Circle stone
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 View from the Kaiserkrone south-southeast to the Zirkelstein |
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| height | 384.5 m above sea level HN | |
| location | at Schöna ; District of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Elbe Sandstone Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 52 '43 " N , 14 ° 13' 15" E | |
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| Type | Table Mountain | |
| rock | Sandstone | |
The Zirkelstein in Schöna in Saxony District Saxon Switzerland-Osterzgebirge is 384.5 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in Saxon Switzerland and its smallest table mountain . Despite its small size and scope, its characteristic shape makes it one of the most distinctive rock formations in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains .
Geographical location
The Zirkelstein rises 6.4 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of Bad Schandau in the left Elbe part of Saxon Switzerland. Immediately northwest of the mountain is the Schöna district of the German municipality of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna and a little to the east in the Elbe valley is the Czech municipality of Hřensko ( Herrnskretschen ).
history
The first documentary mention of the mountain took place in 1592 as Circkelstein as part of the first Electoral Saxon survey carried out by Matthias Oeder . The name is derived from the distinctive shape that is reminiscent of a circle .
One of the earliest known illustrations of the circle stone comes from Caspar David Friedrich , who depicted the mountain in the background of his 1818 painting The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog . The cartographer Otto von Odeleben, who created a map of Saxon Switzerland from 1823 to 1826, was one of the first visitors to visit Table Mountain in 1826, which was still accessible at the time.
In 1842, the then owner of the Zirkelstein, Johann Gottlob Füssel from Schöna, made the summit accessible to visitors with a climbing system. In the same year he also set up a small mountain inn on the summit of Table Mountain. The mountain farm was run by the family until 1913 and then leased. On September 3, 1926, the mountain inn was set on fire by a lightning strike during a severe thunderstorm and burned down completely. The mountain is currently privately owned with an area of 7 hectares.
At the foot of the mountain there is a former Friends of Nature house with restaurants and a small bungalow village, which has been in private hands since 2008.
geology
The approximately 42-meter-high rock summit of the Zirkelstein consists of sandstones of level d, which are classified in the geological time scale in the Coniac level of the chalk . The summit sits on a scree slope c from the upper Turon, lined with forest . In more recent publications these sandstones are also referred to as Schrammstein layers .
Compared to the other table mountains in Saxon Switzerland, erosion and, above all, the sandstone karstification of the circular stone are already well advanced, the rocky crest is small.
view
Due to the isolated location, there is a comprehensive panoramic view from the summit of the Zirkelstein. The view is enough
- to the east: across the Elbe to the cut of the Kamnitz valley to the forests of Bohemian Switzerland with the Růžovský vrch (Rosenberg) to the Lusatian mountains with the Studenec (Kaltenberg),
- to the north: across the Elbe to the Schrammsteine chain and the Großer Winterberg ,
- to the west: to the table mountains of the Saxon Switzerland on the left Elbe,
- towards the southwest: on the two Zschirnsteine .
Paths to the summit
The best way to get to the Zirkelstein is from Schöna along a yellow hiking route that passes by at its foot. The summit itself can be climbed using stairs and ladders. To the north of the mountain, the Malerweg, the main hiking trail of Saxon Switzerland, runs from Schöna into the Elbe Valley to Schmilka.
gallery
Circle stone
View from Wolfsberg from
View from the Zirkelstein towards the Czech Republic, on the left the Rosenberg
View from Zirkelstein to the front table mountains of Saxon Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Inspiring panorama ( memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on panoramahotel-wolfsberg.de
literature
- Between Sebnitz, Hinterhermsdorf and the Zschirnsteinen (= values of the German homeland . Volume 2). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1959.
- Peter Rölke (Ed.): Hiking and nature guide Saxon Switzerland Volume 2. Berg- und Naturverlag Rölke, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-934514-09-6 .
- Roland H. Winkelhöfer: The Elbe Sandstone Mountains are a sandstone karst area . Verlag Der Höhelnforscher , Dresden Vol. 38 (2006), pp. 50-53, ISSN 0138-2519
- Roland H. Winkelhöfer: The whisk without a doubt. A local history of the 20 table mountains on the left Elbe in Saxon Switzerland. Verlag Der Höhelnforscher , Dresden, ISBN 3-00-004380-2 .
