Luchsstein (Saxon Switzerland)
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The lynx stone is a memorial stone from 1743 in Saxon Switzerland . It is located in the corridor of Ottendorf and stands southeast of the Raumberg on the border with the Czech Republic in Ziegengrund, a small side valley of the Kirnitzschtal . The memorial stone commemorates the last lynx documented to have been hunted in Saxon Switzerland .
A large sandstone block about 2.20 m high in the goat ground served as the base of the memorial stone . The relief of a lynx and a memorial inscription were carved into these. The inscription is carved out of the stone in the form of an approximately oval medallion. It is:
"Here I have Joh. Gottfr. Puttrich Königl. Forester from Hinterhermsdorf killed a lynx with a self-shot ao 1743 "
Until 1785, however, there were still lynxes on the left Elbe in neighboring Bohemian Switzerland . This year, the last lynx was hunted near Kristin Hrádek , north of Děčínský Sněžník (High Snow Mountain) on February 4th.
Since around the 1960s there have been regular observations of lynx in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . At the end of 2010 and in February 2011, lynx traces were clearly documented again near Hinterhermsdorf .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ulrich Augst, Holm Riebe: Die Tierwelt der Sächsische Schweiz , Dresden 2003, Berg- & Naturverlag Rölke, ISBN 3-934514-12-X , p. 47 f.
- ↑ Peter Rölke (Ed.): Hiking & Nature Guide Sächsische Schweiz , Volume 1: Hintere Sächsische Schweiz, Dresden 1999, Berg- & Naturverlag Rölke, ISBN 3-934514-08-1 , p. 177
- ↑ Distribution of the lynx in Germany ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2015 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 April 21, 2011)
- ^ Report of the Sächsische Zeitung of February 16, 2011 (accessed on April 21, 2011)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 33 ″ N , 14 ° 20 ′ 50 ″ E