Schmoritz
| Schmoritz / Žmórc | ||
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 On the summit of the Schmoritz. You can see one of the two ring walls, which is broken through by the path. |
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| height | 412.4 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Pielitz , Saxony | |
| Mountains | Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 8 '2 " N , 14 ° 28' 29" E | |
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| rock | Granodiorite | |
The (or the) Schmoritz , in Upper Sorbian Žmórc or Šmórc , is a 412 meter high mountain in the northern mountain range of the Lusatian mountains in eastern Saxony not far from Bautzen .
location
The neighboring mountains are the slightly higher Thromberg in the west and the lower Mehltheuerberg in the northeast. The Czornebohkette joins in the southeast . At the foot of the Schmoritz are the places Binnewitz in the northwest, Mehltheuer in the north, Pielitz in the east, Großkunitz in the southeast and Kleinkunitz and Cosul in the south. The summit is located on the territory of the municipality of Großpostwitz .
Surname
The name Schmoritz or Žmórc goes back to the Sorbian word šmrěk (regional šmrjok ) for "spruce" and describes a place with a spruce forest. The Sorbian name is male; in German, both the masculine and the feminine article are in use.
history
On the Schmoritz there is a stone double ring wall built from granite blocks , the authorship of which is not clear, but which was in use as a summit castle in Slavic times . The inner wall has a diameter of 60 to 90 meters and a height of up to three meters. The outer wall measures around 170 meters in diameter. In the center of the inner wall there is an artificially dug pit called the thief's cellar or robber's den . According to legend, a castle once stood here, which was connected to Bautzen by an underground passage. During investigations by Richard Needon in the years 1904-06, iron slag, charcoal, remains of small crucibles and ceramics were found.
In 1584 the city of Bautzen bought the village of Mehltheuer together with the Schmoritz as a replacement for the Thromberg, which was lost in the Upper Lusatian Pönfall , and used the mountain forest as a forest district.
The entire complex is heavily overgrown and has been protected as a ground monument since 1971 .
Granite cut, also called the robber's cave, on the summit of the Schmoritz
Rock face on the Schmoritz, about 5 m high
Meadow on the northern slope of the Schmoritz, near Mehltheuer
swell
- ^ Richard Andree: Wendish wandering studies. Stuttgart 1874, p. 124f. ( Digitized SLUB Dresden )
- ^ Theodor Schütze: To Bautzen and Schirgiswalde. Results of the local history inventory in the area of Bautzen and Schirgiswalde. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 126.