On Kaiserkrone and Zirkelstein (Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna)

1:40 h
5.32 km
167 m
167 m
249 m
341 m
92 m
Start: Village square Schöna
Destination: Village square Schöna

Relaxed round trip up the smallest table mountain of Saxon Switzerland. Caspar David Friedrich was already on the move here. His "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" is probably the best-known painting of German Romanticism. It shows a well-to-do wanderer in a frock coat and with a walking stick standing on a rock, contemplating a landscape of partly bizarrely shaped mountain peaks rising from swirling morning mist. The landscape depicted in the picture is Saxon Switzerland. For Friedrich, who spent most of his life in Dresden, the nearby rock world was a place of longing, inspiration, and refuge in a world gone astray.

Village square Schöna - Kaiserkrone - Zirkelstein - Village square Schöna

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The starting point of the route is the village square in Schöna. On the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Weg, you climb up to the Kaiserkrone. The Kaiserkrone is, by the way, the heavily rugged remnant of a table mountain. Three different viewpoints offer an impressive panorama with the Schrammsteinkette, the Großer Winterberg, and the Bohemian Switzerland.

The route then leads across flat terrain to the Zirkelstein, which is considered the smallest of the local table mountains. You reach the rock plateau via a series of iron ladders. A worthwhile stop after the route is the guesthouse "Am Zirkelstein" in Schöna, where delicious dishes are lovingly prepared from regional ingredients.

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