Gírová
| Gírová / Girowa | ||
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| height | 840 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Jablunkau mountainous region | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 31 '54 " N , 18 ° 47' 59" E | |
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| particularities | highest mountain in the Jablunkau mountainous region | |
The Gírová (Polish and German Girowa ) is a mountain on the border triangle of the Czech Republic , Slovakia and Poland . With a height of 840 m nm , it is the highest mountain in the Jablunkau mountainous region in the Beskids .
location
The mountain rises five kilometers southeast of the town of Jablunkov . To the north lies the Olsa valley with the municipalities of Písek and Bukovec . The state border with Poland runs at the eastern foot, on this side of the mountain are the places Hrčava , Jaworzynka and Łacki. In the south, below the mountain, the border with Slovakia runs along. On the Slovak side, the valley of the Čierňanka joins the villages of Čierne and Svrčinovec . To the west, in the valley of the Ošelnice brook, lies the municipality of Mosty u Jablunkova . The main European watershed runs over the mountain .
Secondary peaks of the Gírová are the Komorovský grůň (732 m) in the east and the Studeničný (717 m) in the southwest.
At the southwestern foot of the Gírová is the Jablunka Pass with a railway tunnel. The European route 75 also leads over the pass . Four kilometers southeast of the summit is the border stone of the three-country triangle.
history
Since the Middle Ages, the Copper Road from Silesia over the Jablunka Pass to Hungary has led through the Ošelnice valley below the mountain.
Because of its location above the strategically important pass, the Girowa has been used as a survey point since the 19th century. Albrecht von Sydow mentions the mountain at 3048 feet above sea level in his remarks on a journey in 1827 through the Beskids via Krakow and Wielicska to the Central Carpathians (1830) as one of the highest peaks of the Beskids and the " Babia Gura Mountains " on. Malchus also gave the mountain in 1833 in the manual of military geography as 3048 feet above sea level. In the 1850 yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute , a trigonometric point at 2641 Viennese feet above sea level is shown on the top of the Girowa mountain, half an hour west of the village of Jaworzinka .
The tourist development of the Gírová began in the 20th century. On July 9, 1932, the Czech Tourist Club (KČT) opened a tourist hut east of the summit (Horská chata Gírová).
particularities
On the west side of the peak lies the Čertovy mlýny sandstone group. There are two caves on the north slope.
Below Studeničný, on the slope of the mountain near Mosty u Jablunkova, there is a winter sports area with several ski lifts and a bobsled run.
From the summit there is a wide view over the Slovak Beskid foothills to Mala Fatra .
