The Golden Bowling Game (Schauenforst)
Long years ago, a brazen and godless knight lived in the Schauenforst Castle who oppressed and plagued the farmers, held up and robbed travelers and wanderers, and who was feared widely in the surrounding areas.
At one time, there had been a hard, long winter, and the sheer amount of snow that suddenly melted afterwards caused rivers and streams to burst their banks. In this manner, the terrible flooding destroyed the entire harvest of the poor farmers. However, the cruel and hardhearted lord of the castle still demanded the exact same crushing tribute at the appointed time. And even though he beheld the great destitution and suffering of the farmers, he did not soften to any pleas. Instead, he took the last cow and the last keepsakes from those who could not pay in full at the appointed time, and had everything carried up to his castle.
From this blood money, he commissioned a golden bowling set with silver balls in order to entertain himself after his feasts and drinking bouts. After this, the farmers became terribly enraged, and an old man, whose entire possessions had been taken by the hardhearted knight, spoke a terrible curse that the cruel knight should play with the golden pins until Judgment Day as punishment for his arrogance. And God, who hears the cries of the oppressed, fulfilled the old man’s curse and avenged the deprivation of the tormented farmers with severe punishment.
In this manner, it is possible to hear a strange, curious rolling and rumbling from the Schauenforst mountain during quiet, muggy nights. This noise comes from the cruel former lord of the castle, who must play until Judgment Day in the ruins of the fortress deep within the mountain, with the pins which he had, in his arrogance, made with the money extorted from his subjects in his arrogance.
Source: Greß - Holzlandsagen, p. 124f