Spitzhaus stairs

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Side view with a view of the Bismarck Tower
The upper part of the 397 steps, on the left the gate to the Goldener Wagen vineyard (after the renovation in 2012)
The shell pavilion at the top of the stairs
View of the stairs from above, in the background the Hoflößnitz

The Spitzhaus staircase (also annual staircase or sky staircase ) is located in the Saxon city of Radebeul . It connects the Hoflößnitz winery with the Spitzhaus or the Bismarck tower . The climb, including the shell pavilion at the top, is a listed building. The staircase is located in the conservation area Radebeul Historic vineyard landscape and is part of the historic preservation impersonal entity as well as the listed vineyard landscape of Hoflößnitz .

Staircase and shell pavilion

Spitzhaus stairs

For August the Strong , Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann designed an annual staircase of seven steps with 52 steps from the Hoflößnitz to his planned, further pleasure palace on the edge of the Wahnsdorf plateau ( on the "plate" ). It was to be built on the Wolframsdorfschen vineyard , which came into electoral possession in 1710. After Pöppelmann's death, between 1747 and 1750, 390 steps were even built, making it the largest baroque staircase in Saxony, overcoming a height of 76 meters over a length of 220 meters. It was restored from 1845 to 1847 by master builder Karl Moritz Haenel and extensively renovated in 1992 using Posta sandstone and Meißner granite . It was expanded to 397 steps with 57 paragraphs.

The Spitzhaus staircase leads past the striking entrance portal of the Goldener Wagen vineyard to the west , which gives the Radebeuler Goldener Wagen its name.

In the first stair landing above the gate system, on the side facing the Goldener Wagen vineyard , two metal strips were embedded next to each other. These bear the commemorative inscription:

"In memory of the people who were abducted from their homeland by the National Socialists and who had to do forced labor in the Saxon vineyards from 1939 to 1945."

An inscription plate is attached to the eastern retaining wall, which refers to the number of steps and the popular name annual staircase :

“So that the vernacular is right
, in future we will only count from here.
From here on it is really true,
up to and including a year. "

Shell pavilion

At the top of the stairs there is the shell pavilion instead of the originally planned pleasure house . The semi-dome-shaped building over a semi-circular floor plan emerges directly from the vineyard wall. The light building is crowned at the top by a dark boarded, triumphal arch, which rests on two strong, plastered pillars with cornice and a quarter rod with a strong plate. A three-step flight of steps leads into the interior, which is open to the south to the Elbe, and there are two benches inside. The niche in the center of the rear wall is empty. The pavilion dates from 1751.

Events

The Spitzhaus staircase race takes place once a year . Since 2005 it has been held under the name Saxon Mt. Everest Stair Marathon . In this competition, participants have to climb up and down the Spitzhaus staircase 100 times in a 24-hour time window with two extended laps at either end. The entire route with a total of 79,400 steps to master corresponds to a double marathon distance of 84.39 kilometers, and the 8848 meters in altitude to be conquered in turn correspond to the height of Mount Everestes . This is how the idea of ​​presenting the flights of stairs as a kind of sporty counterpart for climbing the highest mountain on earth emerged at the organizer.

It is the longest distance of its kind, and the race is described by the trade press as possibly the toughest flight of stairs in the world. Individual starters as distance or 24-hour runners, three-person ropes and different team sizes can take part. More than 700 participants took part in the 2011 event, with only 28 men and two women of the individual starters reaching the 100-lap and three men the 24-hour goal.

literature

Web links

Commons : Spitzhaus Staircase  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Stair marathon. Staircase team Radebeul - Organizer of the staircase runs in Radebeul, accessed on May 17, 2011 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 34 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  2. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 275 ff. and enclosed map .
  3. ↑ a b The Spitzhaus & the Spitzhaus staircase
  4. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : The art monuments of Dresden's surroundings, Part 2: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt . In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , Volume 26, CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1904, p. 138 f. ( Digitized Oberlössnitz. Hoflössnitz. Sheet 151 ( Shell Pavilion ) , Sheet 152 )
  5. ↑ The route. (No longer available online.) Radebeul staircase team, archived from the original on October 2, 2011 ; Retrieved May 17, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.treppenlauf.de
  6. ↑ 18-hour flight of stairs: "There is much more in each of us than you might think". Lausitzer Rundschau , April 26, 2011, accessed on May 17, 2011 .
  7. ↑ The special running tip: Mt. Everest stair marathon. (No longer available online.) Runner's World , March 17, 2010, formerly the original ; Retrieved May 19, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.runnersworld.de  
  8. ↑ Technical data. (No longer available online.) Radebeul staircase team, archived from the original on October 1, 2011 ; Retrieved May 17, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.treppenlauf.de
  9. ↑ About 700 started running up the stairs. (No longer available online.) Sächsische Zeitung , April 18, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 17, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sz-online.de  
  10. ↑ Double marathon in the vineyards. (No longer available online.) Runner's World, April 26, 2011, formerly the original ; Retrieved May 19, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.runnersworld.de  

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 49 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 49.2 ″  E