St. Nikolaus Bildstock—Wayside Shrine of St. Nicholas

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O HOLY
NICHOLAS PLEA FOR
US
BUILT BY
LEONARDO SCHREIBER
AT THE TIME FOREST
MASTER IN THE YEAR 1747

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This is the spot where the forest ranger escaped the lightning strike; it is across the road from the St. Nicholas shrine.

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Signpost pointing to the shrine from the Drei-Eichen forest car park.

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Heidelberg (near) Germany

Roman Catholic

The shrine was built in 1747 by a forest ranger who escaped a lightning strike after praying to St. Nicholas. He was also a city councilor and as a trained stone mason, he sculpted the St. Nicholas statue himself. It was gadly damaged about 1800 and was headless until 1950. A returning soldier from World War II had a new statue made out of gratitude for his surviving Russian captivity. Since then the statue is protected by a grid. The shrine in the forest south of Heidelberg. Flowers and candles decorate the shrine for St. Nicholas Day.