Humperky
| Humperky | ||
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 Humperky quarry |
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| height | 469 m | |
| location | Pardubický kraj , Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Iron Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 50 '8 " N , 15 ° 59' 55" E | |
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| rock | Slate, hornblende | |
| particularities | extensive quarry | |
The Humperky (German Humberg ) is a mountain of formerly 469 m nm in the Skutečská pahorkatina ( Skutscher hill country ) in the Czech Republic . It is located on the southern outskirts of Skuteč in Okres Chrudim and is largely mined by a quarry. The mountain is regarded as the location of the medieval royal castle "Wyschonis".
geography
The Humperky rises one kilometer south of the center of Skuteč. In the north and east of the mountain is bypassed by the railway line Svitavy - Žďárec u Skutče , at its northwestern foot is the Skuteč train station (formerly Skutsch town ). Other surrounding villages are Lažany in the east, Dolívka in the southeast, Žďárec u Skutče in the southwest and V Lázních in the west. On the hill to the south is the Skuteč field airfield (LKSK).
history
According to tradition, a - probably wooden - castle of Duke Slavník stood on the Humperky in the 10th century . It is believed that there was a royal castle on the mountain in the 13th century. It was there that the meeting between the Bohemian King Ottokar I Přemysl , Duke Leopold , the papal legate Cardinal Gregor von Crescenz, the bishops Andrew of Prague , Robert of Olomouc , John of Neitra and Laurence of Wroclaw and many others took place on the "Berg Scac" Provosts and high representatives of the estates because of the elimination of the interdict that led to the conclusion of a new contract between the Bohemian king and the church on July 2, 1221. On the other hand, Palacký suspects that Staatz Castle was the place of the meeting. The castle "Wyschonis" ( Sebin Wyschonis et Zkuts ), mentioned in a document about the exchange of some castles and settlements with Margrave Friedrich von Meißen among the royal Bohemian possessions together with the town of Skuteč, is regarded as the castle on the Humperky. The castle probably went out at the beginning of the 14th century.
In the first half of the 19th century, remains of masonry were still found under the dam in the fields on the Humperky, and there were no visible ruins.
A quarry was built on the north side of the Humperky in the second half of the 19th century. The rock extracted was used as building material - primarily for road and track construction. When the local railway Zwittau – Polička was extended to the Skutsch station of the Austrian Northwest Railway , gravel from the quarry was used. A siding was laid from the Skutsch-Stadt stop to prepare the quarry.
In the 1950s, intensive quarrying began on the Humperky, and the Burgstall was also completely destroyed. The stationary crusher , newly constructed in 1952 on the mountain stump above the Skuteč-město stop , was modernized several times and could process up to 42 t of rock per hour. The hornblende extracted in the quarry was driven to the crusher in dumpers and transported by conveyor belt to the quarry facilities behind the train station for further processing; the ballast was removed via the siding to the Svitavy – Žďárec u Skutče railway line. Due to the intensive quarrying, the mountain was largely dismantled in the second half of the 20th century. The operation of the crusher led to noise and dust nuisance in the city. After the Velvet Revolution , the quarry was cut back sharply. The operator today is the Granita company , which produces the crushed stone with small mobile crushers. Today only remnants of the dismantled technologies of the former large company can be seen. The various floors of the long-standing quarry are clearly visible, the lowest of which have partially flooded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ the mountain top was completely dismantled
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 246
- ^ Franz Palacky: Bohemia as a hereditary kingdom under the Premyslids: from the year 1197 to 1306 , Prague 1847 pp. 86–87
- ^ Josef Vítězslav Šimák : Český časopis historický Prague 1917 pp. 391–399
- ↑ https://www.soupispamatek.cz/arl-kcz/sk/detail-kcz_un_auth-0002493-Hrad-Humperky/
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 246