Kaiserkrone (hill)

Looking for the imperial crown from the Zirkelstein

The imperial crown is a heavily abraded and jagged remnant of a table mountain, which rises together with the circular stone above the flatness of Schoena, directly at the outskirts of the village in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony.

Through advanced rock crevices are three separate mountable rock that emerged three prongs of the crown belonging to the großbankigen sandstone step c3 Oberturon. At the genesis or destruction of 350.8 m above sea level. NN high rocky plateau has also been the person involved with his presence. At the southern rock two lions have been carved out by unknown artists.

Beginning of the 19th century was still known by names such as Kahlenstein, tartar or Kronenberg the imperial crown. Even older names are Galitzstein ( late 16th century ), Golze Stone ( late 18th century ) and Gollenstein ( early 19th century ).

At the southern foot of the imperial crown, there are several sandstone cliffs of characteristic shape, which is again found in the sketchbook of Caspar David Friedrich, he drew on a visit to the imperial crown and later used " Wanderer above the Sea of ​​Fog " as a reason for the hiker in his painting.

Gallery

On one of the prongs of the imperial crown

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