Zlatý Chlum
| Zlatý Chlum | ||
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| height | 875 m | |
| location | Olomoucký kraj , Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Jeseníky | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 14 '17 " N , 17 ° 14' 15" E | |
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The Zlatý Chlum (German Goldkoppe ) is a mountain with 875 m height in the Jeseníky Mountains in the Czech Republic . It rises northeast of the town of Jeseník above the valley of the Bělá . Other neighboring places are Česká Ves and Chebzí. On the top there is the Freiwaldauer Warte (Frývaldovská stráž), a round observation tower 26 m high.
history
The name Goldkoppe goes back to the gold and silver mining of the Fugger family of merchants in the 15th and 16th centuries. Until the 19th century there were unsuccessful attempts to get gold mining going again.
With the founding of the Moravian-Silesian Sudeten Mountains Association (MSSGV) on April 26, 1881, the tourism development of the surrounding mountains began, initially with activities relating to road construction and the writing of tourist literature along with the publication of a magazine. The construction of the first mountain huts began later, followed by observation towers. In one year the association already had 950 members in 10 local sections. One of the most active was the Freiwaldauer section, which planned the construction of a lookout tower on the Goldkoppe. The construction project was developed by Eduard Zelenka, the director of the Saubsdorf stone school . The builders Alois Nitsche and Franz Gröger were commissioned with the construction sum of 8501 guilders and they began on August 8, 1898 with the building.
The building material, the natural stones and the sand were extracted on the spot, with some of the sand being transported from a sand dump. When selecting the bricks, attention was paid to quality and they were bought from the brickworks in Tschauschwitz (today Suszkowice in Poland). After 13 months of construction work, on September 3, 1899, the observation tower was put into operation by the co-founder of the MSSGV and school director, Adolf Kettner. This observation tower is, next to the one on the Bischofskoppe with 18 m, the second tower that is still in operation in the Sudetes . The observation towers on the Glatzer Schneeberg with a height of 33.5 m and on the Altvater with a height of 32.5 m are no longer in operation.
view
The Zlatý Chlum observation tower offers a view of Jeseník and the surrounding area. In the east, the Bischofskoppe (888 m) can be seen with its observation tower, which stands on the Czech-Polish border. To the east, the Querberg (Příčný vrch; 975 m) and the Bear Hills (Medvědská hornatina) with the Urlich ( Orlík ; 1204 m) stretch to the Altvater (Praděd; 1492 m). In the south you can see the Little Father (Malý Děd; 1355 m) and behind the seamounts (Jezerniky) and the Red Mountain Pass are the Red Mountain ( Červená hora ; 1333 m), Glaseberg (Keprník; 1423 m) and Hochschar ( Šerák ; 1351 m).
The Grulich Snow Mountains ( Králický Sněžník ; 1423 m) follow and in the west the Reichensteiner Mountains (Rychlebskě hory) with the Ficht (Smrk; 1125 m) can be seen. In the direction of Gemärke (Na Pomezí; 576 m) and Graefenberg (Lázně Jeseník) the Brunnenberg (Studniční vrch; 992 m), the Falkenberg (Sokolí vrch; 967 m) and the Křemenáč (735 m) emerge. In the north you can see the Biele valley and the sand pits of Písečná (Sandhübel), the place Saubsdorf and the plains of Poland.