Nakléřovská výšina

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Nakléřovská výšina
Nollendorfer Höhe (01) 2006-03-24.jpg
height 703.6  m
location Czech Republic
Mountains Ore Mountains
Coordinates 50 ° 44 '35 "  N , 13 ° 59' 11"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '35 "  N , 13 ° 59' 11"  E
Nakléřovská výšina (Czech Republic)
Nakléřovská výšina
Development Construction of an observation tower in 1913
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The Nakléřovská výšina (German Nollendorfer Höhe ) is a hill in the Eastern Ore Mountains not far from the geological border with the Elbe Sandstone Mountains on the territory of the Czech Republic near Nakléřov .

history

A decisive battle took place on the Nollendorfer Höhe on August 29 and 30, 1813 , in which the allies crushed a French army corps led by General Vandamme . There were further skirmishes on September 17 and 18, 1813, when the main French army attempted a new advance into Bohemia. Napoleon I is said to have used the tower window of St. Joseph's Church in Nollendorf, which was blown up in 1975, as an observation point. The Prussian general von Kleist received the title of nobility Graf von Nollendorf for his services in the battle of the Nollendorfer Höhe.

In 1913, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the battle on the Nollendorfer Höhe, the Aussig Mountain Association erected a memorial in the form of a 21 m high observation tower, which was named after the then Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Kaiserwarte . The mountain association collected donations for the Kaiserwarte, for example by issuing donation stamps with images of memorial sites at the battle of Kulm .

After the establishment of Czechoslovakia , the tower was renamed Carl-Weis-Warte, in 1921 it already had this name. The tower collapsed on January 29, 1944 during a snow storm and its remains were removed in 1950 .

Since 1923 there was a Naturefriends House of the Aussig section of the tourist association Die Naturfreunde underneath the tower in house Nollendorf No. 43 , which also no longer exists today.

The D 8 motorway runs at the foot of the mountain . To the north, the route emerges from the 2.13 km long Panenská tunnel and goes around the mountain to the east. Another tunnel structure was built there with the Libouchec tunnel over a length of 670 m.

Paths to the summit

From the parking lot next to the Kleist monument on the pass road, you can reach the Nollendorfer Höhe in a few minutes. Before the Second World War, the last stop of the 1912 inaugurated presented tram from Aussig to Tellnitz a popular starting point for the ascent to Nollendorfer height. Today, several hiking trails lead through the largely treeless ridge plateau from which you a comprehensive panoramic view to the Czech Central Mountains , the Elbe Sandstone and Lusatian Mountains . In the distance you can see the Jizera Mountains , the Ještěd ( Jeschken ) and the Giant Mountains with the Schneekoppe in the east .