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| height | 400.9 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Saxon Switzerland | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '15 " N , 14 ° 12' 32" E | |
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| Type | Table Mountain | |
| rock | Sandstone | |
The Hohe Liebe (400.9 m) is a table mountain in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony .
location
The mountain is located in the eastern part of the Saxon Switzerland National Park . It is bordered to the north by the Kirnitzschtal and south by the Schrammstein group . In the east there is a small tributary to the Kirnitzsch in the Nassen Grund .
geology
The rather pointed or conical shape is atypical for table mountains in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The geological cause lies in a displacement by the Lausitzer Platte , so that an inclined plate rising from west to east with the peaks of the Gellchensteine (244 m) in the west over the Kleine Liebe (344 m) and the Hohe Liebe in the east results. The entire mountain is forested. The rows of rocky peaks with steep rock faces typical of the nearby table mountains are completely missing. The shape of the table mountain is only visible on the rocky summit.
Access
A marked hiking trail, later referred to as the Oberer Liebenweg and later the Butterweg , leads from Ostrau over the summit into the Kirnitzschtal valley. Other accesses are also possible from the Ostrauer Mühle or from hiking trails around the Schrammsteine or from the Nassen Grund. The summit is not densely wooded, so there is a good view of neighboring rock formations such as the Affensteinen and the Schrammsteinen with the Falkenstein .
Mountaineering memorial
On the summit of the Hohe Liebe there is a mountaineering memorial that commemorates mountaineers who fell in World War I. Of around 800 members of the Saxon Mountaineering Association (SBB), over 400 were killed in the First World War. Shortly after the end of the war, the SBB called a committee to erect a memorial for fallen mountaineers. The director was the well-known mountaineer and first climber of the attack on the locomotive , Albert Kunze , and the Dresden architect and mountaineer Oskar Pusch was involved as a consultant for the design . The draft for the design came from Franz Beyer , a Dresden sculptor and mountaineer. On October 17, 1920 the memorial was inaugurated with a speech by Rudolf Fehrmann .
The memorial made of sandstone bears two bronze plaques with the inscriptions “The fallen mountaineers 1914 to 1918” and “Our dead mountain friends”. In 1947 the inscription, which was felt to be no longer up-to-date at the time, was changed;
On Remembrance Sunday every year climbers meet at the memorial in memory of their dead. In the meantime, people no longer only think of fallen mountaineers, but of all mountaineers who have died or who have been killed in mountain accidents. The meeting on the Hohe Liebe is part of the traditional calendar of the mountaineering year in the climbing area Saxon Switzerland .
gallery
Summit region
Mountaineers Memorial
View from the summit to the Old and New Wildenstein , Hausberg and the Affensteinen with Bloßstock
View from the summit to the Great Cathedral with the Great Winterberg in the background
literature
- B. Pollmann, Kompass hiking guide Sächsische Schweiz / Elbe Sandstone Mountains - hiking guide: 49 tours with height profiles, KOMPASS maps, Innsbruck, 4th edition 2009, ISBN 978-3854919315
- F. Hasse, Rother hiking guide Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The most beautiful tours in Saxon Switzerland, Bergverlag Rother, 9th edition 2011, ISBN 978-3763341917
- R. Böhm, hiking map of Saxon Switzerland, Schrammsteine Affensteine 1: 10 000: Lichtenhainer Wasserfall - Großer Winterberg, Rolf Böhm Verlag, 6th edition 2009, ISBN 978-3910181014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gipfelbuch.de: The memorial stone on the Hohe Liebe ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 18, 2015
- ↑ Gipfelbuch.de: Traditional dates ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 18, 2015
