Lynx stone (Eastern Harz)
The lynx stone in the Harz is a historical memorial stone near the Sonnenklippen below the Brocken in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt . It reminds of the last lynx hunted on the Brocken with the inscription: This is where the forest controller Kallmeyer shot the last lynx on March 24, 1817.
For a long time this lynx was considered to be the last of its kind in the Harz, although the last lynx, which the local lynx stone is reminiscent of, was not shot in the western Harz until a year later . The animal was prepared by A. Berger in Braunschweig on behalf of Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and exhibited in the Count's-Stolberg natural history cabinet in the orangery in Wernigerode . Today it is in the Harz Museum in Wernigerode .
The last brown bear living in the wild was exterminated in the Lower Harz a century earlier . The bear monument near Bremer Teich in the Anhalt Harz region is a reminder of this .
On the other hand, the Ferdinand's stone near the Plessenburg near Ilsenburg (Harz) commemorates the last free-living wolf that was shot by Count Ferdinand zu Stolberg-Wernigerode .
It was not until 1999 that the Harz National Park released lynxes back into the western Harz. These lynxes have reproduced well since then and are spreading in northern Germany. The lynx monument east of Torfhaus reminds of the resettlement .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ferdinand Freytag: The guide through the Graffschaft Wernigerode from the city of Wernigerode together with a chart of this Graffschaft. Eigenverlag, Wernigerode 1856, p. 11 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Ivonne Sielaff: Local history you can touch. In: Volksstimme.de, February 13, 2015 ( online , accessed February 6, 2016).
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 50 " N , 10 ° 39 ′ 34.7" E