Moravian Gate

49.58593317.755271Koordinaten: 49 ° 35 ' 9 " N, 17 ° 45' 19" E

The Moravian Gate ( Czech Moravian brána ) is a Talwasserscheide between the catchment areas of the Oder and Morava ( Danube ) in Moravia (Czech Republic) and is thus a part of the great European watershed.

It lies between the mountain ranges Niederes dies ( or Mountain and Kuhländchen ) in the northwest, Hostýnské mountains in the south, and the Moravian- Silesian Beskids ( Moravian Wallachia ) in the southeast, north of the city Hranice na Moravě ( Moravian white churches ) at an altitude of about 310 m nm Your vertex located at the top Kuce between the villages Olšovec ( Ollspitz ) and Bělotín ( Bölten ). The west flowing past Ludina belongs to the catchment area of ​​the March, while the Doubrava in the east feeds you waters above the Luha the Oder.

The Moravian Gate once formed the natural historical border between Moravia and Silesia (today Moravian- Silesian with other administrative limits). The city's name means Hranice in the Czech border (s).

Here run the main transport links between (Prague, Vienna, Brno ) Přerov and Ostrava ( Warsaw): the route of the main Czech Corridor II and the European route E462. The construction of the final sections of the D47 motorway is in preparation and will be completed in 2009.

The summit level of the projected Danube-Oder canal should run here.

The Moravian Gate is at least since the Bronze Age eye of a needle went through the various, from here verästelnde north and south, major trade routes of antiquity, such as the so-called Amber Road.