Kilianstein

Kilian stone is the name of a free-standing pinnacle at the Hop mountain in the eastern part of the Sembachtal, about 800 meters east of the (upper) local situation Winterstein on the northern slope of the Thuringian Forest.

The 15 meter high rock is located at an altitude of about 500 m above sea level. NN. It consists of relatively brittle quartz porphyry, is rarely visited by sports climbers. Several routes are signposted on the rock routes are set up on the tower there is a summit log.

The in this area rather unusual shape of the rocks suggested centuries ago to the imagination of the common people, they often joined incomprehensible phenomena and mysterious places with the work of the devil. According to a legend Wintersteiner this rock, as rammed on the successes of the seconded to the area missionary St. Kilian times before the devil here his walking stick in anger in the Earth was formed, with the tip of the moving rod stuck there.