Stump Forest Court
| Stump Forest Court | |
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 Stump Forest Court |
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| Data | |
| place | Enkenbach-Alsenborn |
| Client | Alsenborn |
| Construction year | 1933 |
The Stumpfwaldgericht or regional court on the Stampe , later the Rügegericht Neun Stühle , is a court of law for the Counts of Leiningen in the northern Palatinate Forest . It is one of the three imperial regional courts in Wormsgau .
The place is 4 km northeast of Alsenborn . Allegedly there was a court or thing place here as early as the Germanic or even Celtic times . The area of the stump forest was called "Stamp" from the 8th to 13th centuries , later "Stampf" . In 1933 the Alsenborn community erected a memorial in the form of a ring made of nine small cuboid stones, the small chairs. One of the chairs each stands for the Neunmärker, the nine forest-authorized communities in the area. In the middle of the small chairs is the large chair, a piece of ashlar with the inscription “District Court of the Counts of Wormsgau and Dukes of Franconia 6. – 15. Century "carries.
literature
- Topographic map Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Hochspeyer
- Walter Eitelmann : Knight Stones in the Palatinate Forest. Palatinate Forest Association eV, Neustadt / Weinstr. 2005, ISBN 3-00-003544-3 .
- Adolph Köllner, History of the Dominion Kirchheim-Boland and Stauf: Edited from JM Kremer's and J. Andreä's manuscripts, reliable documents and other aids . Published by the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research, Wiesbaden 1854, pp. 252-254 digitized version (Google eBook)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '2.7 " N , 7 ° 57" 1.4 " E