of birth and death, today almost exclusively in the style of the Schlierbach carpenters with a painted flower pot with a growing, a blooming and a withering tulip and some aerial roots. Children's graves have sticks with a tulip- or lens-shaped end. The oldest known stickels showed diamond patterns, intertwined snowdrops or tulips in a different way, as every village carpenter had his own stencil and his own way of painting. As 21 parish places used to be buried in Schlierbach ( Ober-Laudenbach , Bonsweiher , Wald-Erlenbach , Mitlechtern , Lauten-Weschnitz , Igelsbach, Mittershausen, Scheuerberg , Linnenbach, Erlenbach , Seidenbach, Seidenbuch , Glattbach , Winkel , Schlierbach, Eulsbach , Ellenbach , Kolmbach , Breitenwiesen , Knoden and Schannenbach ) the diversity must have been great around 1800, which is what the oldest photographs by Friedrich Mößinger and Dr. Heinrich Winter from the 1920s and 1930s can still be traced.
Dr. Heinrich Winter had collected a dozen embroidery shapes from the southern Hessian region of the former Electoral Palatinate in his folklore museum in the Kurmainzer Amtshof in Heppenheim.