Rockelmann
| Rockelmann | ||
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 Rockelmann with two quarries above the suburb of Schwarzenberg |
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| height | 577.2 m | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 31 '49 " N , 12 ° 46' 47" E | |
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The Rockelmann is a mountain in the south-southwest of the large district town of Schwarzenberg in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis with a height of about 580 m above sea level .
General
The Rockelmann was first mentioned in 1552 in a church bill. The origin of the name is unknown. Granite was extracted from the two quarries on the northern slope of the elevation centuries ago for the construction of the Schwarzenberg St. Georgen Church in the 1690s. In 1908 there were serious efforts to build an observation tower on the Rockelmann. Curt Rambach , for example, wrote the poem "Wos iech erlabt hoo off'n Rokelmaa!" which was distributed on a postcard in favor of the Rockelmann Tower. In the 1930s, the Grenzlandfeierstätte was built on the site of the upper quarry. The lower quarry was converted into a nature theater in the 1920s. A district of Schwarzenberg was named after the Rockelmann.
Natural theater
The natural theater, inaugurated on July 9, 1924, on the site of the lower Rockelmann quarry initially offered space for 700 visitors and had a mobile moving platform in front of a rock face with stairs and risers. During the Nazi era, it was called the natural stage “ strength through joy ”. The number of performances has decreased since the 1960s, the theater closed completely at times and is now the stage for only a few sporadic events.
Warrior Memorial
On October 10, 1926, a memorial for the Schwarzenberg soldiers who fell in World War I was inaugurated by members of the Saxon military association "King Albert" zu Schwarzenberg on the area previously known as Jahnwiese . The swearing warrior figure attached to the eight-meter-high brick column was created by the Chemnitz sculptor Bruno Ziegler and was melted down during World War II . During the renovation of the column, which had become necessary due to leaking salts, a soldered copper cassette was discovered under the top of the column in October 2008, the old contemporary banknotes, a newspaper, the program for the consecration and a report written by the grandfather of the sculptor Hans Brockhage about the monument.
Frontier Celebration Site
After the idea arose in the early 1930s of building a facility for mass events on the site of the upper Rockelmann quarry, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 7, 1934. Much of the blasting, transport and construction work was carried out by labor service workers . A total of 1,300 workers were deployed. According to contemporary information, the labor service performed a total of 60,000 daily jobs , and the skilled workers 20,000. At its widest point, the facility measured 102 m, from the stage to the tower, which can be reached via a 174-step staircase, the length was 30 m. In the area of the right-hand stage structure, a sheet copper can was walled in with construction documents, a daily newspaper and coins. The system was still planned as a thing place on 25./26. It was inaugurated in June 1938 as a “celebration site of the people's community” (Grenzlandfeierstätte) and, according to a building drawing, had 6500 seats and 5600 standing places. In 1950 the President of the GDR , who was present in person, renamed it "Wilhelm-Pieck-Feierstätte", and in 1993 it was named "Waldbühne". Today the facility can hold a maximum of 15,200 visitors, but is only rarely used for events.
literature
- Annelies Borack, Gunther Borack: All about the Rockelmann. Rockstroh, Aue 2006.
- Freie Presse (Schwarzenberg edition) from 23. and 25./26. October 2008.
