Eagle Mountains
| Eagle Mountains | ||
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 View from the Deschneyer Großkoppe over the Eagle Mountains |
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| Highest peak | Deschneyer Großkoppe ( 1115 m nm ) | |
| location | Czech Republic, Poland | |
| part of | Sudeten | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 18 ' N , 16 ° 24' E | |
The Eagle Mountains ( Czech , Polish Góry Orlickie ) is an elongated mountain range of over 1000 m in the Czech Republic . A small part of the mountain range in the northeast is in Poland . It used to be known as the Erlitz Mountains (derived from the upper reaches of the Wilder Adler ), Grunwalder Mountains (derived from Grunwald ) or Mensegebirge (derived from Hohe Mense ).
geography
The 50 kilometers long and between three and eight kilometers wide mountains are part of the Sudetes . The strike direction is northwest to southeast. It begins in the northwest in Olešnice v Orlických Horách ( Gießhübel ) and ends in the southeast in Králíky ( Grulich ). Its north-eastern foot in the Wild Eagle Valley forms the border between the Czech Republic and Poland and thus at the same time the demarcation to the north-east parallel Habelschwerdter Mountains ( Góry Bystrzyckie ), in the northern part the valley of the Reinerzer Weistritz ( Bystrzyca Dusznicka ) separates these mountains.
To the north is the Cretaceous Heuscheuergebirge ( Góry Stołowe or Hejšovina ) with its striking sandstone cliffs . In the south-east, beyond the Grulich Pass (also known as Mittelwalde Pass , Przełęcz Międzyleska in Polish ) between Králíky and Boboszów ( Bobischau ) is the Glatzer Snow Mountains ( Masyw Śnieżnika or Králický Sněžník ).
The eagle foothills and the Moravian basin connect to the south.
tourism
In this area there are numerous sights such as churches, monasteries, castles and palaces. The Eagle Mountains offer tourists well-developed hiking and biking trails and numerous ski trails in winter . One of the well-known winter sports resorts is the Polish destination ( Grunwald ) with over 20 ski lifts .
Refuges
population
Until 1945, the Eagle Mountains was inhabited mostly German, the population was due to the Benes decrees dispossessed and from their home sold . Subsequently, many new citizens from the Czech interior, Czech repatriants , Slovaks and Roma moved to the region. However, the previous population density was no longer reached.
Most famous mountains of the Eagle Mountains
from northwest to southeast
- Hohe Mense (Polish Orlica , Czech Vrchmezí ), 1084 m
- Sattlerkoppe ( Sedloňovský kopec ), 1050 m
- Scherlich ( Šerlich ), 1027 m
- Deschneyer Kleinkoppe ( Malá Deštná ), 1090 m
- Deschneyer Großkoppe ( Velká Deštná ), 1115 m
- Vřesník, 1097 m
- Orel, 1099 m
- Kreiselberg ( Koruna ) 1101 m
- Schnittberg ( Homole ), 1000 m
- Johnskoppe ( Tetřevec ), 1043 m
- Dürrer Berg ( Suchy vrch ), 995 m
- Mückenberg ( Komáří vrch ), 992 m
- Ernestinenberg ( Anenský vrch ), 991 m
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