Szybowcowa Góra
| Szybowcowa Góra | ||
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_-_panoramio.jpg) The mountain above Jelenia Góra |
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| height | 561 m npm | |
| location | Poland , Lower Silesia | |
| Mountains | Góry Kaczawskie / Bober-Katzbach Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '29 " N , 15 ° 45' 5" E | |
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| rock | Slate , marl and sandstone | |
| particularities | Jeżów Sudecki glider airfield | |
The Szybowcowa Góra (translated glider mountain ; the actual name is Schieferberg or Galgenberg ) is a mountain in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . At 561 m, it is the highest mountain in the Mały (Small Ridge) area of the Kaczawskie Góry (Bober-Katzbach Mountains) . The mountain has been known since the 1920s for the Grunau gliding school , today's Jeżów Sudecki (EPJS) gliding site.
Geographical location
The mountain is four to five kilometers north above the town of Jelenia Góra (Deer Mountain ) . Its main peak with a height of 561 meters is located 1500 meters northeast of the village Jeżów Sudecki (Grunau) in the area of the rural municipality of the same name . The glider operation was from the year 1927 on the secondary summit Gallows shifted with 559 meters. This is located 700 meters east of the main summit and, with its slopes falling to the south, east and north, offered an ideal training ground for gliding and slope flights of earlier times.
The neighboring and next higher mountains of the Kleiner Kamm are the Stromiec (Grunauer Spitzberg) and the Srebrną (Silberberg) with 551 and 491 meters height.
geology
The slate mountain got its name from the slate of the southern part: Serizite quartz slate with graphite and green slate . In the northern part there are sediments of the Upper Cretaceous : clayey marls , marl limestones and sandstones .
history
The Grunau gliding school was established on the eastern summit of the mountain in 1927 and achieved a high level of awareness. The school gliders and planes of earlier times were started here on rubber ropes and had ideal conditions in the slope wind. At the beginning of the 1930s, Hanna Reitsch and Wernher von Braun learned to fly. The world-famous Grunau Baby was built not far from the mountain and flown in on the slope . The gliding pioneer Wolf Hirth discovered the meteorological phenomenon and gliding in the lee wave here .
tourism
The glider airfield is operated by the Jeleniogórski Aeroclub , which also has a commercial airfield near Jelenia Góra . The site has five runways and is approved, among other things, for taxi start , which requires special wind conditions. The slope of the slope allows a safe "gravitational start" even with today's aircraft. Here the pilot lets the aircraft roll down a narrow, paved path until it has reached take-off speed.
Hang gliders and paragliders can also take off on the mountain slopes in coordination with the glider operations.
See also
- Mount Żar (Little Beskids , 761 m) with the glider airfield Żar
literature
- Góry i Pogórze Kaczawskie. Scale 1: 40,000. Wydawnictwo Turystyczne Plan, Jelenia Góra 2004 (2nd edition; map of the Bober-Katzbach Mountains with foothills). ISBN 83-88049-02-X .