Kleiner Bärenstein
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The Little Bear Stein ( 338 m) is a table mountain in Saxon Switzerland in the Free State of Saxony. Immediately adjacent is the Great Bear Brick, the massif of the Bärensteine with the little bear stone.
Location
The Little Bears stone lies in the Elbe loop of Rathen. The Bears stones belong to the local district Weißig. At the foot of the bear stone are the forested areas of the peasants spot from Weißig. Located close to the villages Thürmsdorf and Obernaundorf. On the Little Bear stone there are several climbing peaks. The most important of them is the Thürmsdorfer stone.
History
The Little Bears stone was first documented in 1548 as " the Behr stone ". Earlier descriptions also spoke of the " Thürmsdorfer Baerenstein ".
From 1851 to 1881 forester Wilhelm Mahn made the bear stone for hikers accessible.
Since 1847 was located on the Little Bear stone a small wooden mountain inn, which one goal for massively after 1867. By 1902, even two bears were kept in a bear pit. After 1945, fell the hitherto much-visited tourist restaurant. Your foundation walls are visible today.
2004, the forest area has been acquired for the Bears stones from private owners.
Special
Thief Keller
At the southwestern foot of the Little Bear is a stone formed by a rock fall and erosion collapsed cave that is called " thief Keller" in the vernacular. In Saxon cave cadastre the cave is run as a thief Keller ( Götzinger Cave) with the cadastre number 5050 PW -15. It has a length of 25 meters and is easily walkable.
Who grew up in nearby Struppen Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger received as a child in his own words on a hike to the Little Bear stone the first suggestions for exploring the Saxon Switzerland nature. Götzinger wrote in later years, the first comprehensive descriptions of the Saxon Switzerland. 1886 brought the Mountain Club of the Saxon Switzerland in the basement of a thief Götzinger commemorative plaque.
Jungfernsprung
The Jungfernsprung at the southern end of the Little Bear Stein is based on the legend, according to which a girl here had plunged from the rock, which was followed during the Thirty Years War by Swedish soldiers. To whose memory they chiseled a still visible cross in the vertical wall at this point.
View
On the summit of Little Bear stone there is a lookout point overlooking large parts of Saxon Switzerland.
Climb to the Little Bear Stone
View from the Little Bear stone to the neighboring Great Bear Stone
View from the Little Bear stone to the fortress Königstein and Pfaffenstein
Remains of the guest house on the Little Bear Stone
Remains of the guest house on the Little Bear Stone