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Altleiningen

Site of the Former Village of Zwingweiler and Zwingerstein Judicial Stone

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Germany
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Palatinate Forest
Landkreis Bad Dürkheim
Altleiningen

Site of the Former Village of Zwingweiler and Zwingerstein Judicial Stone

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Site of the Former Village of Zwingweiler and Zwingerstein Judicial Stone

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  • Location: Altleiningen, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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    January 1, 2019

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    Here was the village Zwingweiler. Wealthy citizens who did not come from Höningen could once buy the right to be buried within the monastery after death. Monks received the funeral procession near Höningen and accompanied him to the monastery. It is reported that women from the village Zwingweiler have sweetened the waiting time for the monks😅. In order to stop this moral decay, the prior of the monastery ordered that no more houses could be built. If residents moved away no one was allowed to move into the houses. With that, the sinking of the village was inevitable ...
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    September 22, 2021

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    One of the Palatinate Forest Association's more than 300 knight's stones is located here and points to three things:
    1. on the disappeared village of Zwingweiler
    2. on the so-called …
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    February 27, 2021

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    It was first mentioned in a document in 1245.
    However, by order of the prior of the Höningen monastery, no new houses were allowed to be built. The old houses fell into disrepair or were demolished until only one house remained in 1514.
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    Location: Altleiningen, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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