Piramida (Pyramid Hill)

Piramida (Pyramid Hill) in Maribor, Slovenia

The Pyramid is a low hill in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. It is a popular excursion spot, affording a good view of the city. An ascent takes 15 to 30 minutes.
Piramida Hill is a 386 metre high town hill, which rises above the city of Maribor. The most easy is accessible from the City Park from where the marked path leads us past vine leaves. After about half an hour of easy walking we can enjoy in a wonderful view of the whole town and to the surrounding area. Piramida is a favourite excursion sight for the local people and other visitors throughout all the year.
On the hill was a castle until the year 1784, which was named Marburg or Marchpurg. It was built in the beginning of the 12th century by the noble Spanheim family for protection the Hungarians. In 1528 the castle was burned down. It was renovated in the Renaissance style around the year 1560, then in 1790 it was finally pulled down. A stone pyramid was built from the remains of the building materials. This pyramid also gave the hill its name – Piramida.
The only remains of the castle were a well without a rim and a trench with a steep embankment. At the top of the rampart is a classicist chapel with a stone statue of Mary from the year 1821. The inscription inside the chapel tells us that in the year 1821 lightening destroyed the original pyramid. The chapel was raised in a memory of the location of the castle by the Count Henrik Brandis.

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The Pyramid (Slovene: Piramida) is a low hill (altitude 386 m) in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. It is a popular excursion spot, affording a good view of the city. An ascent takes 15-30 minutes.
Until 1784 the hill was the site of the Upper Maribor Castle (Slovene: Mariborski grad, German: Schloss Marchpurg / Marburg) The castle was demolished around 1790; in the following decade its debris was used to construct a stone pyramid-like obelisk, which lent the hill its current name. In 1821 the pyramid was replaced with a chapel containing a statue of the Virgin Mary. There is a vineyard on the slopes below the chapel.

Visible remains of the castle include defensive groundworks and an unimproved well.

Piramida

Vzemite si pol ure časa in se iz Mestnega parka povzpnite na 386 metrov visok mestni grič, od koder boste lahko iz mesta, kjer je nekoč stal mariborski grad, uživali ob čudovitem pogledu na pobočja vinske trte ter še naprej na celotno mesto. Tako je Piramida priljubljena izletniška točka Mariborčanov in drugih obiskovalcev.
Kako do vrha?

Pot, ki se dviga nad Mestnim parkom po južnem pobočju griča, se bohoti z vinsko trto. Navzdol lahko uberete drugo pot ali pa pot nadaljujete po grebenu proti zahodu in sprehod razširite v nekoliko daljši rekreativni pohod.

Na poti lahko srečate nadobudne kolesarje in jahače, med brajdami pa tudi kakšno žival. Vinorodni griči namreč nudijo ugodne naravne danosti različnim živalskim vrstam; srečate lahko srne, zajce, različne plazilce, fazane in ptice pevke, metulje in žuželke pa tudi lisice!
O gradu in kapeli

Grad so zgradili Spanheimi v začetku 12. stoletja za obrambo pred Madžari. Bil je grad v obmejni Dravski marki in po njem so naselbina, trg in mesto dobili ime Marchpurg oz. Marburg. Leta 1528 je grad pogorel. Okoli leta 1560 so ga renesančno obnovili, nato pa do leta 1790 porušili. Iz ostankov materiala so postavili kamnito piramido, ki je dala griču tudi ime, od gradu pa sta ostala le okop s strmimi nasipom in vodnjak brez venca. Vrh okopa stoji klasicistična kapela iz leta 1821 s kamnitim Marijinim kipom. Napis na spominski plošči v kapeli priča o tem, da je prvotno piramido leta 1821 uničila strela, grof Henrik Brandis pa je dal postaviti kapelo v spomin na lokacijo starega gradu.

Grič so pred imenom Piramida poimenovanj različno: od mons castri do der Purgperg v 13. in 14. stoletju.

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