Katzengebirge
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 17 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E
The cats Mountains ( Polish Wzgórza Trzebnickie , colloquially Kocie Góry ) is to just 257 m high mountain range in southwestern Poland .
geography
The ridge is located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the central section of the Trebnitz ridge ( Wał Trzebnicki ). There it lies between the Oder in the southwest and the Barycz ( Bartsch ) in the north, about 20 kilometers north of Wroclaw and immediately south, east and west of Trzebnica .
The localities that are directly in or on the Katzengebirge include:
- Rościsławice bei Obernigk (Der Warteberg) (Saint Hedwig, patron saint of Silesia)
- Oborniki Śląskie ( Obernigk )
- Oleśnica ( Oels )
- Prusice ( Prausnitz )
- Syców ( Groß-Wartenberg )
- Trzebnica ( Trebnitz )
- Twardogóra ( Festenberg )
- Wołów ( Wohlau )
Surname
In addition to the popular terms Katzengebirge or Katzenberge , a number of other terms exist or existed in German, such as Trebnitzer Gebirge , Trebnitzer Berge , Trebnitzer Hügel , Trebnitzer Höhen , Trebnitzer Katzengebirge , which refer to the place Trebnitz (today Trzebnica ). The colloquial Polish version, Kocie Góry, is the literal equivalent of "Katzenberge".
In the literature
The hilly landscape is one of the scenes and namesake of the novel Katzenberge by Sabrina Janesch .