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Severozápad
Karlovarský kraj

Granatbrunnen Spring on Tillenberg

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    January 7, 2019

    The garnet fountain is a source on the Tillenberg. Legend has it that grenades used to be found here - red semi-precious stones. Today, the source is located about 5 m from the state border on the German side.

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      August 12, 2022

      At the Granatbrunnen, a spring on the Tillenberg, the red semi-precious stone is said to have been mined in the past.

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        September 14, 2025

        The Granatbrunnen, a spring on the Tillenberg

        Today, it is located about 5 meters from the state border on the German side.

        According to legend, so-called garnets – red semiprecious stones – were once found here:
        "On the Tillenberg there was a deep well. There were once so many garnets in it that a cart would have been needed to transport them away. A stonemason from Eger and his servant had spent years of painstaking work, mining them from the Tillenberg on Sundays and holidays, collecting and hiding them here in the deep well so that no one could see or steal them. The stonemason, however, was a stingy man who gave nothing to anyone and, in his cowardly greed for gain, completely neglected his religious duties. When he could no longer find any garnets, he sent his servant to Eger, despite it being Easter, to fetch a cart so he could transport the treasure home. Meanwhile, he himself guarded and arranged his garnets. Then he heard the Easter bells ringing for church services from the town, and immediately a thunderstorm approached, which The entire Tillenberg was enveloped in black storm clouds. Vast clouds of smoke billowed from the depths of the well, which collapsed, burying the stonemason and his treasures beneath the rubble. There, in the buried garnet well, he must remain until the Tillenberg runs out of garnets; only then will he resurface.

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