Εύκολες πεζοπορίες και βόλτες Oderwitz

For the Saxon triangulation see also https://www.komoot.com/de-de/collection/1055603/-koeniglich-saechsische-triangulierung

A literary monument - albeit rather bizarre in the context of the story - is the Spanish author Miguel de CERVANTES, who commemorates the windmills with which our ancestors harnessed the energy of the wind centuries ago to move the large and heavy millstones : In one episode, his tragic novel hero DON QUIXOTE, the "knight of the sad figure", wants to defeat her in a duel in the belief that he is fighting against giants with four arms.

Today they are hardly ever used in their original function, but only technical and historical monuments of a long tradition of craftsmanship: The heavy millstones inside were moved solely by the power of the wind as driving energy and thus, for example, grain grains were ground into flour (so-called grain mills ) or the oil is pressed from (e.g. olive) fruits (so-called oil mills). Thus, these ancient windmills are the best evidence that humans were clever enough to harness the power of the wind for a number of centuries - long before the discovery of electricity and the inventions that followed. So what is celebrated today as modern (so-called green or renewable) energy is basically just the proverbial "old hat in a new guise".

510m high and great all-round view, all mountains in the area are marked. Royal Saxon triangulation column at the summit (1864).

A beautiful vantage point with a fantastic 360° panorama over Upper Lusatia, the Iser Mountains, the Jeschken, the Zittau and Lusatian Mountains to Saxon Switzerland.

The Oderwitzer Spitzberg offers a fantastic 360° panoramic view, is geologically interesting, was a triangulation point of the Saxon state survey of 1864.

The mill has been lovingly renovated and restored. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to look at it from the inside.

Beautiful and very well maintained mill. Pretty photo opportunity.