Barbarine
The Barbarine is the most famous free-standing rocks in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The 42.7 meter high spire is considered a landmark of the Saxon Switzerland. It was first climbed on September 19, 1905, mountaineer and was declared on 13 December 1978 relating to the natural monument, after the rocks had been previously banned two years for climbing.
Local situation
The Barbarine part of the massif of the district Pfaff Pfaff stone village of the town of Königstein.
Mountain Sports Development
The attempt of the climber Felix Wendschuh on September 9, 1905 was the first documented attempt an ascent. He pushed in his attempt to just below the summit head, but at least until the end of the crack before. The story goes that the host of the Pfaff stone, wild boar, forced him under threat of a display to repentance, might not be true. Boar was even climbers and probably had nothing against ascents, especially as the later first ascent attempt proven documented with him in the pub.
On September 19, 1905, the Dresdner climber Rudolf Fehrmanns and the American Oliver Perry -Smith conquered by the first mountaineers Barbarine. The day before, they had already made it to just before the summit, but were too exhausted to climb safely recent projection on the top head. Another, located on the side of the valley route was opened on July 8, 1924 by Alfred Hermann.
Through lightning in the top head and progressive erosion of the upper summit heads were increasingly unstable, so already ausgossen 1946 mountaineer the well with concrete. Due to the further erosion continued in 1964 further work was carried out, the summit head has been confirmed and spans with steel cables. With a circumferential steel cord of the torn upper head is protected from further degradation. Only in 1975 a general ascent was prohibited.
In the years 1979/80 Sandsteinverfestiger was introduced into the summit heads. The upper head received a cap from synthetic sandstone and was treated with water-repellent agents. The geological nature monument is now only exceptionally climbed - mostly by geologists and other scientists to examine the current state.
The saga of the Barbarine
According to legend, the Barbarine is a petrified virgin, the everlasting memorial of a criminal court, after which it is to be-ing done that a mother her daughter Sunday was hot to go to church, but the daughter went sey -ending church on the Pfaffenstein in the Heydelbeere, and when she found her mother there, she had the daughter verwünschet in anger that she must be on the spot to the stone; what such a moment so happen, and therefore this has become a stone maid get up here this always, and with her rock -forming warn all disobedient children. The name was derived from the Barbarine name of the girl. In a variant of this legend is in the mother by an evil witch and the girl meets the Pfaffenstein her lover, a hunter.
Gallery
Detail of the head of Barbarine in winter
Marker at the Barbarinenaussicht on Pfaffenstein