Ilsestein

The Ilse Stein, formerly also called Ilse Stein, is a granite rock formation of the resin near the town Ilse castle in the district of Harz, Saxony- Anhalt.

Geographical location

The Ilsenstein is located in the Upper Harz within the Harz Nature Park / Saxony- Anhalt Harz National Park, the boundary of the National Park along the forest road located directly east of the rock formation runs. His 2.25 kilometers (direct distance) south-southwest of the urban core of Ilsenburg to 473.2 m above sea level. NN situated summit rises about 130 to 160 m high above the directly west flowing in south-north direction over Oker inflow Use. Topographic maps can be seen that an in- river valley northeast fork below the rock formation at 315.5 m above sea level. NN and east of the Ilse stone next to the inn Ilsenstein preferred site of the aforementioned forest road to 465.6 m above sea level. MSL.

History

On the Ilsenstein was in the 10th century, a small, immediately after the transformation of the old Ilse castle built in a monastery fortress. It was destroyed after 100 years of existence around 1107. Your position could be reconstructed.

At the summit rock, Count Anton Stolberg- Wernigerode (1785-1854) on October 18, 1814, a year after the battle of Möckern on the first day of the Battle of Leipzig, build an iron cross. It serves the memory of his in the Napoleonic Wars (1813-1815) fallen friends and acquaintances. On October 18, 1913, an additional plaque was unveiled by explaining the history of the Iron Cross of 1814 in the presence of Prince Christian Ernst of Stolberg- Wernigerode ( 1864-1940 ).

To the Ilsenstein entwine several legends that brought, for example, Heinrich Pröhle on paper.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentions the Ilsenstein in the Walpurgisnacht scene in Faust I and together with Heinrich height and snoring explanation ribs in Faust II

Heinrich Heine describes in The Harz Journey, as he ascends the Ilsenstein.

A " Ilsenstein " is mentioned in the first act of Adelheid Wette's libretto to the fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck.

Viewing and hiking

From the top of Ilse Stein, the eye is to the nearby boulder, which rises approximately to the southwest, in the Ilsetal with the edge of mountains and to the north by Ilse castle and in the Harz mountains.

The closed for several years, Gasthaus Ilsenstein is included as # 30 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin.