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Waßner Cross Memorial

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Waßner Cross Memorial

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  • Location: Wattenheim, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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    March 1, 2016

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    Here on July 30, 1866, the body of the then 66-year-old Jakob Wassner from Wattenheim was found. After buying 2 young pigs, which he carried in a sack, he was struck by a storm and killed by lightning.
    (Small stone monuments around the Donnersberg, Nordpfälzer Geschichtsverein, Kuntz / Rasche).
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    July 30, 2023

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    Below the wide forest gravel path and not far from the motorway there is a memorial cross "for the 66-year-old linen weaver and church leader Jakob Waßner, who was found dead here on July 30, 1866 after being entered in the death register of the Catholic rectory in Wattenheim. On the front is a deeply carved cross with the letters J.W. carved in it."
    According to legend, J.W. was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm.
    Source (partially quoted verbatim): suehnekreuz.de/rhein/wattenheim.htm
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    July 31, 2022

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    J.Wasener would be struck by lightning here
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    Location: Wattenheim, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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