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It is a memorial to an unpunished murder that occurred deep in the forest around 285 years ago. A large wooden cross stands on the base of the so-called Tirolerstein, located in the heart of the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park and directly on the border between the Birkenfeld and Trier-Saarburg districts. A seating area in front of it invites you to take a break in the greenery. Since the former chapel in the nearby Neuhütten district of Muhl was converted into the National Park Church a few years ago, and since then, star hikes have been held there, the Tirolerstein has also been a place where believers occasionally hold services.

The Ruppelstein, also called Ruppenstein, is a 762.7 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Black Forest high forest (Hunsrück) in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Ruppelstein is northwest of Börfink. On its summit is a directional radio tower of the Bundeswehr.

A Tyrolean trader was murdered here ages ago and the cross is a reminder of this.

A memorial to a murdered Tyrolean trader.

The Dollberg is 695 m above sea level. NN is the highest mountain in Saarland and belongs to one of the prominent mountain ranges in the high forest. These stretch as ridges running from southwest to northeast from the Saar to the Rhine. The ridges consist of quartzite, which in turn has its origin in sandstone. This was finally transformed into quartzite by pressure and high temperatures during the folding of the mountains in the Devonian. Due to its hardness, it is comparatively weather-resistant. As the surrounding, softer rock was eroded, the quartzite deposits were preserved as ridges. A beautiful hiking destination and, as the highest "mountain" in Saarland, of course also a highlight here in the region. https://www.naturpark.org/natur-und-kultur/natur/geologie/geopunkte-devon-permokarbon-nonnweiler-und-zuesch/dollberg

Traveling to all 16 peaks in the federal states, it is very interesting to see how differently the states deal with their highest peaks. Perhaps the term "natural" fits quite well here

Here the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig leads a few kilometers wonderfully on a single trail over the Dollberge.

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.