Smrk (Jizera Mountains)
| Smrk / Smrek | ||
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 Table spruce seen from the Poledník (lunch stone) |
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| height | 1124 m | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Jizera Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '22 " N , 15 ° 16' 19" E | |
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| rock | granite | |
| Development | Construction of the first observation tower in 1892 | |
The Smrk ( German table spruce , Polish Smrek ) is at 1124 m the highest mountain in the Czech part of the Jizera Mountains .
geography
The mountain, also called the King of the Jizera Mountains , is located south of Nové Město pod Smrkem ( New Town on the Table Spruce ) and is its local mountain . The border between Poland and the Czech Republic runs over the east side of the summit plateau , the Polish summit is 1123 m high. The Lomnice ( Lomnitzbach ) and the Lužice / Łużyca ( Lausitzbach ) rise on the northern slope, the Hájený potok (Hegebach) and the Jizera (Jizera) on the southern slope .
Tabulový kámen is located on the slope of the Smrk . It has been the border point between Upper Lusatia , Silesia and Bohemia since ancient times and from 1742 to 1815 it was also the three-country corner between Saxony , Prussia and Austria .
history
On August 21, 1892, the first wooden observation tower was built on the summit, which was 20 meters high. The building workers' hut was then converted into a hut. At this time - around 1935 - up to 18,000 people came to the mountain every year.
A memorial stone for the German poet Theodor Körner has been on the mountain since 1909 .
After the Second World War , when the resident German population was expelled, the building was abandoned and looted. The abandoned building now fell into disrepair, and the tower also collapsed in the 1950s. Due to the increasing environmental destruction, the forest that once stretched to the summit was destroyed in the following decades, so that the summit of the table spruce is largely bare today.
After the political change in Czechoslovakia , the plan arose to build a new tower. Construction work began in 2002, and on September 18, 2003, the 20 m high tower, a steel structure, was inaugurated.
In June 2009 a copy of the former wooden tower was inaugurated in the Prague Zoo .
Origin of the name
The mountain got its name from a once mighty spruce at Grenzstein 111, on which Wallenstein had his coat of arms nailed (as a plaque) in 1628. This spruce was uprooted by a storm in 1790.
view
From Smrk you can see in the east to the Schneekoppe , in the west to the Lusatian mountains and in the north-west to the Boxberg power station .
Paths to the summit
- A good starting point is Lázně Libverda ( Bad Liebwerda ); from there a red hiking route leads to the summit.
- The Polish Świeradów-Zdroj ( Bad Flinsberg ) an equally steep climb over the lead Stóg Izerski ( Heufuder ) to the summit
- Conveniently other hand, is the path from the inn Smědava ( Wittig house ) 7 km along a red mark. Only the last section over the Himmelsleiter leads steeply uphill.
The former observation tower
The copy of the former wooden tower in the Prague Zoo
The ladder to heaven -
the steep ascent from the south
The grain monument on the mountain
Individual evidence
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.pragerzeitung.cz/?c_id=14759
