Chřiby

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Chřiby ( German Mars Mountains) is a 335 km2 large tourist area and a nature park. It is located in South Moravia in the Czech Republic and offers a variety of natural beauty and numerous historical monuments.

Description

The mountain is the highest part of the Středomoravské Karpaty (Central Moravian Carpathians) and spreads from Zlín to the South Moravian Region of. The highest point is the Brdo. Other important geographic points are Bunč and Komínky. In three districts where the nature park is located, you can visit historical monuments. The mountain forms with the neighboring mountains Ždánický a natural boundary between two regions. To the south and east Slovácka spreads, in the north begins the Hanna.

The mountain itself is made of clay and sandstone cliffs, covered by dense deciduous forests and crossed by the river Morava. The pleasant and warm climate attracted for a long time animals of various kinds, who found their home here. The flora is typical of the Central European Carpathians. In addition to species of lilies are found more rare plants here.

History

The area was settled by people early. Excavations in Bělov, Žlutava, Nová Dědina objects of the first hunters were found from the Palaeolithic era, as well as tools for farmers who settled later. At that time this area was one of the densely populated areas. From this early period the remains of mammoths and woolly rhinos come.

The area lay on the trade route from the Adriatic to the Baltic States. To 1200-800 BC, built on the Holý kopec the first castle wall. At the same time, the castle guarded the way, proceeding out of the Salzkammergut in Roštín. The Amber Road and the Salt Road met at Kroměříž and Chřiby and thus formed an important part of these trade routes. At the confluence of the Morava to the river Olšava later created an offshore fortress of the Romans. After the colonization by Slavs the area for commercial and administrative center with major locations of the army and the church was. It is assumed that the area is the origin of the Great Moravian Empire.

Since the Middle Ages, probably already at the Great Moravian period, the oak -beech forests formed a sovereign Wildbann forest. To protect it left the Přemyslids in Stříbrnice and Lubná up two game dishes. The Lowczowe prawo of Stříbrnice later also received the blood jurisdiction of the Buchlov transferred and held this out to 1748.