Waystone

This article describes road stones that indicated road maintenance obligations. For waystone in the sense of a kilometer stone see there.

Historic road stones (when driving in the Plön district )

Explanation board for the path stones set up when driving in the Plön district

As a way stones are road markings referred to in earlier times - including hand and clamping services anzeigten who (mostly - were common farmers ) for the maintenance of a road or a road was responsible.

It was mostly about hewn natural stones , in which the corresponding information was hammered or painted with color and which were set up on the respective path.

Most of these path stones have disappeared today, but some of them have been preserved as cultural monuments.