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Pramen Odry.JPG
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location
Country or region Olomouc Region ( Czech Republic )
Coordinates 49 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  N , 17 ° 31 ′ 15 ″  E
height 634 m above sea level
Oderquelle (Czech Republic)
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geology
Mountains Sudeten
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Receiving waters Or → Baltic Sea

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  N , 17 ° 31 ′ 15 ″  E

The Oderquelle (Czech Pramen Odry ) is located one and a half kilometers northwest of Kozlov in the Olomouc region in the Czech Republic . It is located 634 meters above sea level on Fidlův Kopec ( Fiedelhübel ) in the Oder Mountains on the Libavá military training area .

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century, it was only known that the Oder had its origin in several rivulets in the Oder Forest ( Oderský les ) between Kozlov and Varhošť . The exact location of the source was not located. According to the town chronicle of Odry compiled by Franz Xaver Zimmermann in 1830 , this was done in 1823 by two German merchants who were passing through and who visited Leopold von Podstatzky-Liechtenstein at Veselíčko Castle . This allowed the merchants to clear hazel bushes and build a well four feet high, over which he later built a hexagonal arbor. This source, however, was not on the property of Count Podstatzky-Liechtenstein, but already belonged to the corridors of Varhošť and thus to the property of the Olomouc Kapitular Commun rule Groß Wisternitz . After the rivulet, which was originally declared a source of the Oder, dried up, the Counts Podstatzky-Liechtenstein declared another watercourse, located about 100 paces east of it on their territory, to be the source of the Oder. Maps from that time show the dried up spring as a source of the Oder , while the new spring below it was called Unterquelle .

In 1850 the Counts Podstatzky-Liechtenstein had a semicircular brick chapel with a red domed roof built at the lower source. Later this was provided with a roof made of local slate. In the second half of the 19th century, a dispute over the source of the Oder broke out between the chapter and Count Podstatzky-Liechtenstein. The chapter had a simple square fountain set up at the old Oder spring, which has now returned to water, and a Madonna figure made of oak wood next to it. The water from this source that the sub-source flowed, but dried up regularly during the summer months. The chapel at the lower source was smashed by falling trees in a storm in 1910. In their place, a wooden hexagonal pavilion with a pyramidal slate roof was built. Both structures were left to decay after the Libavá military training area was built in 1946. With the establishment of the military area, the source of the Oder also became inaccessible to the public. In 1960 the military forest management had a new, reinforced wooden pavilion built at the lower source . This spring is now only water-bearing during the snowmelt and rainy seasons, the water flowing to it is not considered drinkable. After the Velvet Revolution , public access to the Oder source was restored on June 1, 1991.

Access

The source of the Oder has been accessible all year round, with the exception of practice times, from Kozlov via the red marked hiking trail since 1991.

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