Top 20 Natural Monuments around Oppach

Great rock formation near the mountain inn

story Trying to unravel a mystery. In the spring of 2006 we discovered a large hand-shaped weathering depression in the rocks of Upper Lusatia. We baptized it "God's Hand" Maybe it was just a whim of nature. Nevertheless, measurements carried out in the spring of 2007 yielded a surprising result: if you looked out of the triangular viewing hole of a nearby cave over the "God's Hand" towards the sky, you could see the noon point of the winter solstice directly. ... An accident? Since then we have systematically visited every rock known to us in Upper Lusatia and many more, examined them for characteristics and measured them. We discovered more solar observation phenomena. Individual rock objects with one or more viewing windows are particularly impressive. These viewing windows often mark not only the midday sun of the winter solstice, but also the morning and evening sun of both the winter and summer solstices and the beginning of spring and autumn. Some rocks reflect the observation scheme of the prehistoric "Nebra Sky Disc" discovered in Saxony-Anhalt even reflected 1:1. ... Is it really all just a coincidence???? We don't think so! We are of the opinion that although nature in many cases created the conditions for numerous viewing windows through crevasses and fissures in the rock, their alignment to always the same specific points in the sky is in many cases a deliberate work of man with the intention of using the suns and their movement in the sky to determine the length of the year and to divide it into periods. Undoubtedly traces of this targeted human influence and even stone tools used for this purpose have already been discovered and recorded in expert reports. In 2008, with the support of the star friends of the observatory "Bruno H. Bürgel" e.V. Sohland/Spree, we launched the "Project-Götterhand" to investigate the phenomenon. Source: Hand of the Gods

there is a bench up there to rest on.

Beautiful view

The war memorial is a bit strange in this place. Otherwise very contemplative.

According to tradition, the name of the mountain came about during the Thirty Years' War. At that time, the farmers of the area drove their cattle up this mountain to find protection and refuge. On the other hand, Theodor Schütze says: "The name can hardly have anything to do with calves that were supposedly hidden in the mountain forest during the Thirty Years' War." Kelerstein is listed on Scultetus' map from 1593. In a loan letter from 1669, it is referred to as a "Hichtwald". Source: Wikipedia

A long time ago a mechanic was commissioned by the Bautzen city council to provide the city with water from the river, but since the work was very expensive, he undertook to give up his head if it didn't work. So he built a so-called art and used one of the towers in the curtain wall, where the water is lifted up by machines and from there into the city. When the work was finished, behold, it did not work; So the builder was established and death awaited him afterwards. In the meantime he succeeded in escaping at night; He fled out the Neusalzaer Strasse, but when he came to the mountain near the village of Ebendörfel, he was suddenly seized with tiredness, sat down and fell asleep. Then he dreamed as vividly as if he saw that a rat was stuck in one of the tubes of his water art and that the work was clogged as a result. Upon awakening, he decided that at the risk of losing his life, he would return and take the advice. As expected, so it happened; he turned back and faced his judges on the condition that they allow him to examine the workings of his waterworks again before being led to death. He was allowed to do this, and behold, he really did find a rat in the tube, just as he had seen it in a dream. When it was pulled out, the water art went and continues to this day. Popularly called; but the mountain near Ebendörfel henceforth the dream mountain, from which the dialect of Bautzen made Dromberg or Thronberg. More information: https://historischerstammtisch.webnode.com/sagen/dromberg-und-die-wasserkunst/

The mountain, 9 km southeast of Bautzen, forms the western end of the Czorneboh massif. To the north are the places Rachlau, Döhlen, Pielitz and Großkunitz. To the west lies the village of Cosul, in between the road from Bautzen to Cunewalde leads past the mountain. To the south lies the Cunewald valley with the towns of Schönberg and Frühlingsberg. Sacrificial basin between Hromadnik and Czorneboh The Hromadnik is part of various legends that entwine around the Czorneboh massif. The sacrificial basin between Döhlener Berg and Czorneboh also plays a role here, as it is a typical leaching of granodiorite rock for the area. Another deepening is called the horse bustard. On the summit of the mountain, which is mainly covered with spruce, there are rocky cliffs that are also used for climbing. In the past, rock mining took place in the western foothills in particular, as evidenced by numerous smaller fractures, some of which are filled with water. Because of its location between Cunewalder and the Spreetal, the mountain is rich in precipitation and a source area. The butter water flowing to Cunewalde rises on the mountain. The hiking trail of German Unity runs over the Hromadnik and the Czornebohkette from Görlitz to Aachen. Source: Wikipedia