Mount Oybin, where Caspar David Friedrich was

Описание

Painting

The picturesque ruins on the Oybin with the cemetery of the village of Oybin located there were a favourite motif of numerous Romantic painters, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Carl Blechen and Adrian Ludwig Richter. However, they are by no means at the beginning of this tradition; as early as the 18th century, Oybin was frequently depicted by renowned artists such as Johann Alexander Thiele, Adrian Zingg and Johann Philipp Veith.

Settlement and castle history
Prehistory until (1300)
The first archaeological evidence of a Bronze Age settlement on Mount Oybin dates back to the 11th and 12th centuries B.C. Settlement in the Slavic period has been proven on the basis of a few individual fragments. The earliest traces of construction date back to the 13th century A.D. This century also saw the first documented destruction by the town of Zittau in 1291. The castle was used as a base for raids by robber barons. This is also the first documented mention of Oybin (Moybin). The castle was soon rebuilt.

Video by Peter Siegfried Krug