Jelení hora

Jelení hora and dam Preßnitz, seen from Velky Špičák ( from the southwest )

The Jelení hora ( German Haßberg while Jelení hora " Hirschberg " means ) is a 994 m high mountain in the Czech part of the Erzgebirge.

Location

The mountain is located in the Okres Chomutov between Annaberg -Buchholz and Chomutov southeast of the community Kryštofovy Hamry (Christoph Hammer). He rises above the broad valley of Preßnitz with the dam Preßnitz that today at the site of the former mining town Přísečnice ( Preßnitz ) southwest of the mountain is located. Striking feature is the steep, narrow and only partially forested crest of the mountain, which rises over the vast plateaus of Erzgebirgskammes, allowing a good view to the Upper Erzgebirge and restricted to the Egertal.

Geology

The mountain is composed of nephelinite and andesite, a volcanic rock that forms irregular hexagonal columns here, and probably in the Tertiary in the course was effusive volcanic activity. 300 meters north-west there is another passage of the same rock. Through floor tiles are extensive boulders have distributed on the slopes of the hill.

Ways

The Jelení hora is easily reached via a footpath that leads from the south to the summit. As a starting point, offers the dam of the dam Preßnitz, but the access is that of a dense network of forest roads developed area is also approximately in the southeast of Vysluni possible.