Schnarcherklippen

Snoring explanation ribs are an impressive, twin-towered granite rock formation (up to 671 m above sea level. NN ) near Schierke in the Harz mountain range in the district of Harz, in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geographical location

Snoring explanation ribs are located in the Upper Harz Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt between the villages Schierke the north and misery in the southeast to the northwest edge of the wooded Barenbergs ( 695.5 m above sea level. NN ), the west of the Valley of the Cold Bode rises. In the neighborhood of the mice cliff in the northwest and the shear Stork lips in the southwest lie.

General

The two 20 m from each other and standing about 25 m to 28 m high rock towers of snoring explanation Ippen belong to the Brocken granite floor and have a significant Wollsackverwitterung on. A special feature of the cliffs is the deflection of the compass needle from its northern direction due to the presence of magnetite in the rock. With wind from the south-east the cliffs produce strange noises, which were key to the naming sponsor.

Goethe and the cliffs

On his third trip resin in September 1784 visited Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among others, also the snoring explanation ribs. This took place in Faust I and Faust II mention:

Seh the trees behind trees, as they passed back quickly, and the cliffs, the stoop, and the long rocky nose, as they snore as they blow! Goethe ( Faust I )

The block mountain is a really convenient local, Where you may be, you will find yourself especially. Ilse watches over us on her stone, On his Hoh Heinrich will be lively, Although the snorer snouts to the misery, But everything is done for a thousand year. Goethe ( Faust II )

Hiking and Climbing

Snoring explanation ribs can be reached on a shortest path from Schierke. They are recognized as # 14 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin. The stamp location Schnarcherklippe located in a standing near the cliffs shelter.

The north-eastern rock is mountable on an iron ladder, the south-western climbers remains reserved. Here, on the southwestern cliff or more routes are I- VIIIb ( Saxon scale) available, the routes on the northeast tower have difficulties of IV to IXc on.

View opportunity

From the peaks of snoring explanation Ippen Erdbeerkopf Barenberg falls the view to the resort Schierke in the north, north-north- east with the Hohnekamm located beyond it, in the southeast, Brocken massif in the north-west, Worm Mountain in the west.