Gírová

The Girova (Polish and German Girowa ) is a mountain on the border of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. N.M. With a height of 840 m it is the highest mountain in the Jablunkov mountain country in the Beskids.

Location

The mountain rises five kilometers southeast of the city Jablunkov. North of the Valley of the Olsa lies with the municipalities Pisek and Bukovec. At the eastern foot of the state boundary with Poland, on this side of the mountain are the places Hrčava, Jaworzynka and Łącki. In the south, below the mountain runs along the border with Slovakia. On the Slovak side of the valley of the Čierňanka connects with the villages Čierne and Svrčinovec. To the west, in the valley of the brook Ošelnice extends the community Mosty u Jablunkova. Over the hill runs the main European watershed.

In addition to the summit Girova are the Komorovsky Grůň (732 m ) in the east and the Studeničný (717 m) in the southwest.

At the southwestern foot of the Girova is the Jablunkapass with a railway tunnel. Over the pass the road leads Europe 75 four kilometers southeast of the summit is the landmark of the triangle.

History

Through the valley of Ošelnice led below the mountain since the Middle Ages, the copper road from Silesia on the Jablunkapass to Hungary.

Because of its location on the strategically important pass of Girowa has been used since the 19th century as a survey point. Albrecht von Sydow leads the mountain with 3048 feet above the sea in his remarks on a trip in 1827 by the Beskydy about Krakow and Wielicska by the Central Carpathians ( 1830) as one of the highest peaks of Beskydy and Babia Gura Mountains at. Malchus was the mountain in 1833 in the Handbook of Military Geography also with 3048 feet above the sea on. In Yearbook of k.k. Imperial Geological Institute of 1850 is on the hilltop Girowa, half an hour west of the village Jaworzinka reported a trigonometric point 2641 Vienna feet above sea level.

The tourist development of the Girova began in the 20th century. On 9 July 1932, the Czech Tourist Club ( KCT ) opened east of the summit, a tourist lodge ( Horská chata Girova ).

Special

On the west side of the summit lies the sandstone rock group Čertovy mlýny. On the northern slope there are two caves.

Below the Studeničný is on a slope of the mountain in Mosty u Jablunkova a winter sports resort with several ski lifts and a bobsled run.

From the summit there is a clear view of the Slovak Beskidenvorland to Mala Fatra.