Einsiedlerstein (Bad Ischl)
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Einsiedlerstein (Hexenstein, Adlerstein), natural monument
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| location | Bad Ischl , Upper Austria | |
| Area / extent | 40-50 m² / 10 m | |
| Identifier | ND184 | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 42 ' N , 13 ° 37' O | |
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The Einsiedlerstein , also called Hexenstein or Adlerstein , is a rock on Siriuskogl in the town of Bad Ischl in the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria . The geotope is protected as a natural monument.
location
The Einsiedlerstein is located halfway up the east slope of the Siriuskogel, about 30 m above the valley floor, above the Salzkammergut tourism school near the hospital, a good 300 meters east of the Siriuskogelwarte . It is easily accessible from the road to the inn.
The stone formation lies under a large beech tree, covers 40–50 m² and is 4–5 meters high. It is split in two.
geology
The stone is not a rock , but a boulder of the Traungletscher , here in the Ischler basin erratic (unrelated) dolomite rock from the Inner Salzkammergut - similar to the Kreuzstein in the Traun. The block is likely to have been deposited here by the glacier, i.e. it marks a level of glaciation, and was probably already broken at that time.
The stone is designated as a natural monument ( Hexenstein or Einsiedlerstein am Siriuskogel , nd184 ).
Stone drawings
The stone has blue and red color drawings on a processed area, which are now almost completely faded. For a long time they were considered to be possibly very old petroglyphs , but were dated as modern based on excavations in the 1950s, during which a Maria-Theresien- Kreutzer from 1763 was found between the cut . They were painted with a brush. Its meaning is unknown.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Nature Conservation Book Upper Austria (online DORIS: Geographical Nature Conservation Information System GENISYS ).
- ↑ a b c d Werner Pichler: The rock paintings of the central and northern Salzkammergut- In: Jb. Oö. Mus.-Ver. Vol. 146/1 (2001), 3.4 Siriuskogel , p. 465 f, PDF on ZOBODAT there p. 11 f.
- ↑ cf. also Einsiedlerstein. A geocache by wuliwup , on geocaching.com (hidden May 4, 2011, accessed March 21, 2017) - with an overview of the history of the glacier.
- ↑ R. Strouhal: On the dating of the rock carvings on the Einsiedlerstein on Siriuskogel near Bad Ischl. In: O.Ö. Heimatblätter , Vol. 8, Heft 4, (1954), pp. 336–342.