Stołowe Mountains

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In Table Mountains (View from Szczeliniec Wielki )

The Table Mountains (Polish Table Mountains, Czech Stolové Mountains, also Hejšovina ) is a part of the Mittelsudeten in Poland. It is part of Glatz in Lower Silesia in the western part of the former county of Glatz. In the west and north it borders directly on the Czech Republic, where some runners reach out. It stands as a National Park Table Mountains under special protection.

Geography

The Table Mountains to the southeast of the Eagle Mountains and to the Habelschwerdter mountains, of which there through the valley of Reinerz Weistritz ( Bystrzyca Dusznicka ) and the Hummel pass is disconnected. In the southwest run the Wzgórza Lewinskie ( Lewiner Bergland ) and in the northwest of the elongated ridge of mountains includes Falk ( Broumovské Steny ) with the 773 m high Božanovský Špičák ( Barzdorfer Spitzberg ) to. Between the Table Mountains and the north-eastern Eulengebirge the broad valley of the rocks is ( Ścinawka ).

Starting point for Heuscheuer is Karłów ( Karlberg ), which is below the Great Heuscheuer and is reached via the province road 387. The Table Mountains belonging to the rock city Bledne Skały ( Wild holes ) is reached via a branch or alternatively from about Czermna of Bukovina Kłodzka ( Bukowine ).

Surrounded the Table Mountains is from the towns Pasterka ( Passendorf ) in the north, Radków ( Wuenschelburg ) and Ratno Dolne ( Niederrathen ) in the northwest, Wambierzyce ( Albendorf ) in the east, Polanica- Zdrój (Bad Altheide ) and Szczytna ( Rückers ) in the southeast, Łężyce ( Friedersdorf ) Duszniki - Zdrój (Bad Reinerz ) and Lewin Kłodzki ( Lewin ) to the south, Jeleniów ( Gellenau ) Kudowa- Zdrój (Bad Kudowa ) and Czermna ( Tscherbeney ) in the southwest and Pstrążna ( Straußeney ) and Ostra Góra ( Nauseney ) in the West.

Across the border to the Czech Republic, which runs to the west and north of the Heusscheuergebirges, Žďárky and Vysoká Srbská lie to the west, Nizka Srbská, Bezděkov and Machov in the northwest and Božanov ( Barzdorf ) and Otovice ( Ottendorf ) in the northeast.

Through the Table Mountains, the watershed between the Baltic and the North Sea runs. The streams of the eastern mountain half flow to the stones and Reinerz Weistritz and thus in the Baltic Sea. The streams of the western mountain half drained by the springing among the savages holes Židovka ( Glossy Ibis Bach) and the Czermnica ( Czech heritage Neyer Bach), which opens as a left tributary of the Brlenka, in the Mettau ( Metuje ) and thus the North Sea. The same is true for the coming of the Table Mountains right tributaries of Bystra ( Fast ), which also flows into the Mettau.

Description

The German name of the mountain derives ( npm 919 m; Polish Szczeliniec Wielki, Czech Velka Hejšovina ) of the table mountains of the Great Heuscheuer, and the Little Heuscheuer ( 895 m npm; Polish Szczeliniec Maly ), which remind their shape to large Heuscheuern and also represent the highest elevations. The Polish name of the Table Mountains on the other hand means " table mountain ". The mountain has numerous distinctive sandstone cliffs that form dramatic gorges, canyons and towers. It has been developed for tourism in 1790 by Franz Pabel from Karlberg and visited in the same year by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II. On August 28, 1790, the Heuscheuer by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was mounted, then the geological description written.

Attractions

• Pilgrimage Wambierzyce
• Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture in Pstrążna, with faithfully reconstructed farmhouses from the area
• Skull Chapel ( Kaplicza czaszek ) in Czermna

• Rock formations

Table Mountains, Rock City

Table Mountains, in the labyrinth of rocks