Whale head

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Whale head , also called a frog , 1975 with a clear view of Schönheide .

The whale head , also known as the frog , is a rock formation 700.4  m above sea level. NHN am Heiteren Blickweg in the forest area between Eibenstock and Schönheide in the western Ore Mountains. It is located south of Schönheiderhammer on the border between the communities of Schönheide and Eibenstock. It is a typical weathering of wool sacks in the form of a mattress from the Eibenstock granite . Today, the area around the rock is largely overgrown with spruce forest. At the end of the 1920s, the Walfischkopf was recommended as a lookout point by the Erzgebirgsverein . Up until the 1970s he had a good view of Schönheide and the surrounding area, which today is mostly overgrown with spruce trees. The term frog is particularly common in Schönheide . In the Oberreitschen map series from 1843, the name of the rock formation is given as "the whale fish head" and its height in feet. It is shown on sheet 19 – Schwarzenberg–. Around 1900 the forests around the Walfischkopf were marked by forest damage, which resulted from the coal-fired steam boiler systems of the factories in Schönheide and Schönheiderhammer.
According to the natural space map of Saxony , the whale's head lies in the mesogeochore "Eibenstocker Bergrücken". At the Walfischkopf the three microgeochores "Rautenkranz-Schönheide Mulde-Tal", "Eibenstocker Talsperrengebiet" and "Mühlberg-Krinitzberg-Riedelgebiet" border each other.

A brook named Walfischkopf rises in the area of ​​the rock and flows into the Zwickauer Mulde near Schönheiderhammer . The stream has the water code 54115716.

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  • Whale Head (or Frog) 2016

  • A fallen birch blocks the access

  • Despite dead spruce trees, Schönheide is hard to imagine

  • Impressive rock formation in the area

  • Weathering of wool sacks on the whale's head

Web links

Commons : whale head or frog  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  2. ↑ Jakob Andreas Hermann Oberreit: Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Saxony, second delivery, containing the sections Freyberg, Schwarzenberg, Zittau and Weissenberg , cover sheet 1843 ( digitized in the State and University Library Dresden )
  3. ↑ Oberreit: Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Saxony, second delivery, containing the sections Freyberg, Schwarzenberg, Zittau and Weissenberg , sheet 19-Schwarzenberg- from 1843 ( digitized in the State and University Library Dresden )
  4. ↑ Forest map of the smoke damage caused by the Schwarzenberg government office, scale 1: 75,000, based on: Ekkehard Schröter: Plumes of smoke in the forests of the Schwarzenberg government office and the factories with a fixed steam boiler system as of January 1, 1907 , Parey-Verlag, Berlin 1907 ( Link zu Map sheet and its description in the State and University Library Dresden )
  5. ↑ Natural space map service of the Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV Dresden ( information )
  6. ↑ Saxony water balance portal - low water parameters http://hydra.wasy.de/mnq-sachsen/website/ (link not available)

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 29.8 ″  E