Weber grotto

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Weber grotto

Weber grotto

Weber grotto
Location: Saxon Switzerland
Geographic
location: 		50 ° 53 '17 "  N , 14 ° 17' 31"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '17 "  N , 14 ° 17' 31"  E
Weber grotto (Saxony)
Weber grotto
View from the Weber grotto (still without a railing to protect the rare vegetation), on the right the row of steps of the former ascent to the tourist path
Brandstein 1842 in the Weberschluechte

The Weber grotto is one of the largest rift caves in Saxon Switzerland and is located in the area of ​​the Großer Zschand . It has a triangular base with an edge length of about 10 meters each and a height of about 5 meters.

location

The Weber Grotto is located at the end of the Weberschlueche, an approximately 2 km long western side gorge of the Großer Zschand in the core zone of the Saxon Switzerland National Park . It can be reached by hikers from Neumannmühle in around 2 to 2.5 hours. In the rear part of the grotto there is an occurrence of luminous moss and in front of the grotto, blocked off by a railing, an occurrence of the stem-encompassing knot foot .

Tourist development

In addition to the forestry use of the weaver's gorges, a hiking trail past the grotto, over a row of steps in a boulder and a wooden ladder to overcome the difference in altitude, was expanded into a historical tourist trail and on to the Prebischtor at the beginning of the 19th century . The fire stone from 1842, which reminds of the forest fire on August 31, 1842 in this area, also dates from this time.

Current condition

Until the beginning of 1990 it was possible to use the historic hiking trail to the Prebischtor. When the Saxon Switzerland National Park was proclaimed in 1990, the hiking trail to the Prebischtor was interrupted and made impassable a short time later by dismantling the wooden ladder. With the introduction of the path concept in the national park, only marked hiking trails may be used in the core zone. So that the weaver's grotto can still be reached, the weaver gorge was marked as a mountain path from the Großer Zschand.

Others

The legend that Carl Maria von Weber was inspired by the Weber Grotto and the Weberschlueche for his opera Der Freischütz is not documented.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Mothes: Mountain Paths and Other Paths in Sandstone Volume II, Stiegenbuchverlag, Halle 2009
  2. ↑ Meinhold's route guide No. 1: Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland.
  3. ↑ Werner Liersch: The romantic mountains. Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH, Chemnitz 2001, ISBN 3-928678-68-X .

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