Rudawy Janowickie

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Landeshuter comb - The Sokolik in the Falk Bergen

The Landeshuter comb (Polish Rudawy Janowickie ) in Poland is the easternmost part of the Western Sudetes Mountains and covers an area of about 90 km ². He joins the north-east of the Sudeten Mountains and goes south on the ridge corresponding to the Giant Mountains Schmiedeberger comb and comb piston in the small Rehorngebirge over. To the north lies the Kaczawskie Mountains and east of the Waldburger Bergland.

Name

The German name is derived from the south-east of the mountain town Kamiennogórska ( Landeshut i Silesia ), while the Polish name on the northerly village Janowice Wielkie ( Jannowitz ) and refers literally " Jannowitzer Ore " means. Numerous place and field names in Landeshuter comb take on metal deposits reference. So the massif in mines uranium was mined, for example, after 1945 near Miedzianka (Copper Mountain ) in the north- east, as well as in Kowary ( Schmiedeberg ) on its western flank. In past centuries, lead, copper and arsenic was here successfully for gold, mined.

Geography

The Landeshuter ridge separates the Jelenia Góra valley to the west by Landeshuter valley in the east. To the east and north it is circled in a wide arc from Bober, the Kamiennogórska, Janowice Wielkie and Jelenia Góra ( Hirschberg i RSGB. ) Together.

The main ridge of the mountain range extends to 16 kilometers in north-south direction of Janowice Wielkie in the north to Schmiedeberger Pass (Polish Przełęcz Kowarska ) ( 727 m), a mountain pass in the south, which forms the border to the Giant Mountains. The Przełęcz Rudawska ( pass, 740 m) divides the main ridge into a southern and a northern section. The highest point of the mountain is the Skalnik ( Friesenstein ) with 945 m in the southern section, while Dzicza Góra ( 891 m) and represent Wołek ( 878 m), the highest points in the north of the massif. Side branch off several side combs, of which are of the northwestern the most important. This is through the deeply Karpnicka Przełęcz ( Pass, 475 m) from the rest of the range separated, forming the so-called Falk Mountains (Polish Sokole Gory ). The highest elevations here are the twin mountains Krzyżna Góra (Kreuzberg), 654 m, and Sokolik ( Forest Hill), 642 m to mention, that form a distinctive, throughout the Jelenia Góra Valley visible, almost symmetrical double formation.

Attractions

1989 Rudawski Landscape Park was ( Nature Park Landeshuter Crest) created with an extension of 88 km ². Ever since, almost the entire mountain nature reserve.

Especially the north of the mountains and the picturesque mountains Falk in some cases show dramatic, up to 60 meters high cliffs and rock formations. Best known are musts Skalny ( " rock bridge " ), Skalne Bramy ( "Rock gates" ) and Starościńskie Skały. After the High Tatras of Landeshuter comb is the most popular climbing area in Poland. There are also in the east of the massif, near the village of Wieściszowice ( Rohnau ), the Kolorowe Jeziorka ( "Coloured Lakes" ) - three lakes, which naturally through seepage in the old test pits hope Gustav and new happiness from the 18. century have emerged. Cause metal oxides that their water each purple, green and azure blue shimmers. In Landeshuter comb is the oldest mountain chalet in the Sudetes, the Schweizerei (Polish Szwajcarka ) of 1823. Tourist development is comprehensive, the network of trails is dense. The peaks and passes offer some of the best views of the Giant Mountains in the southwest and the Waldburger hill country to the east.

The azure sea Błękitne Jeziorko

The green lakes, Zielone Jeziorko

Another attraction is the Stary tract Kamiennogórski, an old, closed to motor vehicle traffic and boldly constructed road on the Przełęcz pod Bobrzakiem ( pass, 805 m) in the southern main ridge, which was built in 1778 and has been preserved in its historic state. Once drove here the stagecoaches of Breslau Schweidnitz ( Świdnica ) to Hirschberg ( Jelenia Góra ) along. The best known town in the Landeshuter comb is Karpniki ( Fischbach ) on the west flank of the Falk mountains where there is a former summer residence of Prussian kings. Very close is Bukowiec ( Buchenwald) with a secondary seat of the family of speeches, idyllic landscape park and sanatoriums.