Ilsestein
The Ilsestein , also called Ilsenstein , is a granite rock formation in the Harz near the town of Ilsenburg in the Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
The Ilsenstein is located in the upper resin within the natural parks resin / Saxony-indication in the National Park resin , which is the boundary of the National Park along the directly east of the rock formation located forest road. Its 2.25 km (as the crow flies ) south-southwest of the core town of Ilsenburg at 473.2 m above sea level. The summit located on the NHN rises about 130 to 160 m above the Oker tributary Ilse, which flows directly to the west in a south-north direction . Topographic maps show that there is a fork in the river valley northeast below the rock formation at 315.5 m above sea level. NN and east of the Ilsestein next to the Ilsestein inn located point of the aforementioned forest path at 465.6 m above sea level. NN lies.
history
In the 11th century, there was also a small, Salier-era imperial castle of King Henry IV (1050 - 1106) on the Ilsestein . The castle team deployed on it consisted of Reich ministerials who supervised the royal estate in the Harz Forest and at the same time constantly plundered the goods belonging to the Ilsenburg monastery . The castle was destroyed at the end of 1105 by an anti-imperial opposition and on the orders of Pope Paschal II. Its location could be reconstructed through excavations between 1955 and 1962.
On the summit, Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1785-1854) had an iron cross erected on October 16, 1814, one year after the battle near Möckern on the first day of the Battle of Leipzig . It serves as a memory of his friends and acquaintances who died in the Wars of Liberation (1813–1815). On October 18, 1913, in the presence of Prince Christian-Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1864–1940), an additional memorial plaque explaining the origins of the iron cross from 1814 was unveiled.
There are several legends about the Ilsestein, which Heinrich Pröhle , for example, wrote down on paper. Otto Roquette wrote the verse epic “Herr Heinrich” about the most famous legend, namely that of Duke Heinrich, who was banned by Ilse in the rock kingdom for 3 years.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentions the "Ilsenstein" in the Walpurgis Night scene in Faust I and together with Heinrichshöhe and Schnorerklippen in Faust II .
Heinrich Heine describes in Die Harzreise how he climbs the "Ilsenstein".
An “Ilsenstein” is mentioned in the first act of Adelheid Wette's text book for the fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck .
Opportunities for viewing and hiking
From the summit of the Ilsestein, the view falls to the nearby Brocken , which rises roughly in the southwest, into the Ilsetal with its peripheral mountains and to the north to Ilsenburg and the Harz foreland .
The Gasthaus Ilsestein , which has been reopened since November 2016, is included as No. 30 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.
literature
- Jan Habermann: The Reichsburg Ilsestein in the Harz Mountains. Fortification and power symbol of the Salier period, Norderstedt 2018.
- Ernst Pörner , Hans Riefenstahl: The castle on the Ilsestein near Ilsenburg (Harz). Hüttenmuseum, Ilsenburg 1966.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
- ↑ Jan Habermann: The Reichsburg Ilsestein in the Harz. Fortifications and symbol of power during the Salian period . Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-6776-3 , pp. 23 - 72 .
- ↑ Jan Habermann: The Reichsburg Ilsestein in the Harz. Fortifications and symbol of power during the Salian period . Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-6776-3 , pp. 75-86 .
- ↑ Harzer hiking needle: stamp point 30 / Ilsestein , on harzer-wandernadel.de
Web links
- Ilsestein , in a reconstruction drawing of German castles , on burgrebaus.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 48 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 42 ″ E