Diablak
| Diablak | ||
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 Summit area |
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| height | 1725 m npm | |
| location | Poland , Slovakia | |
| Mountains | Beskids , Carpathians | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 34 '23 " N , 19 ° 31' 46" E | |
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Diablak , German Teufelspitze , is a 1725 meter high mountain in Poland and Slovakia in the Saybuscher Beskids in the massif of Babia Góra , the highest point of which it represents.
The summit is on Polish and Slovak territory. The slopes are covered with rubble. From the top there is a wide panoramic view from the Tatras in the southeast to the Silesian Beskids in the northwest.
The sunrises and sunsets that can be observed from the summit, especially in July, are legendary. Often in the morning the summit is above a sea of clouds and only the Tatras in the southeast is visible, which breaks through the cloud cover. With very good visibility, on the other hand, you can even see the Sudetes , the Heiligkreuzgebirge , the Sankt Annaberg and Czestochowa . So the view stretches from Poland to Slovakia to the Czech Republic .
location
The mountain is located in the Babia Góra National Park . The main European watershed between the Black Sea ( Danube ) and the Baltic Sea ( Vistula ) runs over the mountain . Several hiking trails lead up the mountain, including the gentle red marked Beskydy main hiking trail and the steep yellow marked academic trail from the Markowe-Szczawiny hut .
Surname
The scree peak owes its name to a legend according to which the devil built a castle for a robber captain at night here. When this was almost finished, a rooster crowed at dawn and the castle collapsed, the robber captain was buried alive under the boulders. You can still hear him hitting the rocks with his club at night. This is where its older name Diabli Zamek (German: Teufelsburg ) comes from .
history
The summit must have always been climbed by shepherds. The first ascent is guaranteed in 1782 by the Polish mathematician Jowin Fryderyk Bystrzycki. In 1806 Joseph Habsburg was on the summit. At this point in time the first refuge was built on the summit, followed by a second in 1852, which, however, was badly damaged in a storm in 1854 and has almost completely fallen into disrepair since the 1930s ( Losertha Hut ). In 1894, the Beskydy Association established the Academic Path to the summit. In 1912 Lenin climbed the mountain.
In February 1935, four skiers who were not recognized by the snowstorm froze to death in front of the refuge in a snow storm. The last body could not be recovered until May.
Since there is almost always a strong wind on the summit, tourists have built a scree wall about ten meters long and two meters high so that they can enjoy the view from the slipstream.
