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Gerbersdell Ritter Stone

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Gerbersdell Ritter Stone

Recommended by 24 hikers out of 26

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord

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Location: Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Euphemia Anna 🌳

March 31, 2022

This is one of the more than 300 knight stones of the Palatinate Forest Association (PWV). The inscription on this knight stone includes the following story:
A little further down the Glasbach - on the large forest meadow in the Glastal - the "Glastalerhof" used to stand on the site of a former glassworks, "which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. Later, an agricultural property was built there. From 1784, a Johann Gerber lived on the farm. It was through him that the farm was given the name 'Gerbershütte'. Gerber lived in the Glastal until 1812 and then moved to Enkenbach. From then on, the farm remained uninhabited and fell into disrepair." Source (partly quoted verbatim):
Article by Klaus Frölich in the "PWV Magazine" (issue 1/2019, page 8).

This knight's stone with a small rock cave is listed in the "List of Knight's Stones" (on Wikipedia) as a "forgotten knight's stone" because it was forgotten in the standard work by Walter Eitelmann ("Knight's Stones in the Palatinate Forest"). de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Rittersteine

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MGBreva 🚶‍♂️🚴 🏍

June 26, 2022

Not easy to find. You have to go a bit off the path, up the slope.

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Veronika 2020

June 11, 2023

Without Komoot we would have missed it

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