Hexentanzplatz (Harz)

The Witches' Dance Floor is a plateau (454 m above sea level. NN ), situated high above the Bode Gorge, opposite the Roßtrappe in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geography and History

The Bode Valley cable car runs from the valley of the witches ' ​​dancing place. There is also the Harz mountain theater valley, one of the oldest outdoor theater in Germany, with 1,350 seats, which was founded in 1903 by Ernst Wachler.

The museum in the Walpurgis Hall, which was built at the suggestion of the painter Hermann Hendrich, the mythology of the resin and Scenes from Goethe's Faust to life. It is also a sacrificial stone is issued, reminiscent of ancient fertility rites.

Be drawn remains of Saxony Walles About the witch dance place. It is a 150 m long dry stone wall from granite stones of the past 2 m high. It was built about 750 to 450 BC. The wall screened off from parts of the elevated terrain of the witches dancing and probably served as a refuge castle.

It is home to the zoo witches dancing place, representing the diversity of the Harz region with many different types of animal; the Alpine-Coaster Harzbob; and below the mountain the Homburg Theatre waiting.

The witches ' ​​dancing place is supposedly also a old Saxon place of worship, were held at the esp. in the night of May 1, the worship of so-called Hagedisen ( forest and mountain goddesses ) festivals. The place was only after the ban of the cult by the immigrant Christian Franks to the witches' dancing place. According to tradition, the place to check the ban was guarded by Frankish soldiers disguised as witches and brooms of anreitenden Saxons were driven out. Another old cult place of Saxony is located on the Brocken.

Since the mid-19th century, there is the witches ' ​​dancing place of the same mountain hotel.

Photo of 1860

Witches' Dance Floor 1900

Witches' Dance Floor 1900

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Figures on the witches ' ​​dancing place

The witch

The assistant of the devil