The Kyffhauser is a low mountain range in Northern Thuringia. Together with the Wind deflector, which is adjacent to the southwest and the Kyffhäuser Mountains of Sondershausen separates, it borders in the north on the Goldene Aue in the state Saxony-Anhalt, in the south and southwest to the Hainleite and in the southeast to the reed, which is traversed by the Unstrut.
places
- Outdoor life - Humboldtsches Schloss with Humboldtzimmer and Heimatstube; Museum “Neuer Rüxleber Hof”.
- Bad Frankenhausen - a small town on the southern edge; Peasant War Monument.
- Bendelife - between Windleite and Kyffhäuser; with baroque installations
- Herrings - located in the north-west; preserved city wall rings and Heringen Castle.
- Kelbra - northwest of the Kyffhäuser with the Kelbra dam
- Tilleda on the northern edge of the mountains with the open-air museum Königspfalz Tilleda (info).
Other goals
- Kulpenberg, with 474 m the highest point; Lookout point.
- Badraer Switzerland, a karst landscape west of the Kyffhäuser
- Golden floodplain, fertile river landscape immediately north of Windleite and Kyffhäuser
- Wind deflector, wooded hilly landscape with numerous hiking trails
- Esperstedter Ried, southeast of the Kyffhäuser
background
Old Barbarossa
the emperor Friederich,
in the underground castle
he keeps being bewitched.
He never died
he still lives in it now;
he hid in the castle
sat down to sleep.
He has taken down
the kingdom's glory
and will come again someday
with her, in due time.
He nodded as if in a dream
his eye beckons half open;
and depending on the length of the space
he waves to a boy.
He speaks to the boy in his sleep:
Go to the castle, o dwarf
and see if the ravens are still there
fly around the mountain.
And if the old ravens
still fly
I have to sleep like that too
To the Kyffhauser legend: In the saga, an old, generally widespread myth is connected with the person of Frederick II. Almost all peoples believe that certain heroes, especially favorites of the people, are raptured to mountains after death, where they live on. The ancient Greeks and the natives of Mexico had this belief; a particularly large number of examples can be found on German soil. So lives Wedekind at Niedermehnen in Westphalia, a Siegfried at Geroldseck, at Rouffach in Alsace, in Unterberg near Salzburg and in Odenberg in Hesse, Charlemagne, under the rock of Kronborg near Helsingør Holger Danske, in Sweden in several mountains King Olaf; The Celts also believed that their King Arthur was resting in a mountain and would one day come again for their liberation. Friedrich II is said to live on in a rock cave near Kaiserslautern, but especially in Kyffhäuser.
Whether this Friedrich took the place of another hero or a god, Wotan, cannot be decided. The second element of the Kyffhauser legend is history. According to popular belief, Frederick II, who had fought so vigorously against the papacy, should not have died, but should have been raptured. It was hoped that one day he would return, destroy the power of the priests and restore the old glory of the kingdom. Since the end of the 14th century, the legend has been localized especially on the Kyffhäuser. At the beginning of the 19th century the Romantics picked them up again, and Rückert's song “Barbarossa” (1817) soon made them known throughout Germany. This poem also spread the mistake that Frederick I Barbarossa was the slumbering emperor, even if the two Friedriche were confused as early as the 16th century.
getting there
The Kyffhäuser Mountains are from south to north by the B 85 from Weimar above Bad Frankenhausen crossed to Berga am Südharz. The A 38 runs north Hall–Goettingen.
The Halle - Kassel railway line with local trains runs to the north (stop in Berga-Kelbra). It continues with buses. Realistically, however, traveling by car will be the more practical option, also for getting around on site.
mobility
The on-call bus (also hiking or Kyffhäuserbus called: Tel. 0391 5363180) you have to order no later than two hours (as of the 2018 season) before the departure mentioned in the timetable! The bus also takes bicycles. The best thing to do is to have the bus driver give you the mobile number in the call center.
Tourist Attractions
- 1 Kyffhäuser Monument, Kyffhäuser Monument, 06567 Steinthaleben. Tel.: 49(0)34651 2780, Fax: (0)34651 2308, Email: [email protected].
Monumental monument in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I, which tries to place him in the tradition of Friedrich Barbarossa.Open: April - October 9.30 a.m. - 6 p.m., November - March 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Price: € 7.50, reductions for families, schoolchildren, students and the severely disabled.
- 2 Kyffhausen Castle. Höhenburg from the Hohenstaufen era, in its time one of the largest castles in Germany. Ruin within which the Kyffhäuser monument was erected.
- 3 Peasant War Panorama, in Bad Frankenhausen. 360-degree monumental painting by the Leipzig painter Werner Tübke, inaugurated in 1989. In the painting, the painter depicted the history and stories about the peasant wars (1524-26) realistically and partly allegorically.Open: Tue-Sun 10-18 (Apr-Jun, Sept-Oct), daily 10-18 (Jul-Aug), Tue-Sun 10-17 (Nov-Mar).
- 4 Barbarossa Cave. Karst cave in the anhydrite of the Kyffhäuser Mountains. Due to the proximity to the Barbarossaburg- and -denkmal already in the 19th century as Barbarossa Cave marketed. It goes about 1100 m into the mountain and has 9 degrees all year round.Open: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Apr-Oct, Tue-Sun 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (Nov-Mar); access to the cave only with a guide, approx.Price: € 7.50.
- There are many on the wind deflector Orchid species and geological outcrops.
activities
- hike - Hiking articles for the Kyffhäuser:
- Hike Bad Frankenhausen - Kelbra
- Hike "red triangle" in Kyffhäuser
- Kelbra circuit in Kyffhäuser
- Hike Kelbra - Kyffhäuser Monument - Kelbra
- Hike Tilleda - Kyffhäuser - Ententeich and back
- GeoPfad Kyffhäuser Mountains
- To run - Participation in Kyffhäuser mountain run
kitchen
accommodation
security
climate
The current weather data (Kyffhäuser Monument) can be called up here: Weather station Kyffhäuser Tourism
literature
- Sven Frotscher: The Kyffhäuser - nature, history, architecture, monuments of Europe. Artern 1996, ISBN 3-00-000509-9
- Günter Behm-Blancke: Cave sanctuaries cannibals. An archaeological factual report from the Kyffhäuser. Dingsda-Verlag Querfurt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-928498-86-X
