Großer Zschirnstein

Zschirnsteine ​​, Small Zschirnstein left, right Big Zschirnstein

The Great Zschirnstein ( 561.74 m) is the highest mountain in the Saxon or German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.

Origin of the name

The name seems to derive from the Slavic root word for black.

Location

At Great Zschirnstein there are two climbing peaks, Great and Little Zschirnsteinturm. There is also the climbing route south wall (IV ), which ends at the highest point of the mountain. This climbing route is one of the three exceptions to the Saxon climbing rules, which climbing is prohibited at massifs in general.

At the southern tip, next to the lookout point was since 1865 a Nagelsche column. She reminded August Nagel, the chief surveyor in Saxony in the 19th century. The survey was carried out in the triangulation. Further triangulation points of interest were among others on the space mountain, the stone roses, the Cottaer Spitzberg and the High Schneeberg. The column on the Great Zschirnstein was lost in 1900. In May 2011, the reorganization of a copy was made.

Geology

The typical Table Mountain consists of sandstone. At the summit plateau is a tertiary basalt eruption, which had been dug in a small quarry for gravel extraction. The resulting at the highest level of Table Mountain as a result of Sandsteinverkarstung rock basin is the largest in area of the Elbe sandstone and has from time immemorial the name " Rabenbad ".

View

From the Grand Zschirnstein you can from the northeast on the south to the northwest, inter alia, following mountains, rocks and places to see: Falkenstein, Schrammsteine ​​, Tanečnice (dance chart) Great Winterberg, Zirkelstein, Kottmar, Prebischtor, Brana ( Rain meadow), Vlčí hora ( Wolfsberg ) Jedlova ( Tannenberg ), Pěnkavčí vrch ( Finke Mountain), Studenec ( cold mountain ), Zlatý vrch ( Goldberg ), Růžovský vrch (Rosenberg ), Ještěd ( ridge), Klíč ( Kleis ) Bezděz ( Bösig ) Buková hora (Zinc stone ) ( with marked television tower ), Lovoš ( Lobosch ) Kletečná ( Kletschen ), Milešovka ( Milleschauer ) Děčínský Sněžník ( High Schneeberg ), Dresden.

Others

14 February 2010 fell to 20.20 clock an aircraft type Cessna Citation 550 on the southeast flank of the mountain in the steep slope area. The aircraft belonged to the Czech airline Air Time, was from Prague to Karlstad ( Sweden) busy road and with two pilots who did not survive the crash. After evaluation of the voice recorder was used as crash cause an aerobatic maneuvers ( role ) for which the aircraft is not allowed detected.