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Oelsa Forest Stadium – Barbarakapelle Ruins loop from Oelsa

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Saxony

Oelsa Forest Stadium – Barbarakapelle Ruins loop from Oelsa

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Oelsa Forest Stadium – Barbarakapelle Ruins loop from Oelsa

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3.71km

70m

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Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 15, 2026

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Dippoldiswalder Heide

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86 m

Kostenloser Waldparkplatz

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Large hiking car park from which you can experience wonderful adventures in the Dippserheide

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Oelsa Forest Stadium in Rabenau-Oelsa, located in the Dippoldiswalde Heath, with an adjacent forest parking area.

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Historic forest stadium with a grass pitch, spacious restrooms, and a community room. Built over 50 years ago by dedicated athletes from Oelsa and the surrounding area through their own efforts.

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264 m

Break bench Dippoldiswalder Heide landscape conservation area

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305 m

Gemeindegrenzstein

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1.17 km

Barbarakapelle Ruins

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The Barbarakapelle is located on Klausenweg in the Dippoldiswalder Heide, and bears the name of the patron saint of miners. Originally it was named as Klausenkirche. The lord of the castle Sigismund von Maltitz, who owned Dippoldiswalde, had this chapel built around 1500 (he himself died in 1525). It served as a polling place for the polling drivers from Dippoldiswalde to Altzella. In 1539 the brother of the builder, Bishop Johann VIII von Maltitz, had it destroyed out of concern about secret meetings of the supporters of the Reformation after the last chaplain had called the miners to Reformed worship. According to a legend, the church servant Antonius lived in a hermitage above the Antonius fountain next to the chapel. The Barber River rises from the latter well and flows into the Oelsabach below.

In 1814 August Schumann reported in his Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony, "On the way to the village of Oelsa, in the middle of the forest, 6 ells high and 1 ½ ells thick walls are the ruins of a chapel of St. Barbara"

The nave is 13 meters wide and 16 meters long, which is connected to the east by the altar room with the dimensions of 6.60 meters. The artillery Lieutenant Otto Rothmaler made a first drawing of the chapel in 1856, and in 1881 it was partially rebuilt. The altar of the chapel was taken by the Maltitzers to Bohemia in 1539, which recent historical research found out. The Gothic curtain window in the chancel has been preserved as a remnant of the structural decoration. Today a service takes place in this simple chapel every year on Ascension Day.

Source: seifersdorf.de

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