Kaiserkrone (mountain)
| Imperial Crown | ||
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 View of the Kaiserkrone from the Zirkelstein |
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| height | 350.8 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Elbe Sandstone Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '10 " N , 14 ° 13' 5" E | |
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| rock | Sandstone level c3 | |
| Age of the rock | Upper Turon | |
The Kaiserkrone is a heavily abraded and rugged remnant of a table mountain , which rises together with the Zirkelstein above the flatness of Schöna , directly on the outskirts in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony .
Extended rock fissures have created three single, climbable rocks, the three peaks of the crown, which belong to the large sandstone step c3 of the Oberturon . At the genesis or destruction of the 350.8 m above sea level. NN high rock plateaus, humans were also involved through their presence. Two lions have been carved out on the southern rock by unknown artists.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the imperial crown was still known by names such as Kahlstein, Zahnstein or Kronenberg. Even older names are Galitzstein (late 16th century), Golzenstein (late 18th century) and Gollstein (early 19th century).
At the southern foot of the Imperial Crown there are several sandstone rocks of characteristic shape, which were found in Caspar David Friedrich's sketchbook , which he drew during a visit to the Imperial Crown and later used as a background for the hiker in his painting " The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog " .
Imperial crown from the foot of the circle stone seen
View from the summit towards the Elbe
Rock group the rise, as a template for the pedestal of the Wanderers in the famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog served
Map from 1893 labeled "Kahle Stein"
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