Waldenburger Bergland

Waldenburger Bergland
	Winter in the Waldenburger Bergland - view of Heidelberg ( Waligóra )
Highest peak	Borowa ( 853 m npm )
location	Poland
part of	West Sudetes
Coordinates	50 ° 43 ' N , 16 ° 18' E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ' N , 16 ° 18' E

Borowa

Fürstenstein Castle

The Waldburger Bergland (Polish Góry Wałbrzyskie , Silesian Walmbriger Barge ), together with the Owl Mountains and the Falk Mountains the western part of Mittelsudeten and is predominantly in Poland . Some southern foothills reach as far as the Czech Republic . The mountains extend west and south-west of the Lower Silesian town of Wałbrzych (Waldenburg) . Owl Mountains and Falken Mountains form the continuation of the Waldenburger Bergland in the southeast. In the West Sudeten the Bober-Katzbach Mountains and the Landeshuter Kamm adjoin the Waldenburger Bergland to the west.

Names

The mountain names in the Waldenburger Bergland are clearly differentiated in Poland in the higher, southern part of the mountain range called Góry Kamienne ("Stone Mountains") and the lower, northern part called Góry Wałbrzyskie ("Waldenburg Mountains"). The name Steine-Gebirge is derived from the Steine River and was sometimes used before 1945 .

geography

Góry Kamienne

The Góry Kamienne (Stone Mountains) include all mountain ranges in the south of the Waldenburg Mountains (from east to west: Góry Suche, Masyw Lesistej, Czarny Las, Zatory, Wzgórza Krzeszowskie) as well as the Little Raven Mountains (Polish: Góry Krucze, Czech . Vraní hory) on the Polish-Czech border near Lubawka ( Liebau i. Silesia ). Their length is about 50 kilometers in a west-east direction, with a slight horseshoe-shaped opening to the south. Taken together, Wzgórza Krzeszowskie and Zatory correspond to the Schömberger Mountains around the town of Chełmsko Śląskie ( Schömberg ) in the southwest, the Góry Suche to the Heidelgebirge (Czech: Javoří hory) in the southeast.

The highest mountain in the Waldenburger Bergland is the Waligóra ( Heidelberg ) with a height of 936 m above sea level. NN . It is located southeast of Unisław Śląski ( Langwaltersdorf ) in the Góry Suche, the highest mountain range in the Góry Kamienne; the Bergbaude Andrzejówka ( Andreas cottage ) (796 m) is located at its north slope. In addition, Bukowiec ( Buchberg ) (898 m) and Włostowa ( High Mountains ) (903 m) near Sokołowsko ( Görbersdorf ) as well as Lesista Wielka ( High Heide ) (851 m) and Lesista Mała ( Small Heide ) ( 836 m) in Masyw Lesistej north of Mieroszów ( Friedland i. Lower Silesia ).

Góry Wałbrzyskie

The Góry Wałbrzyskie (Waldenburg Mountains), on the other hand, represent a collection of individual mountain peaks and otherwise have only one continuous mountain range (Góry Czarne, "Black Mountains"), which connects them with the Góry Kamienne to the south. Its length is about 35 kilometers in a northwest-southeast direction. They are one of the foothills on the northern slope of the Sudetes .

The most prominent mountain here is the Chełmiec ( high forest ) (851 m), the summit of which towers over the Silesian Plain to the west above Wałbrzych . The Trójgarb ( Saddle Forest ) (779 m) east of Marciszów ( Merzdorf ) has three peaks, while the Borowa ( Black Mountain ) in the Góry Czarne near Jedlina-Zdrój ( Bad Charlottenbrunn ) at 854 m above sea level. NN represents the highest point in the northern part of the Waldenburger Bergland.