Devil's pulpit

Teufelskanzel is a common name for rocky areas or other prominent points in the terrain that are legendary .

Examples

• Teufelskanzel (Godelsberg) , on the Godelsberg in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; see Fasanerie (Aschaffenburg) #Teufelskanzel and Goldbacher Kanzel
• Teufelskanzel (Bad Laasphe) , on the Weibersberg near Bad Laasphe, Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Teufelskanzel (Brocken) , on the Brocken near Schierke , Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt
• Teufelskanzel (Eberbach) , in the Neckar Valley / Odenwald near Eberbach , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Ebersteinburg) , in the Black Forest on Merkur near Ebersteinburg (Baden-Baden), Baden-Baden district, Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Eichelwang) , in the Kaiser Mountains , part of the Schanzer Walls, on Rogerkopf near Eichelwang (Ebbs), Tyrol
• Teufelskanzel (Eichsfeld) , on the Höheberg near Lindewerra, Eichsfeld district, Thuringia
• Teufelskanzel (Frickenhofer Höhe) , in the Frickenhofer Höhe on the Hohentannen near Rotenhar (Gschwend), Ostalbkreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Gengenbach) , on the Rempeneck near Gengenbach , Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Großdraxdorf) , on the roof hill Großdraxdorf near Großdraxdorf (Berga / Elster), district of Greiz, Thuringia
• Teufelskanzel (Gütighofen) near Gütighofen (Ehrenkirchen), Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district, Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Happurg) , on the Hochberg between Förrenbach and Thalheim (Happurg), Nürnberger Land district, Bavaria
• Teufelskanzel (Heidelberg) , in the Neckar Valley at the Königstuhl near Schlierbach (Heidelberg), Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Herdecke) , in the Ardey Mountains on the Ruhr in Herdecke , North Rhine-Westphalia
• Teufelskanzel (Jockgrim) ( Deifelskanzel ), in Jockgrim , Germersheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Teufelskanzel (Kandel) , in the Black Forest, part of the Kandel rock near Waldkirch , Emmendingen district, Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Teufelskanzel (Kruft) , on the Krufter oven near Kruft , Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Teufelskanzel (Mobendorf) , on the Große Striegis near Mobendorf (Striegistal), Central Saxony district, Saxony
• Teufelskanzel (Nienstedt) , in the Deister near Nienstedt, Hameln-Pyrmont district, Lower Saxony
• Teufelskanzel (Rachlau) , on the Czorneboh mountain near Cunewalde, Bautzen district, Upper Lusatia, Saxony
• Teufelskanzel (Spechtsbrunn) with Kleiner Teufelskanzel , in the Thuringian Slate Mountains near Spechtsbrunn (Sonneberg), Sonneberg District, Thuringia
• Teufelskanzel (Thale) , in the Bodetal near Thale , Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt
• Teufelskanzel (Wilthen) , near Sora (Wilthen), Bautzen district, Upper Lusatia, Saxony

See also

• Brocken witch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brothers Grimm, Ed .: Deutsche Sagen, Berlin 1816, p. 272
2. ↑ The Devil's Pulpit. (With full screen). In:  Österreichische Alpenpost , year 1903, No. 6/1903, March 25, 1903, (fifth year), p. 134 f. (Online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Andreas Frey: The fall of the Teufelskanzel , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 1, 2011. Page 61
4. ^ Richard Witzsch: Between Chemnitz and Freiberg, a home book for school and house, II Die Dörfer an der Striegis, Frankenberg 1929, p. 30