Lomnický štít

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Lomnický štít
Lomnitzer tip (left) and Kesmarker tip (center)

Lomnitzer tip (left) and Kesmarker tip (center)

height 2634  m nm
location Slovakia
Mountains High Tatras
Dominance 6.7 km →  Gerlsdorfer Spitze
Coordinates 49 ° 11 '43 "  N , 20 ° 12' 46"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '43 "  N , 20 ° 12' 46"  E
Lomnický štít (Slovakia)
Lomnický štít
Type Rock peaks
rock granite
First ascent 1793 by Robert Townson and mountain guide

The Lomnický štít (colloquially Lomničák , German Lomnitz peak) is the third highest mountain in the High Tatras and Slovakia at 2634 m . It is considered to be the highest permanent job in Slovakia.

The Lomnicky Peak, one of the most famous and popular peaks of the High Tatras, is pyramidal in shape and has three ridges and two secondary peaks , the Kesmark Peak ( Kežmarský štít ) and the Hunsdorf Peak ( Huncovský štít ). Although Štefan Fábry is said to have made the first ascent between 1760 and 1790 , this is documented by Robert Townson and his mountain guide on August 16, 1793. Since 1891, ascents have been carried out during the winter.

There is a cable car station and an astronomical-meteorological institute at the summit. In 1957 a radio relay tower was built, and in 1962 a high-voltage line.

From the Skalnaté pleso ( Steinbachsee ) the Lomnitzer Spitze cable car leads to the summit, which connects to two cable cars from the valley town of Tatranská Lomnica via the Štart intermediate station. Those arriving by cable car can spend 50 minutes on the summit. The mountain can only be climbed on foot with a mountain guide. The easiest climb is from the Lomnické sedlo saddle (2189 m).

In addition to the mountain station, a building for a weather station was erected in 1940. In 1962, the coronary station of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences was set up to study cosmic rays.

Surname

The name derives from the former belonging to the municipality of Veľká Lomnica (German Großlomnitz ) and established itself in the first half of the 19th century. The geographer David Fröhlich wrote about the father in 1644 , in the work Hungarian or Dacianic Simplicissimus (1683) by Daniel Speer there is talk of the grandfather . Regardless of real possessions and also due to the contribution of the town of Kežmarok (German Käsmark ) to the exploration of the High Tatras, the Lomnitz peak was known as Petra altissima kesmarkiensis (after Georg Buchholtz the Younger) or the highest Kaisermark peak (Jonas A. Czibesz) known, the name Lumnitzer Spitze (sic!) appeared in the work The Zipser Schnee-Gebürg , which has blown far and wide, in 1719 by the author Georg Buchholtz the Elder, who also used the name Kesmarker Spitze .

literature

  • Ivan Bohuš: Príbehy zemepisných názvov Vysokých Tatier . Ed .: IB Vysoké Tatry. 1st edition. Tatranská Lomnica 2018, ISBN 978-80-89575-13-8 , p. 22 .

gallery

  • View from the cable car station Skalnaté Pleso (Steinbachsee) to the summit

  • View from the summit to the southeast (below: Skalnaté Pleso (1751 m) + Tatranská Lomnica (850 m), back right: Poprad (672 m))

  • Chair lift to the Lomnické sedlo (German Lomnitzer Saddle)

  • Chair lift to the Lomnické sedlo

  • View from the Lomnické sedlo to the summit

  • South wall

  • View from the summit to the southwest to Gerlachovský štít (2655 m, left of center)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Observatory on the Lomnický štít tip on Slovakia.travel accessed on November 26, 2017

Web links

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