Stumpfwald court

The Stumpfwaldgericht or Landgericht on the Stampe, later Rügegericht Neun Stühle, is a court site of the Counts of Leiningen in the northern Palatinate Forest. It is one of the three imperial land courts in the Wormsgau.

The site is located 4 km northeast of Alsenborn. Allegedly, there was already a court or thing site here during the Germanic or even Celtic period. The area of Stumpfwald was called "Stamp" from the 8th to the 13th century, later "Stampf". In 1933, the municipality of Alsenborn erected a monument in the form of a ring made of nine small cuboidal stones, the Kleinen Stühlen. Each of the chairs represents the Neunmärker, the nine forest-privileged communities in the vicinity. In the center of the Kleinen Stühle stands the Große Stuhl, a cuboid stone bearing the inscription "Landgericht der Grafen vom Wormsgau und Herzöge Franken 6.–15. Jahrhundert".

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