오푸르그‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪20‬개의 천연기념물

A beautiful piece of earth

A beautiful stilt house on the pond in Plothen 🤩.

A very impressive ⛪️ ruin in the middle of the forest 🌲🌳 .

The small village, probably founded in the 12th century by the Lobdeburg family, was an active fief of the Abbots of Saalfeld and was repeatedly deserted. Since the 16th century, only two houses were occupied as forest and field supervisors, and not always. In 1850, the last family left the isolated place.

Bräutigamswand, a legendary sandstone cliff

The Bräutigamswand is located on a beautiful trail (Saalleitenweg), which follows the course of the Saale between Oberkrossen and Zeutsch. Stories say that girls from Töpfersdorf used to meet here to see their future husbands in the Saale fog. One day, when a girl was standing on the cliff of the mighty rock and looking into the fog, she saw her husband. The girl was frightened and fell down the "Grätigamswand". She fell into the Saale and has not been found to this day.

The Plothen Ponds are a 75 sq km area with around 600 ponds (there were 2000 ponds previously) that were created by monks in the 11th/12th century for fish farming. They are connected by a system of ditches and are fed solely by rainfall. At this altitude, such a historically grown pond landscape is unique.

In the land of 1000 ponds there are also 1000 things to discover... What a beautiful landscape.