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View from the northwest
The Rip [ ɼi ː p] pronunciation? / I ( German Sankt Georg Berg, Georgsberg or Roudnice mountain ) is a 456 m high mountain in Okres Litoměřice, Czech Republic. It is located on the left side of the Elbe River 6.5 km south of the city Roudnice ( Raudnitz ) near the village of Krabčice. The legendary mountain was formerly a Catholic place of pilgrimage and is now a national- Czech memorial. His tales and legends lead to the early days of the Czech people. The from the Bohemian level striking and hat-like bulged Nephelinitberg, a basalt -like rock, was sometimes referred to because of its strikingly rounded shape also popularly known as the " bell jar ".
History
At the summit there was a St. George and St. Adalbert Romanesque chapel dedicated. The chapel was built in 1126 by Duke Soběslav I after the victorious battle of Chlumec about Lothar III. built on the site of a wooden chapel from the beginning of the 11th century and inaugurated by the Olomouc Bishop Heinrich Zdik in the same year. 1143 appropriated over Duke Vladislav II Mount the newly founded monastery at Strahov. During the Hussitenunruhen the Georgsberg came into the possession of the noble family of Aldermen Cziněves that the chapel donated their existing today two bells.
The Prague monastery that was once the owner of the mountain since 1515, sold it in 1577 to Wilhelm von Rosenberg. When he died in 1592, came the Georgsberg together with the rule of the Roudnice Rosenberger on William 's widow Polyxenia of Pernštejna to Zdeněk Adalbert Popel of Lobkowicz. The 400 -year-old property of the Lobkowicz family was broken up in 1989 in Czechoslovakia only by the time of expropriation during the communist regime in 1948. With the return of Roudnice line of the Princely House of Lobkowicz in 1989 they received part of their property, including the Rip back.
1826, the chapel on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Chlumec was rebuilt. Major renovations were made 1869-1881, inter alia, the portal has been renewed and the stone roof replaced by a cement covering. Inside the building a body set up by the sculptor Bernhard Otto Seeling sculpture was erected in 1870, depicting the battle of Saint George and the dragon.
In 1890 a measurement of the basalt magnetism on the mountain by members of the international Erdmessungs Commission, which einmeißelten their results into the stone floor panels of the chapel. Because of the high magnetite content of the mountain here is a magnetic anomaly with special radiation.
The national importance of the mountain
The mountain was described by the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, in his description of the collection of the legendary forefather Czech and his people to the promised land as the place where the immigrants halted, settled down and decided to stay. Therefore, the mountain with the start of National Revival in the mid-19th century symbol of the Czech National Revival was. 1848 there was a celebration of the abolition of forced labor and serfdom on the mountain. For the construction of the National Theatre in Prague was broken on May 10, 1868 in a ceremony held after a flaming speech of the writer Karel Sabina in front of 20,000 people the foundation stone from the rock of the Rip.
The mountain became a venue of various meetings. 1914 was held an anti-war demonstration against the First World War in 1939 demonstrated courageous Czechs against the German occupation and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in their home area. Many Czech poets have appreciated the Rip in their works. Since 1963, the mountain is a Czech national monument. In the rotunda, a national memorial was established. In the period 1966-1977 involved extensive renovation work; the windows were produced in their original form again.