Jánské kameny
Jánské kameny ( German: Johannisstein ) is a 604 m high hill, on whose summit a formation of basalt rocks that Johann Eats A stand. It is located in the Lusatian Mountains to the Saxon- Bohemian border in the district of the spa town grove Oybin and northeast of the hamlet Kromp Acher Valy ( Schanze village).
History
Since the cession of Upper Lusatia in 1635 the border between Saxony and Bohemia runs over the Johannisstein, heard its summit to Bohemia.
On the hill a guest house was built in 1880 on the Czech side, in which a year, a lookout platform was created. As the inn due to its tremendous popularity was too small, was erected other buildings, the locust stone cottage. The chalet developed into a popular tourist site, and has also to rest for hiking on the adjacent high forest use.
Since 1927 it has been operated as a mountain hotel with function room. Other smaller chalets, such as the Bohemian Josef height or the German Schoenfeld Baude, emerged on the northern slope.
After the Second World War, the expulsion and the closure of the borders of the complex remained unused on the Czech side. The new Czech residents of Valy had no need for a tourist restaurant at the border. While many surrounding Bohemian Bungalows, such as the burning down on the Rabenstein, Hochwald and Listen at this time maintained their Johannisstein Baude. But they fell into disrepair.
Situated on the northern slope of the mountain grove place was after the war a popular resort in the Zittau Mountains and there has been interest in using the building just across the border.
Following negotiations between the GDR and Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak side, leaving the former mountain hotel on January 1, 1959, the " youth of the GDR" for use as a youth hostel " Julius Fučík ". Until the Prague Spring the house had to score again and there were makeshift repairs. As in 1968, the borders were closed again for Czechoslovakia, the hostel was vacated.
The road operation Silnice Teplice acquired the cottage in 1968 and used it as company holidays home. Overdue repairs were made and instead pieces of equipment such as ovens, hardwood floors and coffered ceilings were removed. Finally, the subject was too far run down that it was abandoned. Roof damage, wind and weather made the mountain hotel to the ruins and inside raged vandals who tore out the windows themselves.
After 1990, took place on Johannistein the opening of a border crossing for hikers between grove and Krompach.
The locust stone cottage was privatized, the new owners did not appear able to pay the taxes, let alone to put the object repaired. In 2001 there was a new buyer, the Baude gradually started to renovate and use for residential purposes.
Geology
The Pinnacle consists of an approximately 700 to 800 meters long basaltic passage, which is up to 5 meters thick and partially protrudes up to 15 meters. It is curved in an east-west direction and forms the summit area of the border between Germany and Czech Republic. There is also a nepheline tephrite with horizontal columns. The transition column is a protected geological monument of nature. The base of the Johann Eating One is oberturoner sandstone.
View from Johannisstein to the northwest on the Listen