Stockheimer Warte

Stockheimer Warte
Creation time :	15th century
Castle type :	Altitude
Conservation status:	Masonry alone
Place:	Stockheim
Geographical location	50 ° 28 '43.2 "  N , 10 ° 16' 16.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '43.2 "  N , 10 ° 16' 16.3"  E
Height:	467  m above sea level NN

The Stockheimer Warte is the listed ruin of a guard tower at 467  m above sea level. NN high Turmberg near Stockheim in the Bavarian district of Rhön-Grabfeld .

Geographical location

The Stockheimer Warte stands on the summit of the Turmberg in the middle of a deciduous forest in the Stockheim district between Völkershausen in the north and Stockheim in the south. A steep slope descends to the north and west, the ridge to the south.

history

The tower dates from the 15th century.

The control room, like the other towers around Mellrichstadt and Ostheim , should be designed by Abbot Heinrich VI. , Prince Abbot of Fulda from 1315 to 1353, against Würzburg . But since there are still other towers, one assumes a transmission line. The towers are also said to have been connected to the Lichtenburg , but this can no longer be proven today.

description

The cut in the wall

The tower is a round tower with a height of about nine meters with a high entrance at a height of four to five meters. Like most of the other waiting towers in the Rhön, it was built from field stones. Its entrance does not face the village directly, but is arranged slightly offset following the flat slope. A setting of stones in the form of a staircase can still be guessed. In contrast to other towers in the area, the Stockheimer Warte has never been made accessible again or a staircase that may have existed previously has been removed. In the direction of Völkerhausen, a cut over a meter deep can be seen in the crown .

Legends about the Stockheimer Warte

The entry hole

There are many traditional folk goods about the tower on the mountain, such as the following two legends. It is noteworthy that the stories go through Willmarser citizens.

The dwarfs at the old control room

One day a woman from Willmars went up to the Stockheimer Warte to collect blueberries. She had taken her child who fell asleep. Because she hadn't filled her basket yet, she laid the sleeping child on the moss near the old tower and continued to pick berries. Suddenly she heard a terrible scream. In horror, she rushed to the tower and saw that her beautiful child had been exchanged for an ugly hide.

What should the poor mother do. She was left with nothing else but to take the ugly wimp home and look after it; for everyone knows that they treat dwarf children who have switched them the same way as the changeling is cared for. The hunchbacked dwarf lived a long time in Willmars. But despite good treatment, he remained a bow-legged cripple with a water head. Otherwise he was a good guy but never learned to speak properly. His name was Kober (Kobold?).

The "Wüsele Heer" at the Stockheimer Warte

In Willmars, a poor boy was studying with a shoemaker. And because he was as poor as a church mouse himself, the poor guy got more lashes than bread and he decided to kill himself. The shoemaker's boy crept to the Stockheimer Warte on a stormy night and climbed on an old tall fir tree. There he wanted to await starvation. Soon he regretted his decision, because the hunger was gnawing quite badly on his intestines. But for fear of the approaching witching hour and the knee strap of his master, he persevered.

The night grew darker and more eerie. The wind howled and the storm bent the trees. But other noises mingled with the roar. And when the poor boy looked down from his tree, he couldn't distinguish anything, but everyone was alive beneath him, as if the animals of the forest were fleeing. Then it seemed to him as if a large group of dogs were passing by. This was followed by the wild hunter on a huge white horse, then another crowd on horseback, men and women, everything mixed up. But they sang a lovely melody that made the boy's heart warm again. Then another herd of live horses trotted, wildly mixed up, and the end of the procession was formed by large, sharp dogs with bushy tails. And in between the howling of the wind, the raging of the storm, the barking of the dogs and the howling of the wild army. Over it the boy fell asleep in his tree. The next morning he was found by loggers and taken home. Since then he has held out with his shoemaker.

Web links

Commons : Stockheimer Warte  - collection of images

• Stockheimer Warte on warttürme.de
• Historical facts about this and other towers in the area

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
2. ↑ Stockheim monument list (see Stellberg ) on the Rhön-Grabfeld district website, accessed on December 20, 2011
3. ↑ From thin and thick towers on rhoenline.de, accessed on December 20, 2011
4. ↑ Stockheimer Warte on warttuerme.de. Retrieved April 19, 2019 . 
5. ^ R. Albert, 2002, pp. 361f
6. ^ R. Albert, 2002, p. 362