Bad Abbach Eiermühle Löwendenkmal

The Löwendenkmal stands beside the B16 near Bad Abbach in Lower Bavaria. It marks the spot where the Teufelsfelsen was blasted in 1793 to build a safer road above the Danube. The monument sits nine metres above the modern carriageway on the steep riverbank close to the Eiermühle. The story behind it is one of repeated flood damage and ice jams that closed the old road in 1784, 1786 and 1789. After Kurfürst Karl Theodor inspected the site in 1789, work began under Adrian von Riedl. The blast of April 1793 removed the main rock, and a decade later Joseph August von Toerring paid for the stone tablet and two lions to honour the elector. Visitors find a ten-metre green-sandstone slab carved with Latin and German dedications. Flanking it are two five-metre-long stone lions on three-metre pedestals, one gazing at the inscription, the other at the river. A second plaque nearby remembers Adrian von Riedl. The cliff itself is a recognised geotope, offering a quiet view over the Danube valley.