Gypsy wall
The natural monument Gypsy Wall in the Mühlviertel Nature Park in the market town of St. Thomas am Blasenstein in the Perg district in Upper Austria is an imposing rock formation with a large, naturally covered cave and a sacrificial table in the tent-shaped entrance.
The gypsy wall is the largest and most important of six natural monuments in the market town of St. Thomas.
description
It is a rock formation typical of the Mühlviertel and Waldviertel , which is called wool sack weathering in technical language , made of Weinsberg granite .
Due to its size and character, the gypsy wall gives the landscape a special character and was therefore declared and protected as a natural monument on August 4, 1988 by decision of the state of Upper Austria.
history
The gypsy wall allegedly served the robber Johann Georg Grasel for some time as a shelter in the second decade of the 19th century and is likely to have been used more often as accommodation by traveling people .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Gypsy Wall natural monument in St. Thomas on the bladder stone in the nature conservation database and in the nature conservation book of Upper Austria. State government queried on September 4, 2011.
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 58 " N , 14 ° 45 ′ 45.6" E