Martinova bouda
| Martinova bouda (Martinsbaude) |
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 Martinovka from the southeast in September 2003 |
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| Mountain range | Giant Mountains | |
| Geographical location: | 50 ° 46 '19.3 " N , 15 ° 34' 31.4" E | |
| Altitude | 1255 m nm | |
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| owner | Private | |
| Built | 1642 | |
| Construction type | Mountain hotel | |
| Development | Private road | |
| Usual opening times | All year round | |
| accommodation | 42 beds | |
| Web link |
Homepage (multilingual) |
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Martinova bouda (also Martinovka , formerly Martinsbaude ) is a private mountain hotel in the Czech Republic , which goes back to a former mine in the central part of the Giant Mountains .
location
The hotel is located in the upper part of a valley between the summit of the Great Balaclava ( Śmielec in Polish , Smělec in Czech ) and the round crest of the Hohe Rad ( Wielki Szyszak in Polish , Vysoké Kolo in Czech ) at an altitude of 1255 meters above the Labský důl ( Elbgrund ) .
The valley with the name Martinsgrund or Hofgraben belongs to the mythical Siebengrund (Czech Sedmidolí ), which with its waters form the actual headwaters of the Elbe. Here it is the Martinswasser that flows into the Elbseifen (the large western Elbe tributary). Before that, the mountain stream, also called Hofbach ( Dvorský potok in Czech ), plunges into a 68 meter high waterfall, the Hofgrabenfall ( Dvorský vodopád ).
Administratively, the meadows are around the building to the district Bedřichov ( Friedrichsthal ), a district of Spindleruv Mlyn in the district of Trutnov ( Trutnov ) and thus to the region Hradec Kralove ( Královéhradecký kraj ).
history
The history of the meadow enclave around the Martinsbaude goes back to the time of the Thirty Years War. All around the Giant Mountains, people had fled from marauding mercenary armies from the valleys to higher areas of the mountains and began to cultivate their new home. Many of the refugees who had saved themselves in the upper section of the Martinsgrund became shepherds and, in the course of time, turned almost the entire southern slope under the summit of the Hohe Rad into a huge meadow. The first documentary mention is from 1642.
This resulted in similar cleared areas in many places , which were mainly used for alpine farming . These extensive meadows are almost characteristic of the Giant Mountains. Further examples are the Fuchswiese below the Fuchsberg ( Liščí hora ), the Auerwiesbauden ( Tetřeví boudy ) or the meadow enclave at the Hinteren Rennerbauden ( Zadní Rennerovky ) on the Friesberg ( Světlý vrch ).
In the 17th century, the area came under the rule of the Counts of Harrach from Starkenbach (Jilemnice) , who leased the then simple shed with living room and some stables together with the surrounding pastures to farmers from Spindleruv Mlyn.
In 1795 the tenant Martin Erlebach built the building that still bears his name today.
In 1879 Johann Nepomuk Graf von Harrach had the building converted into a two-storey mountain courtyard with a restaurant and guest rooms. Furthermore, cattle stalls belonged to the property. The first tenants came from the Hollmann family, who were among the earliest settlers in the Giant Mountains. In the same year, the count also had the Harrachweg, named after him, built through the Elbe valley, which, marked in blue, leads from the Mädelsteg ( Dívčí Lávky ) at the confluence of the Elbseifen and Weißwasser ( Bílé Labe ) to the Elbfallbaude ( Labská Bouda ).
In addition to the winter cottage, there were two summer cottages. These lighter houses were only inhabited in summer and were demolished in 1899 after the ban on forest pasture, which was enacted as a measure to increase the timber yield. In the course of further extensive construction work, the Martinsbaude was also demolished, but rebuilt and from now on offered its guests around 50 rooms.
From 1906 to 1914 the property was called "Graf Harrach'sche Martinsbaude".
In 1912, the hotelier Otakar Hloušek from Neupaka ( Nová Paka ) took over the building from Vincenz Hollmann. He expanded the hotel to include the extension, which has been preserved to this day and which attaches at right angles to the main building. He particularly advertised Bohemian tourists and thereby gave tourism an important impetus.
After the First World War and the end of the Danube Monarchy , the counts' lands became the property of the Czech state as part of a land reform. The mountain hotel was continued by the then tenant Ferdinand Nejedlý. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement and the annexation of the Sudetenland, the Martinsbaude came back into the possession of the Hollmann family. It remains to be seen to what extent the Hollmann brothers actually became owners , as the ownership structure soon changed. After the Second World War and the expulsion of the German population, the building was again nationalized. As with other hostels, the guest operation was probably continued as a state-run rest home.
In the 1950s, the mountain rescue service " Górskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe " ("GOPR") was organized on the huts by professional mountain rescuers. So in 1956 the mountain rescue man, mountaineer and skier Kamil Šubert became a building manager and landlord. His daughter, the famous tennis player Martina Navrátilová , spent the first years of her childhood here and perhaps owes her first name to this place.
From 1965, one began to connect the Kammbauden to the supply network by underground cables and water pipes. Around 1969, the Martinovka was connected to the network together with the reinforced concrete construction of the Elbe Falls building.
In 1989, after the upheaval of the Velvet Revolution , many of the previously state-run hotels were privatized again, and since then the “Martinova bouda” has once again served unregulated tourism without any restrictions.
tourism
Martinovka can be reached in various ways:
▬ The shortest hiking trail, marked in green, leads out of the center of Spindleruv Mlyn, first to the “Medvedi koleno” ( bear's knee ) car park , which is on a hairpin bend about 900 meters above sea level. The steepest part of the route begins here, with a total of 7 kilometers and 540 meters of difference in altitude to be overcome. Before you reach the Martinsbaude, you pass the "Medvědí Bouda" ( Bear House ). From here you have to go up the mountain another 200 meters.
▬ Signposted in blue, the Korallensteinweg branches off from the green hiking trail at Martinsbaude. It leads in a north-easterly direction to the“Sedlo nad Martinovkou” pass , between the Big Balaclava and the Mannstones . In translation, the name means “pass above the Martinsbaude”, in Polish it is called Czarna Przelecz and in German Agnetendorfer or Black Pass . At the apex, at an altitude of about 1350 meters, the path crosses the red marked “ Path of Polish-Czech Friendship ” and continues down to the edge of the Agnetendorf snow pit ( Czarny Kocioł Jagniątkowski ) and the mountain stream Schneegrubenwasser ( Wrzosówka ) Polish Jagniątków ( Agnetendorf ).
If you follow the green signposts instead of turning, you will pass a simple fountain called “Studánka U Martinovky” ( Brünnlein bei der Martinsbaude ), then continue towards the Elbfall ( Labský vodopád ), Elbfallbaude and Elbquelle at medium altitude .
The red M on the left is a so-called " silent sign ", in Czech Němé značky , with which the poles of the winter marking to Martinovka are marked.
In winter, a large ski area is staked out at the nearby “Brádlerovy boudy” (Bradlerbauden) and the former Bärengrundbaude, which is operated on behalf of the “ Akciová společnost Ski Areál Špindlerův Mlýn”. At this time of year, the connection to Spindleruv Mlyn can often only be secured by snowmobile. In warmer temperatures, however, the car can be taken, because the hotel is located in the less strictly protected zone II of the Krkonošský národní park (KRNAP).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Martinova bouda. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
- ↑ From the Spindlerpass to the Elbgrund. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Špindlerův Mlýn - Martinsbaude, VESELÝ VÝLET, issue 28, page 9. Accessed March 22, 2016 . (PDF 2.2 MB)
- ^ Mario Morgner, Jens Baumann, Giant Mountains Cultural Region. Retrieved March 23, 2016 . GoogleBook
- ↑ Where a tennis star grows up ... Accessed March 23, 2016 .
- ↑ “GOPR” - Mountain Rescue in the Giant Mountains. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
- ↑ 50 Years of the Giant Mountains National Park, page 35 ff. Accessed on March 23, 2016 . (PDF, 8.8 MB)