Everywhere get out of the maintained forest grey-brown giants of snadstone; some of them stays bald and silhouetteful as a slim tower in the landscape, thus in the East the enormous "Bloßstock" and its delicate neighbour the "Brosinnadel"; others of them carry hotols or whole forests on their summit plates: thus in the west the lily stone and the Pope stone. One of this board mountains, the king stone, was a German castle, 360 meters above the river Elbe - a never conquered nature bulwarks still another belt jagged bricked and small towers. At the sight of this roamtic frotress we thik of laughing the fact that their only conquestor was the grandpa of all climbers in 1848. Sebastian Abratzky was the name of the courageous one an his profession a chimney sweep. He wanted to make - according to modern frist risers kind - to make his name unforgettably. By the way he invited climbing in sandstone. He went to the North wall of the sanctified frotress, climbed barefoot according all rules of climbing art a chimney and threw his boots over the wall inside for frightening sign guards. He was arrested, but he become a hero.

G.A. Kuhfal

"Saxonia switzerland as an climbing area" 1908