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Hike to "Kaiserkrone" and "Zirkelstein"

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  • start: Village square Schöna
  • destination: Village square Schöna
  • medium
  • 5,32 km
  • 1 hour 40 minutes
  • 167 m
  • 341 m
  • 249 m

Leisurely round up the smallest table mountain in Saxon Switzerland. Caspar David Friedrich was already on the move here. His "Wanderer over the Sea of Fog" is probably the best-known painting of German Romanticism. It shows a well-to-do hiker with a frock coat and walking stick standing on a rock in contemplation of a landscape of partly bizarrely shaped mountain peaks rising out of a wafting morning mist. The landscape depicted in the painting is Saxon Switzerland. For Friedrich, who spent most of his life in Dresden, the nearby rocky world was a place of longing, inspiration and refuge in a world that was coming apart at the seams.

Schöna village square - Kaiserkrone - Zirkelstein - Schöna village square

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  • Street (1%)
  • Asphalt Coating (9%)
  • Crushed Rock (18%)
  • Hiking Trail (43%)
  • Path (29%)

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