Rugged table mountain in Schöna - a place of inspiration for Caspar David Friedrich
The ascent can be mastered via well-developed paths and steps. The peaks offer sweeping views across the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, to the Zirkelstein, the Schrammsteine and as far as Bohemia.
The scenic effect of the rock has inspired artists of the Romantic period. Caspar David Friedrich also spent time here; the surroundings were incorporated into his sketches and later paintings.
"Felsige Kuppe" is the name Caspar David Friedrich gave to the delicate pencil drawing he made on June 3, 1813 on the Kaiserkrone table mountain, not far from the village of Schöna. He had only started drawing again two days earlier, after a creative crisis lasting several months, triggered by the events of the war. Around five years later, he drew on these and other studies - including one of the Gamrig - to create an oil painting in his studio. It would become his most famous work. The "Felsige Kuppe" is the rock on which the "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" stands. "So high above the highest point of the rock is the horizon", he noted in the margin of the drawing "Felsige Kuppe".
