Wolfsstein (monument)

A wolf stone is a memorial . Since the 17th century, wolf stones have been erected in Germany in memory of special events with wolves such as hunts or the killing of a wolf . Most wolf stones bear an inscription with the name of the shooter, the date of the slaughter, often also a depiction of the hunted animal made by a sculptor , sometimes also a description of the accompanying circumstances. More recently, stones have also been set to commemorate the return of wolves.

The “last” wolves in various regions of Germany, which are covered with wolf monuments, wolf stones, wolf pillars or a wolf oak, were entered in a database by the Friends of Wildlife Wolves. There are currently about thirty entries.

date	State / Region	to the animal	Remarks	Illustration
April 20, 1618	Saxony / Friedewald, Weinböhla	Memory of a wolf hunt	Wolf column Friedewald with inscriptions on four sides of the base and the listing of all 36 people involved in the hunt
January 1724	Saxony-Anhalt / Harz / Schwiederschwende	The last wolf in the region	Wolf monument with the inscription: Under the government of Count Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla, the last wolf was shot here in January 1724.
November 20, 1738	Lower Saxony / Friesland / Oestringfelde → location	A lost wolf from the heather near Oestringfelde, shot by Anton Richter, son of the game shooter	The wolf gallows is a log with a spreading branch that is reminiscent of a wolf hung from a tree for inspection. It has been regularly renewed over the centuries, most recently in 1998.
November 18, 1805	Hesse / Schwalm-Eder district / Melsungen	The last wolf in Hessen	the Wolfsstein was set in 1806: shot by Rittmeister von Wolf. → location
January 27, 1845	Rhineland-Palatinate / Birkenfelder Land	The last wolf in the region	shot by the landowner Albert Lapointe, below the Nahe spring in the Kreuzwald district
March 10, 1847	Baden-Württemberg / Württemberg / Stromberg	The last wolf in the region, the animal was stuffed and the Natural History Museum Stuttgart issued	the Wolfstein was erected as a memorial in 1969
January 13, 1872	Lower Saxony / Becklinger Holz	The last wolf in Lower Saxony at the time	Forester H. Grünewald, the former body hunter of King George V of Hanover , shot the last wolf in Lower Saxony here
January 12, 1879	Rhineland-Palatinate / Hunsrück, Erbeskopf	The last wolf in the high forest of Rhineland-Palatinate	shot by forester Teusch von Deuselbach
March 4, 1914	Carinthia Austria / Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud
January 19, 1935	Westphalia / Ascheberg
August 27, 1948	Lower Saxony / Lichtenmoor, Ahlden (Eilte)	The first wolf in Germany after World War II	Stone with the inscription: On August 27, 1948, the strangler vom Lichtenmoor, a strong male wolf, was killed by farmer Hermann Gaatz from Eilte .
March 24, 1961	Brandenburg / Fläming, Mehlsdorf (today part of Ihlow ) near Dahme / Mark	The last wolf in Fläming	Boulder with the inscription: On March 24, 1961, a wolf was shot in the Mehlsdorfer Busch, 404 m from this stone in the direction of SSW .
2005	Brandenburg / Rochauer Heide → location		Wolfsstein: In memory of the return of wolves to Brandenburg
around 2010	Lower Saxony / Wendland / Liepe → location		Wolfsstein: The Wolf's Path from Moscow to the Ardennes

See also

• Wolves in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Circle of Friends of Wild Wolves: Historical Places
2. ↑ Circle of Friends of Wild Wolves: A wolf stone for Schleswig Holstein
3. ^ The work of the Circle of Friends of Wild Wolves
4. ↑ Heimatverein Schortens: Der Wolfsgalgen , accessed on October 31, 2013
5. ↑ ^{a b} Erik Zimmermann: The last wolf died on the inheritance head. Hunsrück-Zeitung of May 16, 2012, accessed on October 25, 2013