Stamp point 189 / Große Teufelsmühle

The highest point of the Ramberg is the Viktorshöhe (581 m above sea level), on which the “Große Teufelsmühle” and the “Kleine Teufelsmühle” are located. The name Viktorshöhe goes back to Prince Viktor Friedrich von Anhalt (1700 — 1765), who owned a hunting lodge below the mountain. 

The sur­face mon­u­ment is a group of gran­ite rocks on which the so-called wool sack weath­er­ing is clear­ly vis­i­ble. The inter­ac­tion of phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal process­es results in round­ed-edged blocks of rock that lie stacked on top of each oth­er like pil­lows, mat­tress­es or even wool sacks 

A miller made a pact with the dev­il. The dev­il was to build him a mill on the Ram­berg in just one night. In return, the miller was to pledge his soul to the dev­il for 30 years. How­ev­er, as the miller was afraid of the dev­il, he removed an impor­tant stone from the build­ing short­ly before com­ple­tion. The dev­il became furi­ous, tore the mill down again and killed the miller with one of the boulders. 

From the hik­ing park­ing lot near the spa gar­dens in Friedrichs­brunn, you can reach the Vik­tor­shöhe via the sign­post­ed Ram­berg­er Höhen­weg and can make the hike via the Bergrat-Müller-Teich HWN 190 a cir­cu­lar route.

Silhouette of trees and hills at night