Ardbinna-Stone in Huertgenwald-Gey

image author: Sascha Carlitz, Langerwehe

Near the village square in Gey stands a copy of the Ardbinna-Stone. The original stone, which was found in the year 1859, is situated in the Rhenish State Museum Bonn. Gey was part of the Ardennes area in Roman times. The Ardennes goddess Ardbinna accompanied safeguarding then the Roman Julius T. Aequalis through the mountain woods. The Roman dedicated this stone in her memory.

image author: Sascha Carlitz, Langerwehe

It inscription reads along the lines 'This stone was set by Julius T. Aequalis for the goddess Ardbinna. With that he fulfilled happily and suitably the made vow'. In the autumn of 2007 the Heimat-Wander- und Verkehrsverein Gey-Straß e.V. dedicated the stone to the so-called Ardbinna-hiking-Path. Walking along the hiking path one can discover numerous witnesses from the past of the villages Gey, Straß and Horm.