Sivá Brada
Sivá Brada (German literally gray beard or silver beard ) is a travertine hill west of the eastern Slovak town of Spišské Podhradie (German Kirchdrauf ). A mineral spring rises on the hill with a small lake, with other springs in the immediate vicinity. In 1979 the hill was declared a National Nature Reserve of Slovakia .
The hill is located in the Hornádska kotlina basin and was created by the crossing of the faults on the eastern edge of the so-called Vikartovce Ridge with those that border the Branisko Mountains . Mineral water rich in carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) emerges along the faults . The travertine hill is of Holocene origin, 25 meters high and about 500 meters wide and is home to rich flora with rare salt and marsh plants and xerophytes . A well was drilled at the foot of the hill where in the past a cold water geyser was active, with eruptions every five to six hours, lasting between one and two hours and three to five meters high.
From the middle of the 16th century to 1945 there was a small bath here, in which joint diseases were treated and which belonged to the nearby Spiš chapter . On the hill is the Baroque Cross Chapel (Slovak kaplnka sv. Kríža ) from 1675.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on sopsr.sk (Slovak), accessed on April 5, 2020
- ↑ Gross, P. (Editor) 1999, Vysvetlivky ku geologickej mape Popradskej kotliny, Hornádskej kotliny, Levočských vrchov, Spišsko-šarišského medzihoria, Bachurne a Šarišskejj kotliny , Bratislava republic 1: 50,000, Slovenskej vrchoviny 1: 50,000
- ↑ Národná prírodná rezervácia Sivá Brada , Spišské Podhradie Tourist Information Center on July 30, 2014, accessed on April 5, 2020
- ↑ Ernst Hochberger: The Great Book of Slovakia , Sinn 2017, ISBN 978-3-921888-15-5 (p. 188)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ' N , 20 ° 43' E