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Teufelstein Vilseck

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Teufelstein Vilseck

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Teufelstein Vilseck

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Location: Hahnbach, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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2. Devil's Rock – Teufelstein Vilseck loop from Ebersbach

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3. Devil's Rock – Teufelstein Vilseck loop from Schönlind

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Max Volker

November 19, 2020

There is also a corresponding legend about the Teufelstein:

“The devil had grown tired on a Walburgis night on the way to Blocksberg; so he sat down to rest on the flat roof of the church tower in Vilseck, which was just below him. From there the old rotten tower collapsed, and the Vilseckers had to build a new one, but they made it all the more pointed because the first one was blunt so that the devil couldn't rest on it again. So the Vilsecker tower became the most pointed in the whole of Upper Palatinate. That annoyed the devil, of course; he took a piece of rock on his head and carried it to Vilseck to smash the building. It was in the Vilseck forest where he saw an old woman, a shoemaker and at the same time Vilseckerbötin, on the way to Hahnbach. He asked them how far he still had to Vilseck, he had to throw in the tower there.

Then the old woman opened her Zegerer full of old shoes that were strewn together and replied: "So far that I have already closed all these shoes; I have just come from there." "I can't carry the stone that far any more," cried the devil in anger and threw the piece of rock down with such force that the splinters, weighting a hundred, are still scattered in the forest today. But the main stone, as big as a farmhouse, fell in the middle of the forest on a hill; it still shows the traces of the wearer, the brats and the head, the latter as big as a large water sheep. It is the devil stone. All around the ground sounds hollow; hence the legend that a village perished here.

In memory of an old woman cheating the devil, a wooden cross was erected on the hill, from which it bears the name Kreuzberg. Now there is a little church there. "

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Location: Hahnbach, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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