Boží hora
| Boží hora | ||
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 The Boží hora |
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| height | 527 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Friedeberger hill country | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 18 '37 " N , 17 ° 6' 44" E | |
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| rock | granitic pluton | |
| particularities | Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sorrows | |
The Boží hora (German church mountain , also Gotthausberg ) is with a height of 527 m nm the highest mountain of the Friedeberger hill country ( Žulovská pahorkatina ) in the Czech Republic. It is located in the area of the town of Žulová in the Okres Jeseník and is a place of pilgrimage. A way of the cross leads from Žulová up the mountain.
location
The wooded mountain rises to the east above the town of Žulová opposite the confluence of the Stříbrný potok in the Vidnavka . Immediately to the north is the Borový vrch ( Kienberg , 476 m nm). Beyond the Vidnavka valley lie in the southwest of the Hadí vrch ( Salberg , 422 m nm), to the west of the Dvorský vrch (459 m nm) and in the northwest of the Lánský vrch ( Hubenberg , 422 m nm) and the Kaní hora ( Hutberg , 476 m nm) . The Plavný potok rises at the eastern foot of the mountain - a tributary to the Černý potok .
Surrounding villages are Žlíbek in the north, Dolni Dvůr and Černá Voda in the east, Andělské Domky in the southeast, Starost and Vápenná in the south, Žulová in the west and Tomíkovice in the northwest.
Pilgrimage mountain
According to the Gurschdorf parish chronicle, a portrait of Mary is said to have been attached to a pole on the mountain top in the 12th century. At the beginning of the 18th century, the constantly renewed portrait drew more and more pilgrims to the mountain, so that a wooden pilgrimage chapel was built between 1712 and 1713. In the course of the Josephine reforms , the chapel was lifted and closed in 1784; the image of Mary was transferred to the Gurschdorf Church in 1785 and was given its new place on the main altar. At the end of the 18th century, the picture began to be collected for the construction of a church in Friedeberg . 400 guilders share capital was deposited as the property of the Marienkapelle on the church hill, the remaining part was used for the construction of a new main altar in Gurschdorf. In the 19th century, pilgrimages to the church hill were resumed. On November 25, 1833, the wooden Gurschdorf church burned down, and the old image of the Virgin from the top of the church was also lost.
After the chapel was broken into and devastated in 1864, it was rededicated in 1865. Because the chapel was in poor condition, plans were made in 1866 to build a new church on the mountain, which was thwarted by the outbreak of the German War . In 1877 a way of the cross was laid. In the years 1878-1880, the Breslau prince-bishop Heinrich Förster had a small pilgrimage church built on the summit, which was consecrated to the Sorrowful Virgin Mary. The plans for the neo-Gothic building made of coarse granite stones were provided by the Viennese master builder Friedrich Schmidt , who was a friend of the bishop and who also designed the Krautenwalder Church at the same time . The pictures of the Stations of the Cross were restored in 1893 by the Viennese painter Bauch. In 1903 the Saxon queen widow Carola visited the pilgrimage church. Other visitors included the Silesian poet Joseph von Eichendorff . In 1905, the Georgshaus hermitage named after Cardinal Georg von Kopp was built near the church ( Jiřího dům ). The Georgshaus was demolished in the 1950s.
The pilgrimages take place on the day of St. Cyrill and Method and on Mary's Day .
Quarries
Abandoned quarries can be found on the north and south-east slopes of the mountain. Other quarries, some of which are still in operation, lie around the mountain. Friedeberger granite and Hutberg diorite were mined . The former quarry on the south-eastern slope is considered an important geological site because of the exposure of the contact between marble and granite. The undisturbed contact zone consists of a combination of the minerals garnet - hessonite , wollastonite , epidote , diopside and vesuvianite as well as scheelite in places .
Picture gallery
Boží hora peak with the church
Mary on the Way of the Cross
Pilgrimage church
German-language information board at the church
Quarry on the Boží hora
View from Boží hora to Žulová
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