Blaník

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Blaník
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height 638  m nm
location Central Bohemia , Czech Republic
Coordinates 49 ° 38 '32 "  N , 14 ° 52' 22"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '32 "  N , 14 ° 52' 22"  E
Blaník (Czech Republic)
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The Blaník is a legendary pilgrimage mountain in the Czech Republic near the municipality Louňovice in Central Bohemia , consisting of two peaks, the Velký Blaník (German: Great Blaník ) and the Malý Blaník (German: Little Blaník , 564  m nm ). In 1981 the mountain and its surroundings were declared a protected landscape area.

Observation tower

Lookout tower on the Great Blaník

On the mountain there is a wooden observation tower built in the early 1940s (height 30 meters). It has the shape of a Hussite tower. A lookout tower from 1895 previously stood on the same spot. The view extends over most of Bohemia , sometimes as far as the Bohemian Forest . The river Blanice runs at the western foot of the Velký Blaník .

Legend

According to legend, the last Hussite fighters retired to the mountain . The sleeping knights, under the guidance of St. Wenceslaus , would wake up again when the fatherland was in dire straits and liberate their homeland.

Due to the great importance of the mountain for the Czech nation, Bedřich Smetana gave the sixth and last symphonic poem from his cycle Mein Vaterland ( Czech: “Má vlast”) the title Blaník . In 1920 Leoš Janáček created the Blaník Ballad ( Balada blanická ), a symphonic poem for an orchestra.

The painter Julius Mařák and the writer Alois Jirásek also used the legend of Mount Blaník and the knights sleeping in it in their works.

The amateur artist and recreational stonemason Stanislav Rolínek (1902–1931) created some underground sandstone sculptures of the legendary sleeping Blaník knights (Czech: jeskyně Blanických rytířů) 60 kilometers east of here, in the Moravian town of Kunštát , in the Moravian town of Rudka near Kunštát Mayor František Burian († 1943). The spade room there (ready room) of the underground warriors became a national tourist attraction. Rolínek's work remained unfinished because of his untimely death from tuberculosis.

Web links

Commons : Blaník  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Blaník. In: Travel Tips. From TravelGuide.CZ, accessed January 20, 2019.
  2. Southeast Central Bohemia. September 28, 2007. From IrisCrr.cz, accessed January 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Kunštát . On Suedmaehren.info, accessed on January 20, 2019.
  4. ^ Grotto of the Blaník Knights - artificial sandstone cave - Kunštát. On Suedmaehren.info, accessed on January 20, 2019.