Gold height
| Gold height / Zlaté návrší | ||
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 The height of gold |
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| height | 1411 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic / Poland border | |
| Mountains | Giant Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 45 ′ 1 ″ N , 15 ° 33 ′ 15 ″ E | |
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| rock | granite | |
The Goldhöhe , in Czech Zlaté návrší , is an elongated mountain ridge in the Czech part of the Giant Mountains with a height of 1411 meters above sea level. d. The actually highest point of the summit plateau is reached on Vrbatovo návrší ( Vrbata hill , 1416 m, coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 9 ″ N, 15 ° 32 ′ 52 ″ E ), which is, however, managed as an independent summit.
location
The Goldhöhe belongs to the Bohemian ridge of the Giant Mountains and is about 3 km south of the main ridge, the border with Poland . It is located in the Dolní Dvůr (Niederhof) district in the Giant Mountains National Park (Krkonošský národní park) and is accessible via road 286 (Mísečky - Zlaté návrší), which was laid out in tight serpentines between 1934–1936 .
The summit is located between the Kesselkoppe (Kotel) and the Schüsselberg (Medvědín) north of the Ober Schüsselbauden (Horní Mísečky).
Nearby peaks
| Sokolnik | Vysoká pláň | Hraniční hřeben |
| Harrachstones |
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Medvědín |
| Vlčí hřeben S | Vídeňská skála | Mechovinec |
history
Before 1938, the Czechoslovak army had built a bunker and five permanent block houses on the Goldhöhe , which were supposed to serve as border security. With the incorporation of the Sudetenland according to the Munich Agreement , Goldhöhe belonged to the German Reich from 1938 to 1945 . The military facilities were handed over to the German armed forces and initially remained unused.
Research station
After his return from the Herdemerten-Greenland expedition at the end of 1938, polar researcher Kurt Herdemerten set up a polar experimental station, the Goldhöhe research station , in the abandoned army barracks . Here, the white gyrfalcon brought from West Greenland by the expedition should be able to be researched under environmental conditions that corresponded to the climate in the arctic homeland of the falcons. A similar attempt to settle gyrfalcons in Central Europe had failed in 1937 in the Reichsjägerhof "Hermann Göring" in the Harz foreland. The station was financed by the Hermann Göring Foundation. In cooperation with the Reich Agency for Nature Conservation and the University of Breslau , research on biological issues in the Arctic should also be carried out here.
Military training camp
During the Second World War , the area of responsibility of the experimental station changed. At the suggestion of Hans-Robert Knoespel , a former employee of Herdemerten, Admiral Fritz Conrad had the station expanded in the winter of 1942/43 into an arctic training camp for the marine weather troops (MWT), of which Knoespel became the head. He was supported by Heinrich Schatz . In 1943 the meteorologist Gottfried Weiss (1911-?) Took over the management of the training camp. Until the end of 1944, soldiers were trained at Goldhöhe for deployment in polar regions, primarily for the Wehrmacht's weather stations in the Arctic . Among other things, the Haudegen company was prepared here.
Attractions
A monument on the actual summit of the Goldhöhe, called Vrbatovo návrší, commemorates the Czech athlete Bohumil Hanč and his friend Václav Vrbata , who both died here on March 24, 1913 during a 50-km cross-country skiing in a snow storm. A 1964 built and named after Vrbata Baude also commemorates the event.
Paths to the summit
From the Špindlerův Mlýn ( Spindleruv Mlyn ) to the east , you can reach the Goldhöhe via Horní Mísečky on a red marked hiking trail. Following the path to the west, you go down to Rokytnice nad Jizerou via the Dvoračky shack , founded in 1707 . There is also a hiking trail between the summit and the Elbe Falls chalet, which is about two kilometers to the north . During the summer season it is also possible to take the bus from Horní Mísečky. This drives on the aforementioned Bergstrasse 286 , which is closed to public traffic.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Herdemerten: Jukunguaq. The Greenland Book of the Hermann Göring Foundation. Georg Westermann publishing house, Braunschweig 1939.
- ↑ Theodor Guspietsch: Hans-Robert Knöspel to memory. Polarforschung, 15, 1/2, 1945, p 26. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Franz Selinger: From 'Nanok' to 'Eismitte'. Meteorological ventures in the Arctic 1940–1945. Hamburg 2001. p. 151.
- ^ JDM Blyth: German meteorological activities in the Arctic. Polar Record 6 (12), 1951, pp. 185-226.
- ^ Wilhelm Dege : War North of 80. The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II. Translated from the German and edited by William Barr. Arctic Institute of North America (Northern lights series 4). Calgary, Alberta (University of Calgary Press) and Boulder, CO (University Press of Colorado) 2004, ISBN 1-55238-110-2 , pp. 4-9.
