Locomotive (rock)

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View over the Amselsee to the locomotive
The locomotive in Rathen, on the left the locomotive cathedral, on the right the forge

The locomotive is a striking rock climbing north of the health resort Rathen in Saxon Switzerland . The rock, also known as the Great Ruin , is approx. 30 m high and is divided into two parts, called the Locomotive Dome and the Locomotive Esse . The ridge between the two is referred to as the Kesselgrat , the rocky point next to the Esse as a pipe . For a short time there was also a weather vane in the shape of a wheel on the cathedral. The locomotive rises on the massif of honey stones .

The current name of the rock originated in the second half of the 19th century. Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger had still described it as a large ruin , later names were Waldschlößchen , robbery castle and around 1880 still camel . The cathedral of the locomotive was first climbed in 1886 by Friedrich Hartmann and Robert Kappmeier . In the history of climbing in the Saxon Switzerland , the June 7, 1903 by Albert Kunze, featuring Oliver Perry-Smith carried out the first ascent of the forge the first step in the climbing in the free wall . Until then, climbers had mainly orientated themselves on chimneys and cracks . The first ascent of the day in difficulty classified V and as Lokomotiv raid marked climbing route on the chimney triggered a comprehensive, up to 1,910 permanent development period in the Saxon Switzerland from where climbers like Kunze, Perry-Smith and Rudolf Fehrmann many important climbing peak , as the Barbarine , climbed the Great Hercules Column , the Jungfer or the Devil's Tower for the first time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Climbing Guide Saxon Switzerland, Volume Wehlenergebiet / Rathenergebiet / Brand, p. 214
  2. ^ Rudolf Fehrmann: The Mountaineer in Saxon Switzerland , Verlaganstalt Johannes Siegel, Dresden 1908 p. 75
  3. ↑ Fehrmann, p. 76
  4. ↑ Hans Pankotsch, Dietmar Heinicke: The names of our climbing peaks , Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund , Dresden 2013, p. 25
  5. ↑ Däweritz, p. 26 ff.

literature

  • Karl Däweritz : Climbing in the Saxon Rock , Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1979
  • Dietmar Heinicke (Ed.): Climbing Guide Saxon Switzerland, Volume Wehlenergebiet / Rathenergebiet / Brand , Dresden 2003, ISBN 3934514065
  • Rudolf Fehrmann: The Mountaineer in Saxon Switzerland , Johannes Siegel Publishing House, Dresden 1908

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '  N , 14 ° 5'  E