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Prinzensteine Memorial

Prinzensteine Memorial

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Prinzensteine Memorial

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Location: Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Museum Courtyard Winsen (Luhe) – Prinzensteine Memorial loop from Oldau

11.9km

03:01

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2. Örtze Bridge – Aller Bridge loop from Winsen (Aller)

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3. Winsener Heath – Winsen (Aller) Museum Farm loop from Wolthausen

20.3km

05:07

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Danny & Kalle

April 10, 2017

On a dirt road between South Winsen and Oldau are the two rare signs of remembrance, the Prinzensteine.
They give news of the murderous battle of Winsen on May 28, 1388th In this fratricidal struggle, in which Lower Saxony were against Lower Saxony, should be decided whether our home should belong to the ancestral Guelph dynasty or the Saxon dukes.
It won the Celle Duke Henry and his allies. The popular legend goes that two brothers, princely princes, who ever served in one of the armies, would have faced each other there. Hard was the fight of the two brave knights who finally wounded themselves fatally. When one of them lost his helmet, the two brothers, who had once loved each other, recognized each other.
The dying were found with tightly entwined hands. To commemorate this brother fight you should have set the stones. They only slightly protrude from the earth. One stone shows a raised bear claw, the other a carved lily. These were the coats of arms of the Hoyear counts and the Brunswick city knight.
In order to protect the two heavily weathered stones, in the summer of 1906 four high stones were set around them, connected by chains, at the behest of the Winsen (Aller) War Organization.
The battlefield today is still called "dat Strietfeld".
Source (winsen-aller.de)

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Holger

April 27, 2020

This is exactly a story that keeps me going again and again.

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1. Museum Courtyard Winsen (Luhe) – Prinzensteine Memorial loop from Oldau

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