Königsplatz (Saxon Switzerland)
| Koenigsplatz | ||
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 View of the Königsplatz, on the right the stone bench |
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| height | 436.5 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Elbe Sandstone Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 '31 " N , 14 ° 21' 44" E | |
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The Königsplatz near Hinterhermsdorf is a traditional and well-known vantage point in Saxon Switzerland .
location
Königsplatz is located in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the Saxon Switzerland National Park near its transition to the Bohemian Switzerland National Park . With a height of 436.5 m above sea level. NHN , the Königsplatz forms the highest elevation in the southern part of the Hinterhermsdorf district , which belongs to the large district town of Sebnitz . It is located in the sparsely populated area of the Upper Saxon Switzerland.
The Königsplatz is the southern end of a rocky ridge, which the Kirnitzsch , which is about 190 meters lower and deeply cut into its valley , in this section the border river to the Czech Republic , one to two kilometers away in a wide arc from Zadní Doubice (Hinterdaubitz) in the east past the upper lock in the southeast and Zadní Jetřichovice (Hinterdittersbach) in the south to the west at the lower lock.
The terrain descends in a steep step up to 150 meters deep into narrow, rocky side valleys of the Kirnitzsch: in the southeast into the Vordere Schweineloch, in the southwest into Hell, in the northwest into the Meilerschluchten. A few meters south of the Königsplatz are the free-standing climbing rocks Eisenspitze , Dreibrüderstein and Unterer Dreibrüderstein , which are part of the Hinterhermsdorf area in the Saxon Switzerland climbing area.
reachability
Königsplatz can be reached via the hiking trail marked with a red line on foot within 45 minutes from the center of Hinterhermsdorf or within half an hour from the parking lot at the Buchenparkhalle on the outskirts. Königsplatz itself is not located directly on this hiking trail, but on a connecting path (Königsplatzweg) between it and the Zollstraße (Böhmerstraße) from Hinterhermsdorf via Zadní Jetřichovice (Hinterdittersbach) to Jetřichovice (Dittersbach ), which runs not far west in the north-south direction in the narrow rocky bottom Hell ). From the east, Königsplatz can also be reached via the hiking trail marked with a red line from the upper lock on the Kirnitzsch through the Holl tunnel. Around 300 meters to the east there is another vantage point, the Grünstelligen, which, however, is less well known and mainly allows a view to the east.
Infrastructure
On Königsplatz itself there is a wide bench carved into the rock and covered by a mighty sandstone block with a currently (as of 2018) restricted view due to vegetation - probably the actual Königsplatz. In the back, steps lead to a viewing platform about four meters higher on a sandstone cliff, from which the best view is offered at this viewing point. It is around three square meters in size, surrounded by a railing and equipped with a wooden bench and two viewing boards. There is also a wooden refuge at Königsplatz, and there is also a board with historical information and a signpost.
view
The Königsplatz viewpoint offers one of the most closed forest images in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. It is remarkable that only two settlements can be seen: the Sebnitz district of Lichtenhain 9 kilometers to the west and the Czech town of Kamenický Šenov (Steinschönau) 16 kilometers to the south-east. With the exception of these, there is a closed mountain and forest landscape with North Bohemian basalt cones and the rocks of the Elbe sandstone . The distant view extends over around 220 degrees from east-south-east to north-west. You can see many peaks of the Lusatian Mountains , Bohemian Switzerland and Saxon Switzerland. These include the Lausche in the Zittau Mountains , the Klíč (Kleis), the Studenec (Kaltenberg), the Růžovský vrch (Rosenberg), the Děčínský Sněžník (High Snow Mountain), the Great Winterberg , the Lilienstein and the Pohlshörner.
In the distance, the Buková hora television tower in the Fourteen Mountains is about 25 kilometers away . You can also see Milešovka , 50 kilometers southwest , the highest mountain in the Bohemian Central Uplands known in German as Milleschauer or Donnersberg . The Raumberg is particularly prominent from Königsplatz due to its short distance . The view to the north towards Hinterhermsdorf and the Weifberg , on the other hand, is blocked by nearby rocks - some of them a few meters higher than Königsplatz - and above all by trees.
history
The viewpoint owes its name to the Saxon King Friedrich August II. (1797–1854), who is said to have liked to linger there. The stone bench also dates from the 19th century. There are three rectangular recesses in the sandstone on the boulder that covers it. Signs were once attached there. Among other things, it read:
"Man walks on the ruins of dark, pre-worldly times, / Perhaps a titan wrestled with the almighty Zeus. / It wants to prepare the god's downfall in the battle for heaven: / See the horribly clear evidence on the broken rock."
The lookout point was opened up by Carl Christian Eduard Voigt, who was Hinterhermsdorf's district forester from 1834 to 1845 and is also named as such on the altar stone . He also made the Holl tunnel, the green digits and the Wolfsschlucht accessible through hiking trails. In doing so, he created an important prerequisite for tourism. The year of development, 1836, can be found carved into a sandstone rock on the way to Königsplatz near the Holl tunnel.
In the middle of the 19th century, the lithographer Carl Wilhelm Arldt and the photographer Hermann Krone left behind early images of the Königsplatz, which was already known at that time, and of the view it offered there .
The wooden Friedrich August Tower was inaugurated on May 22, 1879, about 40 meters north of Königsplatz. At the suggestion of head forester Hermann Schlegel, the Hinterhermsdorf section of the mountain association for Saxon Switzerland had it built. It was 14 meters high and offered a panoramic view, also of the northern Hinterhermsdorf. Due to dilapidation, the tower was torn down again in 1902. In any case, further areas of the ridge north of Königsplatz were opened up around 1900, as evidenced by stairs carved into the rock and rebated joists of bridges.
Web links
- Photos from Königsplatz and the view on wanderpfade.de
- Panorama photo of the view from Königsplatz on panorama-photo.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ State enterprise Sachsenforst, National Park Administration Saxon Switzerland: Hinterhermsdorfer area. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
- ↑ wanderpfade.de: Königsplatz. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
- ↑ wandern-saechsische-schweiz.de: Information board Königsplatz. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
- ↑ Christian Maaz: The notch in the riser Kirnitzschklamm. In: The messenger woman. Bulletin of the Heimatverein Hinterhermsdorf. Issue 3/2001. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
- ↑ Gustav Täubert: oldest, most loyal guide through Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland: with brief consideration of the immediate surroundings of Dresden and part of the Bohemian Central Uplands and Ore Mountains. 27th edition, Albanus'sche Buchhandlung, Dresden 1898, p. 134 ( digital copy , PDF ).