Gohrisch (hill)

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The Gohrisch ( erroneously also Gohrischstein, 440 meters ) is a table mountain in the linkselbischen Saxon Switzerland Saxony.

Location

The Gohrisch is located about four kilometers southeast of Königstein and about four kilometers south of Bad Schandau center of a plateau ( flatness ), which is still dominated by further similar rocky mountains. Surrounding mountains are the pope stone Kleinhennersdorfer stone and the lasing stones. Tourist this micro-region is often named in the Saxon Switzerland as the area of the stones. At the foot of Gohrisch are the small towns Gohrisch and Pope village belonging to the municipality Gohrisch. On the east side as witness of previous mining attempts of soapstone tunnels. In the immediate vicinity of which there is a small, misshapen quarry in the Basalt is mined as road gravel.

History

1496 " Gohrischer stone " is first mentioned. In the Thirty Years' War, a gap formed by the weathering of the cave ( " cave Sweden " ) served as a short-term refuge for the inhabitants of the area.

The rugged rocky plateau was a tourist development of the mountain opposite long. Even in 1846, when the tourist development of the neighboring mountains was already underway, noted a guide: ". The Gorischstein is very difficult to climb " Only when the village Gohrisch developed into a summer resort in 1869, and the mountain a target of became increasingly trippers. At this time insisted on the neighboring mountains Pope 's Stone ( 1858) and Pfaff Stein ( 1852) for several years first small catering cottages.

Under the royal forester Emil Grünewald (1842-1892) and with the support of the Mountain Association for the Bohemian-Saxon Switzerland, the summit was opened by three fortified ways in 1886. Two years later (1888 ) the Beautification Association Cunnersdorf erected on the east side of the summit plateau, a small octagonal shelter. Probably still the end of the 19th century was to compile an initial weather vane on the rock of West View, which is labeled " weather vanes views " brought the prospect.

The refuge at the Ostaussicht fell into disuse after 1945. According to The end of the Second World War also no longer maintained roads systems were restored in 1955 under the National Construction work. In 1985, the establishment of the now sixth on the weather vane weather vanes views. The dilapidated hut was rebuilt on the same site in 1998.

Geology and Mining

The Gohrisch consists of sandstones of steps d and e, which are classified in the geological time scale in the Upper Turonian and Coniacian stages of the Cretaceous. In recent publications, these sandstones are also called Rath Ewalder or Schrammstein layers.

Originally made ​​of Gohrisch together with the adjacent Papststein and the Kleinhennersdorfer stone a coherent sandstone tablet which manufactures eroded in the course of their development history of the north in three residual massifs that form the stones mentioned today.

There is a smaller occurrence of a basaltic rock, which is called Leuzitbasanit To the east of Gohrisch. This basalt penetrated the Tertiary as liquid magma along fractures and faults in the sandstone one. In most cases, remained such melts in the sandstone plaque stuck and cooled there. The basalt at Gohrisch was partially degraded by a small, now abandoned quarry.

In the contact area of the basalt to sandstone, a 15 to 20 cm thick layer of soapstone, a clay decomposition product of the basalt is. Later studies (1868, 1928) showed that it is contrary to the older traditions not to soapstone (magnesium silicate), but a clay with a high proportion ( 7.2 percent ) of titanium ( IV) oxide is.

This occurrence was driven by mining through the soapstone tunnels. It is still unclear whether the tunnel originally served the mining of soapstone, or whether he mighty small coal deposits ( caused by driftwood in the sand stone) should open up and the already mentioned basalt deposits. The age of the tunnel is unknown.

Older traditions call already in 1583 the pit Hülffe God on Gohrisch. The chronicler William Leberecht Götzinger indicates that the soapstone tunnel was built around 1750 in search of coal.

Since the 1990s, the tunnel serves as winter quarters for bats. For the mouth hole was closed to the public.

Climbing rocks

Although the Gohrisch is part of the climbing area Saxon Switzerland, but has only five climbing peaks on the southern and western edge of which the "dwarf" ( First ascent 1905) and " Severed wall " are the best known. The other climbing rocks are " dunce cap ", " Gohrischscheibe " and " boulder ".

View

The view from Gohrisch is extremely broad, the view sweeps over practically the entire Saxon Switzerland and parts of the Bohemian Switzerland. The view extends

• In the south: on the vast forests of linkselbischen Saxon Switzerland with the clearings of the villages Pope village and Cunnersdorf towards the Zschirnsteinen and Děčínský Sněžník ( High Schneeberg ),
• In the north: on the village Gohrisch Lilienstein and rechtselbischen flatness at Walter village and Rathsmannsdorf to the heights of the Lusatian Fault,
• In the east: on the Pope's stone towards the Schrammsteine ​​, the Great Winterberg, the Tanečnice (dance Plan) and Unger mountain, just to the east of the mountains of the Lusatian Mountains are seen as examples here are Studenec ( Cold Mountain ), Jedlova ( Tannenberg ) and Klíč ( Kleis ) called
• In the west: on the blackboard Berger linkselbischen the Saxon Switzerland ( Pfaffenstein, whisk, Königstein, bear stones, Rough stone) to the heights of the eastern Ore Mountains.

Way to the summit

• About the Gohrisch is a marked with a red dot trail, which has its starting point in Königstein and continues over the pope stone towards cribs. The trail is part of the set up in 2006 painter path of the Saxon Switzerland main trail.
• A good starting point for visiting the mountain is also the trail parking lot on the road connecting Gohrisch Pope village. About above-mentioned Trail is the summit in about 20 minutes away.

West Promotion, part of the painter path

Refuge at the Ostaussicht

Overlooking the West views ( " weather vanes view" ) with the weather vane from 1985