Mirror forest
| Mirror forest | ||
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 King Albert Tower |
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| height | 727.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Erzgebirgskreis , Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 34 '32 " N , 12 ° 47' 31" E | |
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| rock | Phyllite | |
| particularities | Lookout tower and mountain inn | |
The Spiegelwald is a mountain in the Saxon Erzgebirge in the Erzgebirgskreis with 727.7 m above sea level. Above sea level. It is located in the area of the city of Grünhain-Beierfeld north of Schwarzenberg and east of Aue . The Spiegelwald is a popular destination with a particularly good view of the Ore Mountains and the Schwarzwassertal near Schwarzenberg.
history
Matthes Enderlein assumed that around 1200 the routes to Bohemia had to be secured. For this reason, some castles, but above all the Spiegelwald (formerly called Spähwald ), were built as a strategic security position.
Lookout tower and mountain inn
During a visit to the Ore Mountains in 1880 , King Albert laid the foundation stone for the first observation tower . The 17 meter high brick tower was inaugurated again on September 11, 1881 in the presence of the monarch and was named King Albert Tower in his honor . In 1903 a mountain inn opened on the summit. At the end of the Second World War , 1945, low-flying aircraft damaged the observation tower, which initially remained in ruins after the war . Because of its dilapidation, it was finally demolished in 1967.
After the German reunification there was the possibility of a new construction, so that on November 17th, 1999 a new 40 m high tower was opened. It was named after its predecessor, the König-Albert-Turm , and has a viewing platform 31.5 m high, which can be reached either with a handicapped-accessible elevator or via 180 steps.
A new mountain inn, the Spiegelwaldbaude , went into operation in 2008. The owner of the restaurant with beer garden and sun terrace is the Mühlbach couple.
literature
- Reinhart Heppner , Jörg Brückner , Helmut Schmidt: Saxon-Bohemian panoramic mountains of the western Ore Mountains in words and pictures with tourist information. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2001, pp. 49–51.
Web links
- History. In: spiegelwald.de. October 3, 1920. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Take the elevator to majestic views ( memento from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the Spiegelwald website .
- ↑ Information on the Spiegelwaldbaude ( memento from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at www.spiegelwald.de