The best city hikes and walks around Dam Pirk

very important date and a memorial

The fountain is located on the market square in front of the town hall. The beautiful figures in the center of the fountain and the cute sparrows on the fountain's rim tell a local legend with plaques: +++ "One day, a strange fellow settled in Oelsnitz. He was tall, gaunt, and had a dull complexion. He also knew all kinds of remedies and had clairvoyant abilities. After that, things became increasingly strange in Oelsnitz. Finally, the citizens suspected the stranger of being a sorcerer. The council had him arrested. At the trial, he was proven to have practiced sorcery, and he was certain to be burned to death. News of the man's arrest and conviction reached as far as Bavaria, Bohemia, and, of course, the neighboring town of Plauen. He had already caused mischief everywhere, and so the crowd on the day of the execution was large. The executioners quickly brought the stranger to the pyre and tied him to the stake. But lighting the fire presented problems. Wherever the fire was lit, it also went out again. Now the Condemned to the gallows. Amid shouts and curses from the onlookers, he climbed the ladder. At the top, he turned around and looked gloomily at the onlookers. They, completely silent with fear, didn't dare move. "So quiet all of a sudden, you sparrows?" he asked, flung his hat into the crowd, and all the Oelsnitz citizens were transformed into sparrows. He let out a shrill shout toward the Plauen residents who had arrived. The people disappeared, and in their place, a gusty wind blew, roaring with full force into the sparrows. Soon, the first of them lay dead on the ground. The city officials begged the stranger to lift the spell; they would spare him his life in return. But he just laughed and vanished into thin air. For a while, total chaos reigned on Oelsnitz's gallows hill. The Plauen wind swept between headless, hand-wringing judges and screeching Oelsnitz sparrows. Then a A raven croaked on the top rung of the ladder. When peace had returned, it croaked: "Sparrows and wind, so it was and so it is until the children's children." The haunting was lifted, and the raven flew away.

The building seen here was constructed between 1861 and 1864. The building was completely renovated and restored in 1990. The bell tower can be seen from afar as you enter the city. The building adorns the very spacious market square and is complemented by a fabulous fountain in front of it.

A small square was created at the corner of Gartenstrasse and Schlossstrasse, with a Japanese cherry tree as its focal point. A continuous bench runs along the perimeter in a semicircle. The tree was donated in 2020.

Memorial to the victims of the Franco-Prussian War. A simple obelisk with a fence.

Great view from up here.

The Oelsnitz post milepost, erected in 1725, was lost in the chaos following the devastating city fire of 1859 and was re-erected as a faithful replica in 2018 on Grabenstraße. The milepost was made by the Ballmann stonemasonry from Cotta sandstone. The new milepost serves as a meeting point and starting point for guided city and hiking tours, as well as stagecoach tours along the old postal route from Leipzig to Cheb (Czech Republic).

Here Plauen shows its romantic side.