Butterberg (Bischofswerda)
View of the butter mountain of direction Rammenau
The butter mountain is 385 meters high mountain of Bischofswerda in Upper Lusatia in Saxony Bautzen district.
Location
It is located about three kilometers north of the center of the city. To the east lies the district of her Schönbrunn, flanked to the north Burkau the butter mountain, in the west it borders Rammenau and Burkauer mountain. Five hundred meters to the southeast lies the adjacent 368 -meter-high Schärfling. After Geißmannsdorf the mountain flattens gradually as it drops steeply Burkau.
At the top of the butter mountain is a mountain inn, which opened in 1860, including 21 meters high observation tower.
Two trails touch on the butter mountain. The Lusatian land was laid out in 1912. It runs from Kamenzer Hutberg to high forest in the Zittau Mountains. Already since 1911, consists of the Northern Mountain Range trail that starts at the Keulenberg at Oberlichtenau and leads to the provincial crown at Görlitz. The ridge trail is also called " thief climbing " and is from the Feme or Lynchgerichtsweg coming from Burkau crossed. Not far from this intersection there is a stone cross with incised dagger. According to legend, here Hans Ziegenbalg from Burkau have slain his godparents. According to other traditions of the stein features the Bischofswerdaer place of execution or the border between former Meissner and Oberlausitzer area.
Two groups of rocks protrude about three hundred meters northwest of the mountain restaurant at 350-370 meters above sea level. NN from the hillside out. The rocks mentioned cats stones consist of Zweiglimmergranodiorit and three and a half feet high and twenty feet long. Nearby landmarks are preserved, one of them dates from 1773 and shows two as in the arms of the city crossed episcopal crooks.
On the eastern flank of the mountain is another mountain economy, hunting cottage.
History
1544, the city acquired Bischofswerda the butter mountain of the manor owners to Pickau, the brothers of Bolberitz.
Origin of the name
The name origin is explained in the following two reports:
According to legend, the mountain is said to have got the name " butter mountain " during a great plague. Most the plague raged in Bischofswerda and environment between the years 1577 and 1586, over six hundred thousand of the inhabitants of the town died. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages did not dare to enter the city. Therefore, they brought cereals, flour, eggs, milk and butter to the mountain, where they picked up the Bischofswerdaer inhabitants. For dealers and buyers did not come into close contact, water pots were set up in which the money had to be thrown for the purchased butter. In order to protect themselves from the contagious plague, the dealer washed the money with broom. The goods were delivered to the buyers pushed out of the city from a distance with crutches.
The chronicler Karl Wilhelm lunch bears the name back to a Wendish origin. The name is derived from Sorbian sun god " Jutrow ". From the " Jutrowberg " the Sorbs had " Butrow " and the Germans " butter mountain " made later.
Hydrology
The butter mountain forms part of the watershed between the right Elbnebenflüssen Wesenitz and Schwarze Elster. To the west it drains through the cross water (and the Gruna ) and to the south over the Hustegraben to Wesenitz. To the north, the monastery of water flows and to the east the silver water out (via the black water) to the Black Elster.