Vysoký kámen
Tor Zobák ( beak ), part of the Hohenstein
The Vysoký kámen ( German Hoher Stein ) is an up to 773 m nm high ridge with a 25 meter high lookout on the border between the Western Ore Mountains and Elstergebirge in the Czech Republic
Geography
He is eight kilometers west of the city Kraslice in Okres Sokolov (Czech Republic) and 300 meters from the border with Germany in the Bohemian Vogtland. To the east of the mountain lie the Czech centers Kámen ( Stein am Hohenstein ) and Kostelní ( Kirchberg am Hohenstein ), northeast Počátky (origin). To the west is the German community Erlbach with its districts Eubabrunn, Wernitzgrün country and community. In natural spatial structure of the Hohestein is the southernmost survey of the Ore Mountains.
Geology
The entire massif is reminiscent of the ruins of a castle, is about 400m long and consists of several individually highlighted formations. It has in the West with the Vyhlídková Skala ( lookout, 773 m) at its highest point. This can be achieved over a bridge and steel stairs. The ridges also form complete expansive wall formations at the eastern end of the rock tower Zobák ( beak ) and the monumental rocks Vetrna skala ( Windfells ).
The rock consists of quartz on a slate base. Geologists refer to this type as " High - stone - quartzite ". In the vicinity of the sudden and deeply fissured cliffs block seas have emerged that apply here as an example of rock weathering by freezing water in the Quaternary. Some of the block seas were covered with clay. On the sunny areas mainly grow blueberries, cranberries and heather.
The High stone since 1974 protected natural monument of the Czech Republic. It is used as a climbing rock and is suitable to the mostly low difficulty of your routes for beginners.
History
In the vicinity of the high stone 1805 hosts were found in the years that came out of a slump in the church in Kirchberg ( Kostelní ). At this point, one built from donations in 1817 a small chapel.
The rock was in 1907 by the Graslitzer District Council under protection after the mountain by several scale of the four landowners quarries for the extraction of gravel road was threatened in its existence.
A shack already built a makeshift inn for the many hikers in 1883. After a lightning strike came as a half-timbered building in 1885, the first real restaurant at the Hohenstein. They quickly became a popular destination. In 1906, this restaurant also burned down. Children playing with matches, the fire had caused. In the same year the building was built back in 1928 and cultivated a large dance hall. For the third time the picnic area in 1937 was destroyed by fire. The rebuilding quickly went ahead with the financial support of Markneukirchner manufacturers.
At the end of World War II in May 1945, the High stone served the retreating from the Sudetenland scattered German soldiers as a focal point from which they through the dense forests undisturbed by border guards of the U.S. occupation army across the districts Eubabrunn and Wernitzgrün the community Erlbach in the could go home. Numerous members of the Wehrmacht escaped as the prisoner.
The chapel and the inn at the Hohenstein were destroyed after 1945. The approximately eight meters deep wells, is hiding in the forest, still preserved. The clear opening is 83 x 100 cm.
Access
The High stone is from the district Eubabrunn ( parking at the open-air museum ) by foot in about an hour. On the German side the roads are fixed and partly signposted. On the Czech side, an old paved with stones dirt road from Kostelní about Kámen in 20 minutes leads almost to the height.
View
From the lookout you have a wide view to the west into the valley of the Black Brook with Erlbach and Mark Neukirchen. On the horizon you can see the Haj ( Hainberg ) at Aš and with good weather in the south-west to the Great Fichtelgebirge Kornberg, the ox head and the snow mountain. In addition, in the south can be seen les ( Kaiserwald ) the Dyleň ( Tille mountain ) at the Bavarian- Czech border and the west steep Slavkovský.