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Landkreis Bad Kreuznach

Tirolerstein Memorial

Landkreis Bad Kreuznach

Tirolerstein Memorial

Recommended by 40 hikers out of 45

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Nationalpark Hunsrück-Hochwald

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Location: Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Dollbergquelle Minibar – View of the Nonnweiler Dam loop from Otzenhausen

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2. View of Neuhütten – Tiroler Stein Memorial loop from Neuhütten

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3. Tiroler Stein Memorial – Tirolerstein Memorial loop from Neuhütten

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

September 13, 2019

The violent death of a Tyrolean trader in 1741 gave this memorial stone with a cross its name.

In winter 20/21 a tree fell on the previous cross due to a snow break. The Heimatverein set it up there together with the memorial stone in 1981 and at the same time created the small rest area with a table and benches.

This cross was made of wood that had been cut out of a power pole 40 years ago and then found its place on the ridge of the Dollberge at the site of the historic bloodshed.

After such a long time, the cross was not only damaged by the snow break, but also so rotten and weathered that a new one was made from the trunk of a Douglas fir and erected.

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

September 9, 2021

There are many stories about the criminal case.

Thereafter, the Tyrolean dealer Thomas was known throughout the Hochwald at that time. Before he set off from the Nahe region to the Kurtrier region in the cold and snowy January 1741 and wanted to visit markets in Züsch and Malborn, he stopped in Abentheuer at David Roth's inn, which was once in the Hujetsmühle directly on today's Landesstrasse 165 gave. There, according to tradition, the Tyrolean shopkeeper was seen counting money. He shared his bed in a straw bed with a servant, whose name is given in a treatise as Niklas von Hoppstädten.

On January 19th, Thomas left his quarters in Abentheuer. But he never made it to the villages in the high forest that were waiting for his arrival. A search party then made the gruesome discovery at the site of today's Tirolerstein. There the dead dealer lay in a pool of blood.

The murdered man's money had disappeared, only a few personal items were found in his clothes. The dealer was buried on February 23, 1741 in the Birkenfeld cemetery. His death went unpunished. The servant, who had spent the night with Thomas in Adventure, was strongly suspected of the act.

A few days after the Tyrolean had disappeared in an inn, he had noticed that he was carrying an unusually large amount of money for his circumstances. But there was no evidence of the murder.

The memory of the murder lived on afterwards. The Tirolerstein was first mentioned in writing in 1812.

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November 18, 2019

Memorial stone on a beautiful section of the Saar-Hunsrück trail.

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Tirolerstein Memorial

1. Dollbergquelle Minibar – View of the Nonnweiler Dam loop from Otzenhausen

2. View of Neuhütten – Tiroler Stein Memorial loop from Neuhütten

3. Tiroler Stein Memorial – Tirolerstein Memorial loop from Neuhütten

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