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Grandfather's Chair

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Grandfather's Chair

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Location: Frauenstein, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

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3. Frauenstein Castle – Zeisigstein loop from Frauenstein

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BLKTRX

February 3, 2024

Grandfather's chair, this rock made of granite porphyry is popularly called.

More than 300 million years ago, acidic magma penetrated a fissure in the earth's upper crust and slowly solidified at depth to form granite porphyry. In a brown-red ground mass there are large potassium feldspars (orthoclase) and phenocrysts of quartz and biotite (mica). By removing the land surface, this rock, which was harder than its gneiss surroundings, was modeled out and, at the latest in the Ice Age, formed this ridge with individual rocks.

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Uli & Berli 🐕 sind unterwegs

July 28, 2024

This is what this granite porphyry rock is popularly called.

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March 9, 2025

Interesting and beautiful to look at.

I stayed here for a while.

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Elevation 620 m

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Location: Frauenstein, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

Grandfather's Chair

1. Frauenstein Castle – Zeisigstein loop from Frauenstein

2. Silbermann Fountain – Frauenstein Castle loop from Frauenstein

3. Frauenstein Castle – Zeisigstein loop from Frauenstein

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