Gedenktafeln am Riesensteinweg, Commemorative plaques at Riesensteinweg, Heidelberg, Germany

Gedenktafeln am Riesensteinweg are two stone plaques set into the hillside retaining wall along the Riesensteinweg on the north slope of the Gaisberg. Each bears an engraved inscription from 1934; between the year 1934 a swastika was originally carved, but it was chiselled out in 1946.

The plaques were installed on August 3, 1934, by the Reich Labor Service and document President Hindenburg's death and labor initiatives of that period. They stand as testimony to a time when such monuments were erected to commemorate historical events.

The two plaques were set into the retaining wall by the Reich Labor Service on 3 August 1934, one day after Hindenburg's death. Between the digits of the year 1934 a swastika was originally carved; in 1946 it was chiselled out as a banned symbol. The hollow where it sat is still visible in the stone.

The plaques are located on Gaisberg Mountain below Johannes-Hoops-Weg and can be reached on foot via a forest pathway. Access is on narrow trails that run along the rock face and eventually fade into dense undergrowth.

Nearby sits an abandoned sandstone quarry where stone was extracted for centuries to build many Heidelberg structures. This quarry shows the close connection between the mountain's natural resources and the city's building history.