Bärensteine

The Bärensteine ​​near Weißig are composed of the Great and the Little Bear Steinberg Mountains in Saxon Switzerland in the Free State of Saxony.

The Little Bears stone has a height of 338 meters, the Great Bear ausladendere stone is 327 meters, the lower of the two mountains. On the Little Bear Stone was once a view restaurant that belonged to the manor Thürmsdorf and was plundered and demolished in the years after the Second World War.

The name bears stone goes back to the noble family of Amber, who already in 1548 the goods Thürmsdorf and Struppen possessed. Of the interesting and great caves of the two mesas only the thief basement, also Götzinger cave is called, visited on the Little Bear stone regularly.