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Freischaren Fountain, Rinnthal

Freischaren Fountain, Rinnthal

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Freischaren Fountain, Rinnthal

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Location: Rinnthal, Südliche Weinstraße, Südpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1Fritz-Marc 🚴🥾🏊🌲

September 3, 2020

The fountain commemorates the last fight of the insurgent troops against the Prussians on June 17, 1849 near Rinnthal. It should also warn that freedom and democracy must be fought for again and again.

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Euphemia Anna 🌳

June 14, 2022

After the failure of the Frankfurt National Assembly, there were uprisings in the Palatinate against the Bavarian government in June 1849. These uprisings were bloodily suppressed after the Bavarian king asked the Prussians for arms. The fight in Rinnthal took place on June 17, 1849.

"The Baden-Palatinate uprising from May to June 1849 can be described as the radical phase of the bourgeois revolution of 1848."
Source: information board to the right of the fountain

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Roy

October 19, 2025

On June 12, 1849, Prussian divisions began their attack on the Palatinate, which had seceded from Bavaria on May 17, 1849. Near Rinnthal, where 12,000 Prussian soldiers faced approximately 2,000 Volkswehr and Freischaren on June 17, the advance of one division was at least temporarily halted. Immediately afterward, the remaining Palatinate Freischaren fled to Baden.
Eight fallen Freischaren were buried in the Annweiler cemetery on June 20, 1849, amid great public sympathy. For a long time, the victors did not allow any remembrance of the struggle for freedom. It was not until 1880, at the initiative of Annweiler citizens, that a memorial was erected in the cemetery. The memorial reads: "They too died for the fatherland." Only with this concession to the Prussian national spirit was it possible to overcome the resistance of the authorities nine years after the founding of the Empire. In 1969, a citizen of Rinnthal erected a memorial stone at the entrance to a private property. In 1982, the Freischarenbrunnen (Free Corps Fountain) was built next to the church, depicting a Prussian soldier and a guerrilla. Since 2019, there have been plaques explaining the historical context of the fountain and the memorial in the cemetery.

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Freischaren Fountain, Rinnthal

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