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Base data
Land of the Federal Republic:Bavaria
Governmental district:Upper Bavaria
District:Trusting stone
Municipality:City Traunreut
Postal zip code:83368
Preselection:08669
Geographical situation:47"° 59 ' n. Br.12"° 33 ' L.
Kfz characteristic:TS

Stone to the Traun is a former municipality in the district trusting stone. It lies to the B304 between trusting stone and old person market (A.D. Alz) to the Traun. Pfarrort of the former municipality is pc. Georgen.

History

Stone to the Traun had a great importance of beginning of history. Probably the large caves in that were already looked for approx. 40 m high senkrechten Nagelfluhwand of the Celts as place of refuge. The settlement was not discovered yet, but the large grave field within the range of the avenue to the chapel of the holy Johannes of Nepomuk gives references over it.

Then an aristocracy sex made itself, developed these caves use it to the largest cave castle of Germany and established both at the foot and at the top margin of the wall a strongly fastened castle, called lock stone and high lock in the Middle Ages. The lock stone was mentioned 1135 for the first time documentary and was since that 13. Century until 1633 in the possession of the family

1818 developed in the course of the reforms in Bavaria the municipality stone.

The lock was over many centuries of the bread givers for many humans in the environment. 1928 had to turn over, over with the wood sales from the debts rauszukommen the count von Arco - tin mountain in the economic crisis the enormous St.Georgi - forest. It had to sell nevertheless, to that forest changed into government property and was immediately again aufgeforstet.

Only approx. 10 years later the third realm built into this young forest then for flier resounding, poison gas factories and ammunition shelters. The area remained for that by the air raids of the Americans spared and in such a way became the intact buildings right after 2. World war of the many refugees of homeland inhabits and for trades used. This "„Muna "“is the core of the today's city Traunreut and in the meantime the largest city in the district trusting stone.

The municipality stone was eingemeindet 1978 with pc. Georgen after Traunreut.

Objects of interest

The cave castle lock stone is the most important cave castle of Germany. The castle plant consists of three parts:

  • The high lock at that nearly 50 m steeply dropping Nagelfluhwand.
  • The cave castle under it, which creates a connection hidden in the rock in the trusting valley.
  • The lock in stone, today a private High School accommodates.

Meetings

Every four and/or three years take place on the high lock the "“Steiner of plays"”, a free light theatre with the castle as window blind for this particularly a piece are written that by laymen, amateurs and professional actors with musical Untermalung one specifies. Overview of the last pieces:

  • The devil pact (2000)
  • Seeing Irish Republican Army or Heinz of stone travel in's morning country (2004)

For 2007 the next piece is planned.

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