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Diemer-Kreuz Memorial

Diemer-Kreuz Memorial

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Diemer-Kreuz Memorial

Recommended by 61 hikers out of 64

This Highlight is in a protected area

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

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Location: Ramsen, Donnersbergkreis, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Euphemia Anna 🌳

January 19, 2025

"[...] After the Second World War, the French occupiers cut down the most beautiful trees in the Stumpfwald. The 'Diemer Cross', a memorial stone for the forester Wilhelm Diemer, who died in 1959 and who played a significant role in the reforestation of the Stumpfwald, commemorates the necessary reforestation in the 1950s." Source (quoted verbatim): Article by Hermann Schäfer in "Die Rheinpfalz" (Unterhaardt edition) from August 22, 2023
rheinpfalz.de/lokal/gruenstadt_artikel,-die-geheimnisse-des-lauberhofs-_arid,5544809.html

This memorial stone is located at a very large intersection of 4 forestry roads. Hence my assumption: Here the word "cross" certainly does NOT mean a Christian symbol, but a (traffic) cross, i.e. an intersection.

The rest area at this point currently (as of Jan. 2025) looks very unkempt: The two benches are now quite dilapidated. And the two beautiful trees that once stood here were only recently felled (without being "cleaned up" afterwards).
ADDENDUM: I was informed by the Göllheim-Kerzenheim forestry district in February 2025 that this rest area would be more beautiful again will be prepared!

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Biitii 105 💗💜

August 4, 2019

Memorial stone "Diemer Cross", Carlsberg, 1959. There are two shady benches there, but despite intensive research I could not find any further details about it...
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Location: Ramsen, Donnersbergkreis, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Diemer-Kreuz Memorial

1. Lauberhof – Bockbach Spring loop from Hertlingshausen

2. Altleiningen Castle – Rahnenhof Trailhead Parking loop from Hertlingshausen

3. Neun Steine Stone Circle – Lauberhof loop from Wattenheim

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