It is the year 1388: On May 28th, Lower Saxony fights against Lower Saxony in a fratricidal battle. Who should Winsen belong to? The Welf family or the Saxon dukes? Mortally wounded, one of the brothers loses his helmet and only then do the brothers recognize each other.
Today, on a field path between Südwinsen and Oldau, there are two rare memorials, the Prince's Stones. They tell of the murderous battle at Winsen. The Celle Duke Heinrich and his allies were victorious. The legend goes that two brothers, princes who had ever served in one of the armies, faced each other there.
The fight between the two brave knights was hard and they were ultimately mortally wounded. Only then did the brothers, who had once loved each other deeply, recognize each other. The dying men were found with their hands tightly clasped. The stones are said to have been placed in memory of this fratricidal battle. They only protrude slightly from the ground.
One stone shows a raised bear's claw, the other a lily carved into it.
These were the coats of arms of the Hoyear counts and the Brunswick city knights. In order to protect the two heavily weathered stones, four high stones were erected around them in the summer of 1906 at the instigation of the Winsen (Aller) War Society, which were connected by chains. The battlefield is still called "Dat Strietfeld" today.