Sackhopper Dahlen

construction time
20th century,
probably 1980s
art style
modern
client
LPG Dahlen
Artist
–
Condition
The Sackhupper in Dahlen has been renovated.
Access
The Sackhupper in Dahlen can …

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André

May 11, 2022

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Market place of the city of Dahlen (Sachs.) - also called Sackhupperstadt; the listed brick town hall from 1888 in the design of historicism with stepped gables and an octagonal ridge turret with lantern, which is part of numerous small-town residential and commercial buildings; at the market fountain the statue of the "Sackhupper";

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maria

October 24, 2025

Hiking

According to legend, a boy from Dahlen was captured and put in a sack while trying to warn Emperor Henry of a Sorbian trap. The boy managed to escape by hopping to the emperor in the sack. Today, only the Sackhupper sculpture in Dahlen's market bears witness to the story.
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