Skalny Stół
| Skalny Stół | ||
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 The highest point on Skalny Stół |
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| height | 1282 m nm | |
| location | Poland / Czech Republic border | |
| Mountains | Giant Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 45 '9 " N , 15 ° 47' 33" E | |
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| rock | Gneiss , mica slate | |
The Skalny Stół is a mountain in the eastern part of the Giant Mountains on the Czech-Polish border.
location
The summit is the highest point of the Schmiedeberger ridge , the eastern continuation of the Silesian Giant Mountains ridge . The most important valley locations are Karpacz ( Krummhübel ) on the northwest side, Malá Úpa (Kleinaupa) in the south and northeast Kowary ( Schmiedeberg ).
The western slope drops steeply to a deep saddle above the Eulengrund (Czech: Soví dolina ). This saddle, over which the Eulenpass (Polish Przełęcz Sowia , Czech Soví sedlo or Můstek ) leads, separates it from the neighboring Black Koppe (Polish Czarna kopa , Czech Svorova hora ) and thus the Schmiedeberger Ridge from the main ridge of the Giant Mountains .
In the east it is connected to the Kammsteig (Polish Czoło , Czech Čelo ) via a flat ridge . The northern slope rises steeply above the Hirschberg Valley (Polish: Kotlina Jeleniogórska ), the southern slope above the valley of the Little Aupa (Czech: Malá Úpa ).
Nearby peaks
| Izbica | Wołowa Góra | |
| Buława |
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Czoło |
| Black head | Haida |
history
The former mountain settlement of Forstbauden (also Forstlangwasser ) is located on the northern slope at an altitude of 900 meters . Its foundation dates back to 1622, when some of the residents of the neighboring towns fled from marauding mercenary armies during the chaos of war . Many of them became shepherds and entertained themselves by making cheese, gathering forest fruits, and working in the woods. Others, however, got away with poaching and smuggling. Today reminds an old smuggler about this is that tobacco Steig (Pol. Tabaczana Ścieżka ) led by the then Silesia at the Forest Bungalows pass over the Okraj Pass to Bohemia.
In the middle of the nineteenth century there were 13 houses in the forest buildings and at the end of this century (probably 1889) the inn "Zur Forstbaude" was built with 16 beds. A little later a second hostel was built to accommodate the increasing number of tourists who wanted to hike from Kowary to Schneekoppe. In the interwar period, schoolchildren were able to spend their summer holidays here in the "Enzian" youth hostel, and until 1940 there was a meteorological station to record amounts of precipitation.
Shortly after the Second World War , the settlement was called "Zacisza Leśnego" (translated roughly "forest solitude"), but in 1949 it was given the official Polish name of Budniki. In connection with the search for uranium in the Schmiedeberger Kamm area, the settlement was finally evacuated. Some houses were blown up - their traces are still visible, others have fallen into disrepair and lie there today as if they had never been inhabited. It is to be hoped that it was not too difficult for the residents to leave, because the clearing is a lonely and inhospitable place, surrounded on all sides by mountains and during the winter there is no sunlight for almost four months.
The location of the settlement also means that the snow remains here much longer than in other places in the Giant Mountains. Therefore, in the 1960s, the planning for a ski area arose, but it was never realized. A remnant of the post-war period, however, are some tunnels and spoil heaps scattered in the forest, which were created to search for uranium ore.
Rocks and minerals
The structure of the mountain consists of metamorphic rocks , quartz slate, amphibolite , gneiss and mainly mica slate , the bedrock of the garnets typical of Bohemian folk jewelry .
The area has been known for its wealth of precious stones since the 14th century. On Rabenberg (or Rabenstein , Polish: Krucza Kopa), a pre-peak above Wilcza Poręba ( Wolfshau ), a district of Karpacz, there are pegmatite deposits with tourmaline , amethyst , corundum and sapphire crystals .
The German name also goes back to the treasures, because for a long time the so-called table cut was the preferred form of processing of minerals and table stone was a synonym for gemstone in general.
Flora and fauna
Another name for the Schmiedeberger Kamm is Forstkamm and so it shouldn't be surprising that the slopes of the Tafelsteins are densely forested up to the summit. Spruce monocultures, which were established in the 20th century, are also predominant here. But one has learned from the mistakes of the past and tries to restore the original mixed forests of beech , fir and spruce as well as mountain ash and maple in smaller quantities . Bird species can already be found at the Owl Pass that are more typical for higher elevations in the Giant Mountains, e.g. B. the bullfinch and carmine finch , of the mammals alpine shrew , swamp and earth vole are mentioned.
Tourism and nature protection
The table stone is located in the area of the Karkonoski Park Narodowy (KPN) in Poland and in the Czech Republic in the Krkonošský národní park (KRNAP). The paved paths must not be left, but the summit offers a wonderful panorama over the eastern Giant Mountains, the Hirschberg Valley, the Landeshuter Kamm and the Bober-Katzbach Mountains .
The hiking trails are color-coded:
▬ Blue - this trail leads to the Owl Pass and further, below the Schneekoppe , to Karpacz. The trail is closed between April 1st and May 31st to protect endangered species.
▬ Yellow - in the opposite direction there is a route along the northern slope of the Schmiedeberger Ridge to the Silesian Border House (Polish: Przełęcz Okraj ) and over the former settlement of Forstlangwasser (Polish: Budniki ) down to Kowary.
Pictures from the area
On the table stone
At the Grenzbauden Pass
Signpost on the summit
View of the Owl Pass from the Tafelstein
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Web links
- 360 ° panorama on the Rabenberg
- The mining tradition of Wolfshau
- The forest buildings, a forgotten beauty
- Suggested hiking route: Horní Malá Úpa - Skalny Stół
- Another hiking route: Przełęcz Okraj - Czoło - Skalny Stół
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karkonosze - Rudawy Janowickie
- ↑ Miloš Kužvart (ed.): Ložiska nerudních surovin . Univerzita Karlova, Praha 1983, pp. 116-117
- ↑ Precious stone deposits on Rabenstein ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
