Der Sommerstein

Dᴇʀ Sᴏᴍᴍᴇʀ𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟 ɪɴ Sᴀᴀʟғᴇʟᴅ - Garnsdorf district - forest floor at the beginning of the Arnsgereuther valley southwest of the village, northwest of the federal road 281, on the steep slope of the → Abtsberg The only in the first half of the The 19th century name probably comes up back a large boulder that collapsed around 1830 during the construction of the chaussee, which is still located directly on the federal highway 281. It has been inscribed since 1932 "Sommerstein 1832". Valentin Hopf writes about the "summer stone" in the Saalfelder Kreisblatt on June 22, 1932: Its storage location is the boundary mark between summer and winter landscapes. If the hiker comes from the mountains, it is not uncommon to find that the winter landscape ends here and the lower-lying terrain gives the impression of summer. On the Sommerstein was the exchange of carriages and sledges in the 19th century, after the expansion of the art road (Chaussee) from Saalfeld to Hoheneiche via Garnsdorf was completed with the last section Garnsdorf-Arnsgereuth in 1837. The new road replaced the previous route of the old trade route from Saalfeld via the Steiger and Eyba to Hoheneiche. The field name was transferred to the "Naturheilbad Waldsanatorium Sommerstein" opened by Ferdinand Liskow (1853-1925) in 1888 (Bad Sommerstein), which was built for the treatment of patients with gastric, intestinal and liver diseases in the middle of a small park below the parcel. The sanatorium went before World War One, the buildings were used from around 1965 to around 1985 as the outstation of the Saalfeld Agricola Hospital. Source: Gerhard Werner, The Saalfeld field name book, 1995