The Legend of the Fuhrmannsberg Mountain

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The Fuhrmannsberg mountain extends opposite to the Brünnlheide and the Köpernik Mountain. On its ridge, the mighty Fuhrmannsstein (“Carter’s Rock”) rises into the air, which, when viewed from a distance, shows the figure of a wagon with horses and a carter, and which consists of a large number of impressive rocks, which are stacked on each other almost horizontally. Legend gives the following origin for its name:

Once, a farmer drove bread over the mountains during a time of war. On the above-mentioned mountain, he wanted to arrest the movement of his heavily-laden wagon. As he was lacking a stone, he used bread instead. But as he blasphemed against the gift of God in this manner, he was immediately turned into a rock formation alongside his wagon and his horses, as a warning for other humans. In memory of this occasion, this stone was named the Fuhrmannsstein.

Another narrative about this transformation doesn’t mention times of war. It says: A farmer, who had been in the mountains with his wagon, had wanted to arrest this movement. Thus, he took out the soft inner parts from the bread he had with him, and chocking the wagon with the crust. For this reason, he was petrified as punishment.

All narratives which I heard agree that a farmer had arrested the movement of a wagon with bread, and was turned into this rock for that reason.

(From oral tales of the rural population.)

Source: Kastner - Einiges über Sagen, namentlich Schlesiens, und insbesondere des Fürstenthums Neisse und des Gesenkes, p. 14f

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Geographic Coordinates: 50° 9' 10.83" N, 17° 6' 30.88" E