Dead man (border point)
The "Dead Man" is a former border point, which is 308 m above sea level. NN in a wooded mountain height of the Elmshausen district (Ludwigshöhe ( 312 m above sea level )) between Hochstädten (Bensheim) and Elmshausen (Lautertal) . This point is located directly on a main hiking trail that runs in the direction of Schönberg (Bensheim) . In the immediate vicinity of this landmark (striking elongated stone) there is a small refuge for hikers and a downhill trail .
Tell about the dead man
According to the legend, Nikolaus Glock and his wife went into the forest to collect wood between the county of Erbach-Schönberg and the county of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1555 . The couple got into an argument and the wife killed her husband with her ax, so that the man's head lay on the Erbach-Schönberger district and the other part of his body on the Hessisch-Darmstadt district. Since the Imperial Court of Justice did not know in which county the woman was to be executed, she always had to switch between the Erbach-Schönberger dungeon and the Hessian one. At some point the back and forth became too expensive and the murderer was helped to escape from the dungeon. It is said that you can still hear them moaning and lamenting at the “dead man” at night.
literature
- Richard Matthes: Legends from the Bergstrasse district. Bensheim 1952, (2nd edition 1972).
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 28.9 ″ E