Stone Agnes

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Stone Agnes, mountain side

The stone Agnes is a bizarre rock form on the Dreisesselberg in the Lattengebirge in the Berchtesgaden Alps . The name Steinerne Sennerin can be found on old maps .

Description and geology

The rock formation on the southern slope of the Keilkopf in the Lattengebirge is about 1305  m above sea level. NHN in the district of Bischofswiesener Forst in the community of Bischofswiesen . The rock point is about 15 meters high on the valley side and consists of Ramsaudolomite . This rock was formed in the Middle ( Ladin ) and Upper Triassic ( Carnian and Norian ) about 242 to 208 million years ago through sedimentation in a tropical shallow sea. In lagoons that are cut off from the open sea, the calcium is replaced by magnesium, and dolomite is formed . The layers show different levels of resistance to weathering . If they are not overturned by the mountain folds, softer layers (the thin “neck” of the stone Agnes) are protected by harder layers above them (the “head”), which favors the formation of mushroom rocks.

  • The stone Agnes, position on the slope

  • Stone Agnes, seen from the east

  • Steinerne Agnes, valley side (south)

  • Stone Agnes: "head" and "hat"

Ascent

Four paths lead up to Steinernen Agnes from the valley between Bad Reichenhall and Bischofswiesen: one from the parking lot south of the Hallthurm over the Rotofensattel, a second from Schwarzenlehen, the third from Bichllehen near the Winkl landfill, the fourth and longest from the Frechenbachtal, over the Eastern slopes of the Lattengebirge and past the Steinbergsee. A hiking trail leads from the Steinernen Agnes to the Dreisesselberg and the Karkopf.

The ascent of the rock has a level of difficulty V (UIAA) . The stone Agnes was first climbed in 1929 by M. Hartmann and M. Bode. The explanatory board five minutes below the rock tower refers to the “voluntary geotope protection” and calls on climbers to refrain from ascent. Damage to the formation by striking hooks or the like is not allowed in any case.

On the mountain side there is a small rest area in the middle of the mountain pines , which is not easy to reach from the path below , from which one has the best view of the Steinerne Agnes and the Watzmann , which lies far to the south .

Naming

The name is due to the unusual appearance of the rock head and is explained by two etiological sagas. According to one, the Stone Agnes is a petrified, god-fearing and chaste dairymaid. To protect her from the devil's pursuits, she was turned to stone. According to another tradition, on the contrary, she was a prostitute who killed her own illegitimate child and was petrified for it.

Geotope

The rock tower has been designated as a valuable geotope (geotope number: 172R012) and natural monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment .

In 2006 the Stone Agnes was added to the list of 77 national geotopes in Germany. The rock formation was also awarded the official seal of approval “ Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes ” by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment .

Others

To the south and east of the Steinernen Agnes was the now-abandoned Rotofenalm (Hinterrotofen-Alm and Vorderrotofen-Alm), of which only the Rotofenalm service hut, located around 100 meters south of the Steinernen Agnes, remains.

Another eye-catching formation in the area is the popularly known as the Sleeping Witch or Montgelas Nose , which is located at the eastern end of the Lattengebirge.

Web links

Commons : Steinerne Agnes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Steinerne Agnes , Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on October 11, 2012
  • Steinerne Agnes , geotope cadastre of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on August 3, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BayernAtlas: First recording (1808-1864) . Steinerne Sennerin and Rothofen-Alpe
  2. ↑ The Stone Agnes ; Retrieved June 11, 2009.
  3. ^ Hermann Froidl: Bavaria - Tirol for climbing apprentices and journeymen . Touristiktopoverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-9802381-1-3 .
  4. ↑ Hike to the Stone Agnes - A stone mushroom grows out of the rock ; Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ Sagen.at - The stone Agnes ; Retrieved March 3, 2013
  6. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotope Steinerne Agnes (accessed on October 19, 2017).
  7. ↑ Hanni Eichner: Foresight of a lady - The "Stone Agnes" in the Lattengebirge near Berchtesgaden. In: Ernst-Rüdiger Look, Ludger Feldmann (Ed.): Fascination Geology. The important geotopes of Germany , E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-510-65219-3 , pp. 152f.
  8. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment: Her Highness - the Most High: Stone Agnes . In: Hundred Masterpieces - The Most Beautiful Geotopes of Bavaria , Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936385-89-2 , pp. 188f.
  9. ↑ Rotofen-Alm . In: Agricultural and cultural heritage database . Society for Agricultural History

Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 11.6 "  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 32.3"  E