Kapellenberg (Vogtland)
| Kapellenberg | ||
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 Kapellenberg near Schönberg |
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| height | 759 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Schönberg ; Vogtland , Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Elster Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 11 '17 " N , 12 ° 18' 2" E | |
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| Type | Ridges | |
| rock | granite | |
| Age of the rock | Carbon | |
| particularities | - highest mountain in the Elster Mountains (according to natural spatial classification) - Alter Wall ( KD ) - St. Ursula Chapel (ruin) - Kapellenbergturm ( observation tower ) |
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The Kapellenberg is 759 m above sea level. NHN high and distinctive mountain in the upper Vogtland in the Saxon Vogtland district . It belongs to the Elster Mountains and represents its highest elevation according to the natural spatial structure. Geologically, it is assigned to the Fichtel Mountains .
On the mountain are the prehistoric defense system Alter Wall, which is designated as a cultural monument , the ruins of the St. Ursula chapel, after which the mountain was named, with the small spring gold fountain next door, the Kapellenbergturm observation tower and a transmission tower .
geography
location
The Kapellenberg rises in the southernmost tip of the Vogtlandkreis near the Czech border. The Eger basin opens to the south, and the mountain rises above it by around 300 meters. At the southeastern foot of the mountain is the district of Schönberg , belonging to Bad Brambach , the southernmost village in Saxony .
Mountain height
The Kapellenberg is 765 m high; its height is given, among other things, as 759 m .
Towers
Surveying column
As part of the Royal Saxon Triangulation , the measurement of Saxony, the Kapellenberg was selected as a first-order benchmark in 1864. In 1865 a surveying column was erected on the summit and a wooden stand was built around it. The scaffolding has served hikers as a lookout point ever since.
Kapellenberg Tower
Old Kapellenberg tower
After the First World War there were plans for a lookout tower. Baroness Magyary-Reitzenstein made the land available. Master builder Ernst Schüller built the tower according to plans by architect Gustav Zimmermann, which was inaugurated on November 29, 1931. Until 1968 it could be used by hikers as a lookout tower. When the Prague Spring was crushed that year and the Warsaw Pact troops marched into Czechoslovakia , the tower was blocked in order to install a Soviet radar station there. Later the closure was justified with the alleged dilapidation of the tower. On November 7, 1982, the tower was blown up by the Oelsnitz civil defense .
New Kapellenberg tower
After the fall of the wall and the reunification of Germany , the aim was to rebuild the tower. The new lookout tower was designed according to the old plans, but has an enlarged floor plan and is slightly higher. The platform on the first floor was omitted. The new Kapellenberg tower was inaugurated on June 19, 1993. Since 2007 there have been an annual average of 4738 visitors. From its viewing platform you can see as far as the Kaiserwald , the Ore Mountains , the Upper Palatinate Forest and the Fichtel Mountains . A model of the observation tower can be seen in the miniature exhibition area Klein-Vogtland in Adorf.
Transmission tower
A few meters west-southwest of the observation tower is a small transmission tower .
Say
There are several legends about the Kapellenberg and the ruins - two of them are:
Three sisters Anna, Maria and Brunhilde, fell in love with the same knight at the same time. The knight only loved Brunhilde, but did not want to break the hearts of the other two sisters by choosing her sister and therefore went on a crusade . The sisters swore that they would become nuns and would never love a man. They wanted to found three chapels and, if one of them should die, a cloth would fly from the chapel into the valley to tell the other sisters about the death. However, should a sister ever love a man again, her chapel should collapse. Maria founded the chapel in Maria Kulm , Anna a chapel on the Grüneberg near Eger and Brunhilde the chapel on the Kapellenberg. After many years, Anna and Maria had died in the meantime, Brunhilde was still living in the chapel. An old pilgrim came with a cloak with the red paw cross of the Knights Templar on it and which was held together by a Saracen arrow , and drank at the well next to the chapel. Brunhilde recognized the pilgrim as the knight who had left her many years ago, and they fell in love. A storm came up and the earth shook and the next morning neither the nun nor the knight could be found. The chapel had crumbled and only an arrow and a cross were left in a stone next to the well. The stone can still be viewed.
The legend of the white woman at the drinking place is about a nun from the Kapellenberg who appears as a ghost on the adjacent high moor . She is said to have drowned her child there while she was alive and fled to her lover in the Luchsenburg .
literature
- Kapellenberg. In: The Upper Vogtland (= values of our homeland . Volume 26). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 176-180.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b Kapellenberg. Retrieved April 24, 2010 . , on kapellenberg.de
- ↑ On the Kapellenberg, 765 m , on books.google.de
- ↑ Number of visitors to the observation tower. Retrieved April 24, 2010 . , on kapellenberg.de
- ↑ Information about the stone from the legend in: Schönberg am Kapellenberg. Retrieved April 24, 2010 . , on suehnekreuz.de
- ↑ Photo of the inscription plaque for the legend of the white woman at the drinking place (Heimatschrift Unterm Kapellenberg ), on commons.wikimedia.org
Web links
- Kapellenberg , on kapellenberg.de