Smrk (Jizera Mountains)
Seen Tafelfichte from Poledník
The Smrk ( German Tafelfichte, Polish Smrek ) is with 1124 meters the highest mountain in the Czech Jizera Mountains ( Jizera Mountains ) in the Czech Republic.
Geography
The king also called the Jizera Mountains Mountain is located south of Nové Město pod Smrkem ( Neustadt an der Tafelfichte ) and is its own mountain. About the east side of the summit plateau, the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, the Polish summit is 1123 meters high. On the northern slope spring the Lomnice ( Lomnitzbach ) and Lusatia / Lužica (Lausitz Bach).
On the slope of Smrk is the stone table ( Tabulový kámen ). It forms since ancient times the boundary point between the Upper Lusatia, Silesia and Bohemia, and was from 1742 to 1815 at the same time the border triangle between Saxony, Prussia and Austria.
History
On August 21, 1892, first wooden observation tower was built on the summit, which was 20 meters high. The cabin of the construction workers was then converted into a cottage. Up to 18,000 people on the mountain - per year came at the time - around 1935.
Since the 1909 is on the mountain, a memorial stone for the German poet Theodor Körner.
After the Second World War was abandoned and looted the cottage with the expulsion of the resident German population. The abandoned cottage fell into disrepair and now the tower collapsed in the fifties. Due to the increasing environmental destruction was in the following decades, more of the once destroyed protracted forest up to the summit, so that the peaks of the Tafelfichte presented today largely bare.
After the political changes in Czechoslovakia, the plan to build a new tower was built. In 2002 started the construction work, and was on 18 September 2003, also 20 m high tower, a steel structure dedicated.
In June 2009, a copy of the old wooden tower in the Prague Zoo was inaugurated.
Origin of the name
The mountain got its name from a once mighty spruce in landmark 111, left at the Wallenstein 1628 nailing his coat of arms. This spruce was uprooted by a storm in 1790.
View
From Smrk one can in the east to Snow Mountain, look to the west to the Lusatian mountains and in the north- west to the Boxberg power plant.
Way to the summit
- A good starting point is Libverda ( Bad Liebwerda ), from there, a red -marked trail to the summit.
- From the Polish Swieradów Zdrój (Bad Flinsberg ) an equally steep climb over the Stóg Izerski ( Heufuder ) leads to the summit
- Comfortable other hand, is the walk from the guest house Smědava ( Wittig house ) 7 km along a red mark. Only the last piece of the sky ladder leads steeply uphill.
- The former observation tower
- The copy of the former wooden tower in the Prague Zoo
- The stairway to heaven - the steep ascent from the south
- The grains monument on the mountain