Cherni Vrah
The meteorological station on the Cherni Wrach
The Cherni Wrach ( Bulgarian Черни връх, to German: Black Peak ) is with 2290 meters the highest mountain of Vitosha mountain.
This Vitosha Mountain with the Cherni Wrach is the fourth highest mountain ranges in Bulgaria, according to the Rila Mountains with peaks Musala ( 2925 m), the Pirin Mountain with the summit Vihren ( 2914 m ) and the Balkan mountains with Botev peak the summit ( 2376m ).
In the immediate vicinity of the summit there is a meteorological station. 1.4 km from the summit, the summit Malak Reszen ( 2191m ), lies the mountain station of the Romanski chair lift. The base station is located in Schtastliweza, an excursion and a ski resort. It lead several ski slopes into the valley.
The actual summit of Cherni Wrach is located on a relatively flat plateau on which he rises only slightly, and is almost without a significant rise from the mountain station of reach.
From the summit itself offers a very good view to the north, to Sofia and the entire Sofiaebene and the Balkan Mountains behind in the distance.
Since the peak is close to the capital Sofia, he is visited by many tourists.
The Cherni Wrach one of the 100 national tourist objects in Bulgaria, an initiative of the Bulgarian Tourist Association.
Immediately to the north west, the nature reserve Torfeno branishte connects. In the vicinity of the summit are some extensive boulder fields, which are referred to herein as " stone rivers " or also wrongly called moraines. Here the rivers Wladaja and have Bojana ( flow north from ) and goiter ( flows south from ) their headwaters.
The summit is part of the watershed between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. From the northern slope of the summit, the water flows into the Iskar and further into the Danube and the Black Sea. While the water from the southern slope flows into the Struma River and the Aegean Sea.
The weather station at the summit was built in 1935, one year after the Vitosha mountain was declared a National Park. It is the oldest national park in Bulgaria.
The weather station does not allow you to stay, but serves as a refuge in bad weather. There is a coffee shop that also offers hot meals. At the summit, a rescue team from the Mountain Rescue stationed.
The nearest refuge is the refuge Aleko, which is located 3 km to the north -north-east, which has a lift and highway from Sofia is easily accessible. There is a regular bus service to Sofia. The second mountain hut near Cherni Wrachs is the mountain hut Kumata, which is 5.5 km to the northwest, at 1725 m altitude.
At the summit, it is often very windy. With 9.3 m / s average wind speed of the peak in Bulgaria is only surpassed by Murgasch summit in Balkan Mountains, where an average wind speed of 10.3 m / s is measured.
According to legend, the summit was the first time in 181 BC by Philip V of Macedon ascended.
The Summit (according to other sources: August 27, 1895) on August 23, 1899 founded the Bulgarian Tourist Office. To this end, the summit was climbed by 300 tourists, among whom the writer Aleko Konstantinov and Ivan Vazov were. The latter was also the initiator of the initiative. Since this date is considered the birth of the Bulgarian tourism, large excursions are organized to the summit every year on this day.
Gallery
Radar Station near the summit
View from the west edge over the high plateau of the Vitosha mountain, in the background on the horizon of Cherni Wrach with the easily recognizable radar station
A wintry slopes on the northern slope of the Cherni Wrach
Name
The etymology of the name, in German: Black Summit is uncertain. Popular is the statement that the black color of the rock at the summit was eponymous.
According to another opinion, the name of the dark -looking Bergkieferern comes forth, which covered the plateau until they were burned in the Middle Ages in order to create more pasture for the sheep.
Today there are very few groups of mountain pines near Cherni Wrach. Despite efforts to promote their propagation, and recover their holdings expand only very slowly.
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