Jánské Kameny
Jánské Kameny (German: Johannisstein ) is a 604 m high hill, on the summit of which there is a formation of basalt rocks, the Johannis stones. It is located in the Lusatian Mountains on the Saxon-Bohemian border near the Hain district of the health resort Oybin and northeast of the Krompach district of Valy .
history
Since Upper Lusatia was ceded in 1635, the border between Saxony and Bohemia has been running over the Johannisstein, whose summit belongs to Bohemia.
An inn was built on the hill in 1880 on the Bohemian side, where a viewing platform was built for a year. When the inn became too small due to the great popularity, additional buildings were built, the Johannissteinbaude. The hut developed into a popular excursion site and was also used to rest for hikes in the neighboring high forest .
Since 1927 it has been operated as a mountain hotel with an event hall. Other smaller buildings, such as the Bohemian Josefshöhe or the German Schönfeldbaude, were built on the northern slope.
After the Second World War , the expulsion and the closure of the borders, the building complex remained unused on the Czech side. The new Czech residents of Valy had no need for an excursion restaurant on the border. While many of the surrounding Bohemian buildings, such as those on the Rabenstein, Hochwald and Lausche, burned down during this time, the Johannissteinbaude was preserved. But it was falling into disrepair.
Hain, located on the northern slope of the mountain, was a popular holiday resort in the Zittau Mountains even after the war and there was interest in using the structure directly behind the border.
After negotiations between the GDR and ČSSR , the Czechoslovak side left the former mountain hotel to the "Youth of the GDR" on January 1, 1959 for use as the " Julius Fučík " youth hostel . The house had guests again by the Prague spring and makeshift repairs were carried out. When the borders with Czechoslovakia were closed again in 1968 , the youth hostel was cleared.
The road construction company Silnice Teplice acquired the building in 1968 and used it as a company holiday home. Overdue repairs were not made and parts of the equipment such as stoves, parquet and coffered ceilings were removed instead. After all, the property was too run down and abandoned. Damage to the roof, wind and weather turned the mountain hotel into a ruin and vandals raged inside and tore out the windows themselves.
After 1990, a border crossing was opened at the Johannistein for hikers between Hain and Krompach .
The Johannissteinbaude was privatized, the new owner was not able to pay the taxes, let alone repair the property. In 2001 a new buyer was found who gradually began to renovate the building and use it for residential purposes.
geology
The mountain top consists of a basaltic corridor approx. 700 to 800 meters long, which is up to 5 meters thick and protrudes up to 15 meters. It curves in an east-west direction and forms the border between Germany and the Czech Republic in the summit area . There is also a nepheline - tephrite with horizontal columns. The passage gap is protected as a geological natural monument. The base of the Johannis stone is made up of Oberturon sandstone .
View from Johannisstein to Oybin , Berg Oybin , Scharfenstein and Felsengasse
View from the Johannisstein to the northwest of the Lausche
Johannissteinbaude 2006
Johannisstein-Bauden in Oybin-Hain, on the left the Bohemian house, on the right the Saxon holiday home (2005)
Back: on the left the Saxon house, on the right the Czech building (2013)
Web links
literature
- Meyer's nature guide Upper Lusatia; Meyers Lexikonverlag Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich; ISBN 3-411-07161-3
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971.
- Peter Rölke (Ed.): Hiking and nature guide Zittauer Gebirge, Berg- und Naturverlag Rölke, Dresden 2006
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ' N , 14 ° 43' E