Borówczane Skały (Giant Mountains)

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Borówczane Skały
Bräuerhansen's stones
Basic geotopic data
Geotope type Granite outcrop
Terrain height 1000 to 1050 m
Size (L × W × H) approx. 250 x 90 x 12 m
location Lower Silesia , Poland
Geological unit (s) Silesian ridge → Giant Mountains
Municipality / city Szklarska Poręba ( Schreiberhau )
Coordinates 50 ° 47 '41.9 "  N , 15 ° 32' 26.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '41.9 "  N , 15 ° 32' 26.6"  E

Borówczane Skały (German Bräuerhansen's stones ) is the Polish name for a rock formation made of granite in the western part of the Silesian Ridge of the Giant Mountains in Poland .

location

The Bräuerhausen stones consist of a large group of individual granite rocks up to 12 meters high. They are located on the slope ledge on the northern slope of the Veilchenstein (Polish Łabski Szczyt , Czech Violík - 1472 m) at an altitude of 1000 to 1050 meters above sea level and extend over a length of approx. 300 to 400 meters.

Emergence

The rocks are, like the rock wall that forms the summit of the Violet Stone, a typical example of a so-called frost cliff. It arises from the increasing frost weathering at the edge of a cart or its preliminary stage, the leveling niche , as here, above the frost carrier hole ( Kocioł Szrenicki ). Like all granite outcrops in the Giant Mountains, they bear pronounced traces of so-called wool sack weathering , which is mainly responsible for the strongly rounded corners and edges of the individual boulders.

Names

The Polish name refers to the blueberries that grow lush between the boulders. It's more difficult with the German expression. On two maps from Meinhold Verlagsgesellschaft from 1940 the spelling “Bräuerha u sens Steine” can be found. However, this seems to be a mistake, because it is difficult to distinguish the two letters in the Sütterlin script . On older maps showing the Giant Mountains or the area around Schreiberhau, an “n” is used instead of an “u”.

Tourism and nature protection

Szklarska Poreba ( Schreiberhau ) is just over 3 km as the crow flies. Coming from there, a yellow marked hiking trail passes nearby. But the area itself is not developed for tourism, there is no way to get here. Many birds have their breeding grounds between the stones and rare lichens grow on the rocks. Although it is located outside the Karkonoski Park Narodowy National Park (KPN), the park administration, which is also responsible for this buffer zone, which is designated as a Natura 2000 protected area, is at least partially limiting the increasing "consumption of nature" by tourism. Sport climbers have already discovered the rock towers for themselves.

Nearby, about 800 meters southwest, are the Kukułcze Skały ( cuckoo stones ) directly on the hiking trail with the yellow marking. Following the path it is only half a kilometer to the "Schronisko PTTK Pod Łabskim Szczytem" (Old Silesian Shack).

From here different paths go uphill to the red marked Sudeten main hiking trail . The steep path in the south winds in bends up to the “Česká budka” crossroads. In a south-westerly direction it goes to "Mokra Przelecz" ( wet saddle - 1288 m) and the rock formations Twarożnik ( quark stones ) and Trzy Świnki ( pebbles ), approx. 1.7 km away . To the southeast, a path leads below the Veilchenstein to the Rübezahlkanzel ( Czarcia Ambona - 1497 m), a little more than 2.1 km above the Śnieżne Kotły ( snow pits ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b OpenStreetMap
  2. ↑ Alexander Stahr, Thomas Hartmann, Landscapes and Landscape Elements in the High Mountains, Chapter 9.1
  3. ↑ Meinhold's hiking map of the Giant Mountains or the winter sports map from the same publisher
  4. ^ Map of the Giant Mountains (Verlag Alexander Köhler, Dresden)
  5. ↑ The area around Schreiberhau (from a travel guide published by the von Griebens publishing house, Berlin)
  6. ↑ Borówczane Skały (Polish side)
  7. ↑ Information on the climbing routes (Polish page)