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Saxon SwitzerlandByrrhus Rocks (Märkel Memorial)
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Saxon SwitzerlandByrrhus Rocks (Märkel Memorial)
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Byrrhus Rocks (Märkel Memorial)
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RadlerUnterland🚵♂️
April 12, 2023
Hiking
If you walk up the Wehlener Grund for about 15 minutes coming from the town of Wehlen, you will come to a small open space. At this point, two paths …
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•RadlerUnterland🚵♂️
April 12, 2023
Hiking
If you now turn your gaze to the Byrrhus rock, you cannot miss them. A marble tablet embedded in the sandstone. This plaque bears the inscription:
"the thorough researcher of this area Friedrich Märkel Cantor in St. Wehlen in his Tedesjahj 1860 erected by the ISIS in Dresden"
This was attached in the year of his death by the scientific society "ISIS", which has existed in Dresden since 1833.
Source: hm-noroc.de/persons/friedrich_maerkel.html
"the thorough researcher of this area Friedrich Märkel Cantor in St. Wehlen in his Tedesjahj 1860 erected by the ISIS in Dresden"
This was attached in the year of his death by the scientific society "ISIS", which has existed in Dresden since 1833.
Source: hm-noroc.de/persons/friedrich_maerkel.html
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Juschu ( Jürgen & Vicky)
December 25, 2022
Hiking
here found J.Chr.Friedrich Märkel (entomologist)
the beetle Byrrhus ornatus, after which the rock was named
the beetle Byrrhus ornatus, after which the rock was named
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