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View from the Rahmhanke to the Elbe

The Rahmhanke or Rahm-Hanke is an unsecured, partially exposed via ferrata in the Saxon Switzerland National Park .

Location and course

The Rahmhanke leads as a narrow path on a ledge below the bastion about halfway above the Elbe and does not overcome any significant differences in height. It begins at the viewpoint of Tiedgesteins and runs under the slingshot and the viewpoints of the bastion towards the waiting tower . Then the path ends in the Hirschgrund. The entire climb is unsecured; There are no holding irons, steel ropes, clamps or other auxiliary equipment, and smaller climbing passages have to be mastered at various points. Because of this and the exposed nature of the route, the Rahmhanke is considered to be challenging and can only be walked on in good weather.

history

The rock path was already there and known in the Middle Ages. It was integrated into the defense lines of Altrathen Castle and Neurathen Castle . Around 1895, the climb was rediscovered by the mountaineers Rahm and Hanke, who were both employed in the Basteigaststätte at the time, and named after them after they left their names on the rock face.

Cream and Hanke

Emil Max Rahm (born May 16, 1872 in Bonnewitz ) was the son of the timber merchant Moritz Rahm and his wife Anna Therese Rahm, née Sperling. The hobby mountaineer Max Rahm went into the catering trade and became a waiter. In the 1890s he became head waiter at the inn on the Bastei, where he also met Hanke at the latest. In 1900 he married Lina Keil, from this connection they had five children. The marriage ended in divorce at the beginning of the First World War . From 1922 to 1933 Rahm ran the Böhnischhof in Dresden's Johannstadt with his second wife , and from 1936 he leased the Ratskeller in Dresden-Coschütz . Rahm is said to have died on July 31, 1952 in Meißen and was buried in an urn grave in the Heidefriedhof.

All we have known about Hanke is that he worked with Rahm in the Bastei restaurant at the end of the 19th century.

Others

On the night of August 14th to 15th, 1934, the rock face on the Rahmhanke was opened with the slogan Out with Thälmann! described, a slogan widespread at the time for the release of the KPD politician Ernst Thälmann, who was arrested in 1933 . According to a description from 1984 by the Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement, the lettering made of white lime paint was about 80 centimeters high and 15 meters long, and communist activists Fritz Demmler and Walter Neugebauer are said to have been responsible for this.

In 2004, Wilfried Rahm from Mannheim , a grandson of Max Rahm, celebrated the Rahmhanke with members of the Saxon Mountaineering Association .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Geier: Rahmhanke. wandern-saechsische-schweiz.de, accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Hartmut Goldhahn: Die Rahmhanke. In: History and Nature of Saxon Switzerland. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Emil Max Rahm. In: JohannStadtArchiv. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Rathen: Bastei, Rahm-Hanke. (No longer available online.) Memorial sites in Europe, archived from the original on June 30, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 . 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.gedenkplaetze.info
  5. ↑ Wilfried Rahm: Mountaineering Story - In my grandfather's footsteps . In: Der Neue Sächsische Bergsteiger - Newsletter of the SBB . No. 1 , March 2005, p. 38 ff . ( Online (PDF; 1.4MB) ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 42.7 "  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 14.4"  E