Rockelmann
Sign in to saveThe Rockelmann is a mountain in the Ore Mountains in Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is south-southwest of Schwarzenberg. It formerly had two granite quarries, one of which was converted into an open-air theatre in the 1920s, the other into a Nazi arena (Thingplatz) in the 1930s, and is also the site of a memorial to soldiers killed in World War I; all three are within Rockelmann Park, which was laid out in the 1930s.
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- mountain
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Schwarzenberg
- Elevation
- 577.2
- Image
- Schwarzenberg Vorstadt und Rockelmann.jpg
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- Mountain
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- Soldiers' Memorial
- Nazi arena
- Park
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The Rockelmann is a mountain in the Ore Mountains in Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is south-southwest of Schwarzenberg. It formerly had two granite quarries, one of which was converted into an open-air theatre in the 1920s, the other into a Nazi arena (Thingplatz) in the 1930s, and is also the site of a memorial to soldiers killed in World War I; all three are within Rockelmann Park, which was laid out in the 1930s.
==Mountain== The first extant mention of the Rockelmann is in a church document dated 1552. The origin of the name is unknown. The mountain is a source of granite as well as of augen gneiss, and rock was quarried for centuries at two points on the mountain above the town; granite from the Rockelmann was used to build the castle, to build St. George's Church (St.-Georgen-Kirche) in the 1690s and to rebuild the town after a disastrous fire in 1709. A section of the town is named after the mountain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rockelmann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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