Teufelsfenster Rock Formation

The Devil's Window is an interesting rock formation. The billboard briefly explains their origin. Especially in the wood box located below visitor book.

The name of the mountain, Czorneboh, comes from Sorbian and translates as "Black God". It is a legendary cult site of the Milzener, ancestors of today's Sorbs. Places like the Devil's Window may be evidence of that time.

The legend of the devil's window on the Czorneboh.
(after Köhler op. cit., p. 18.)
In a vacant spot on the western slope of the mountain, on the right, at the edge of the coniferous forest, one sees the beginning of a rock section which is designated by a round opening in the upper part of the rock as the so-called devil's hole or devil's window. According to the legend, little goblins are supposed to slip out of this opening and guard a cellar with infinite treasures, which is why the place has sometimes been called the goblin chamber. A woman who had gone up the mountain with her child to look for wild berries had [162] the opportunity to get into the cellar. She put her child on the floor of the cave and eagerly gathered up the treasures. Terrible thunder shook the earth and drove the fearful woman into the open. But when she looked around, the cave was closed and no entrance could be found again. The poor mother lay with her treasures, unconcerned about their value, for she had lost her child. But after a year on the same day she was standing at the devil's window again. The cellar opened and her child sat on the floor and played. The treasures might sparkle and shine, the mother did not see them, she only saw her child and snatched it from the subterranean powers with lightning speed.