Czoło (Giant Mountains)
| Czoło | ||
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 The Czoło from the southeast. In the foreground: buildings of the former WOP brigades on the border pass |
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| height | 1269 m npm | |
| location | Poland / Czech Republic border | |
| Mountains | Giant Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 45 '19 " N , 15 ° 48' 58" E | |
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| rock | Gneiss , mica slate | |
The Czoło is a mountain in the eastern part of the Giant Mountains on the Czech-Polish border.
location
The summit is at the end of the Schmiedeberger ridge , the eastern continuation of the Silesian Giant Mountains ridge .
The mountain, which also bears the German name "Stirnberg", is the so-called winter summit of Skalny Stół (Czech. Tabule , German: Tafelstein ), with which it is connected in the west by a flat ridge. The northern slope rises above the Ochsenberg and the Hirschberg Valley (Polish: Kotlina Jeleniogórska ), the southern slope above the valley of the Little Aupa (Czech: Malá Úpa ). The south-eastern slope falls towards the Czech-Polish road border crossing Przełęcz Okraj (Czech. Pomezní Boudy , German. Grenzbaudenpass ).
Nearby peaks
| Izbica | Wołowa Góra | Rudnik |
| Skalny Stół |
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Sulica |
| Haida | Dzwonkówka |
Hydrology
About 800 m northwest of the pass, less than a hundred meters below the summit, the source of the Kleine Aupa rises on the southern slope at 1,180 m above sea level. The eastern slopes are drained via the Jedlica (German Iselbach or Eglitz ) a tributary of the Lomnica . The water on the northern slope flows into the Malina (German Forstlangwasser or Hofgrund ), which in turn is a tributary of the Jedlica. The named waters belong to the river system Oder - Baltic Sea.
Flora and fauna
The Schmiedeberger Kamm, also forest ridge, is wooded up to the summit; the Czoło is not a scenic mountain. Although the spruce monocultures established in the 20th century are also predominant here, attempts are being made to restore the original mixed forests of beech , fir and spruce and, in smaller quantities, mountain ash and maple . Bird species can already be found on the Ochsenberg which are more typical for higher elevations in the Giant Mountains, e.g. B. the bullfinch and carmine finch , of the mammals alpine shrew , swamp and earth vole are mentioned.
Rocks and minerals
The structure of the mountain consists of metamorphic rocks , quartz slate, amphibolite , gneiss and mainly mica slate , the bedrock of the garnets typical of Bohemian folk jewelry . The Schmiedeberger Kamm area has long been known for its rich gemstone deposits .
Tourism and nature protection
The Czoło lies in the area of the Karkonoski Park Narodowy (KPN) in Poland and in the Czech Republic in the Krkonošský národní park (KRNAP). There are paved hiking trails on both sides of the border that cannot be left for nature conservation reasons.
▬ With yellow markings, a path from Schmiedeberg continues to Tafelstein.
▬ Marked in red, the Path of Polish-Czech Friendship leads along the southern slope, which ends at the Grenzbauden Pass.
▬ A blue marked path leads from the Okraj along the state border over the summit of the Czoło to the Owl Pass ( Przełęcz Sowia in Polish, Soví sedlo or Můstek in Czech) and further, below the Schneekoppe , to Karpacz .
Below the summit, at 1,200 m above sea level, there is a take-off point for paragliders , which is very popular with pilots because of the considerable difference in altitude and the resulting long flight routes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tisícovky - Czech mountains
- ↑ Miloš Kužvart (ed.): Ložiska nerudních surovin . Univerzita Karlova, Praha 1983, pp. 116-117
- ↑ Page of the KARKONOSZE PARAGLIDING CLUB