Steinkuppe

Pastviny in the Czech Republic, right in the background, the stone dome

The stone dome is a 806 meter high wooded hill south of Holzhau in the Eastern Ore Mountains Saxony, near the Czech border.

Geography

To the northeast lies Pond House, East Moldava, southeast of the deserted village Pastviny, south of the Bette leak in southwest Horni Ves and Český Jiřetín and northwest Holzhau.

Geology

The former quarry northwest below the summit point represents a geological event, earlier there was basalt, such as paving stones, broken down. The result is this deposit during the strong volcanic activity in the Cenozoic era before about 30 million years ago when lava the existing old porphyritic granite pierced underground and formed a source of basalt knoll. This basalt has strong interests in the minerals olivine and nepheline. The rock there formed originally basalt columns of five meters in length and 30 cm in diameter that converged at the summit.

View

From the summit, the view opens to the northwest on Holzhau and the Valley of the Freiberger Mulde. The slope below lying here used to be a ski jump for skiers.

Map

• Topographic Map 1:25,000, sheet 5247, Rechenberg- Bienenmuhle, eds: Geobasisinformation and surveying Saxony