Kaiserkrone

The Kaiserkrone is an eroded remnant of a mesa, which rises together with another mesa, the Zirkelstein, not far from the village of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna above the Elbe River valley in Saxon Switzerland. At its southern foot are several sandstone rocks of a characteristic shape, which gave the mountain its name. The Saxon Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich called them Kaiserkrone in his sketchbook and later used them in his famous painting “The Wanderer Above the Sea of ​​Fog”.