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In memory of the poet and natural scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a Goethe monument was erected on the Glauberg plateau at the beginning of the 19th century. This is what the Friedberg professor Johann Philipp Dieffenbach wrote in his essay about “The Glauburg” in 1844: “Dhe older pastor Römheld zu Glauberg [1780 to 1814 Glauberg pastor], a thoughtful lover of art and nature had a simple table built from a large stone slab in a place facing south and surrounded by a few moss benches. (…) Some twenty years ago a great festival took place here in honor of the immortal poet Göthe, in which a large company of young, happy people took part.The table still stands today, somewhat forgotten and sometimes misused as a “Celtic sacrificial stone” for fruits and nuts, near the Enzheim gate on the Glauberg plateau in the direction of Goethe's birthplace Frankfurt.