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Western Sudetes
The Western Sudetes ( pl, Sudety Zachodnie; cs, Krkonošská oblast; german: Westsudeten) are a geomorphological macroregion, the western part of the Sudetes subprovince on the borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. They are formed mostly by mountain ranges. They stretches from the Bóbr river in the east to the Elbe and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the west. Divisions The Western Sudetes are further divided into mesoregions (number indicates its location on the infobox map): *1 – West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands *2 – Upper Lusatian Gefilde *3 – Lusatian Highlands *4 – Zittau Basin *5 – Lusatian Mountains (including the Zittau Mountains) *6 – Izerskie Foothills *7 – Jizera Mountains *8 – Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge *9 – Kaczawskie Foothills *10 – Kaczawskie Mountains *11 – Jelenia Góra Valley *12 – Rudawy Janowickie *13 – Giant Mountains *14 – Giant Mountains Foothills *15 – Waldenburg Mountains The Wałbrzyskie Mountai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ústí Nad Labem Region
Ústí nad Labem Region or Ústecký Region ( cs, Ústecký kraj, , ), is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of the historical land of Bohemia, and named after the capital, Ústí nad Labem. It covers the majority of the former North Bohemia province ( cs, Severočeský kraj) and is part of the broader area of North Bohemia. The region borders the regions of Liberec (east), Central Bohemia (south), Plzeň (southwest), Karlovy Vary (west) and the German region of Saxony to the north. The Ústí region comprises a range of very different types of landscape. Between the high escarpment of the Ore Mountains ( cs, Krušné hory) range and the Bohemian Central Uplands with many volcanic hills, there are vast areas devastated by surface coal mining (the North Bohemian Basin), partly being recultivated into an artificial landscape with ponds, plains and groves. The Elbe river runs through the Central Uplands in a winding gorge o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Lusatian Gefilde
The Upper Lusatian Gefilde (german: Oberlausitzer Gefilde or sometimes ''Bautzener Gefilde'', Upper Sorbian: ''Hornjołužiska pahórčina'') is a natural region in Saxony near the German tripoint with the Czech Republic and Poland. It is considered part of the Saxon Loess Fields and the Western Sudetes The Western Sudetes ( pl, Sudety Zachodnie; cs, Krkonošská oblast; german: Westsudeten) are a geomorphological macroregion, the western part of the Sudetes subprovince on the borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. They are formed mo ... range. ''Gefilde'' is German for "fields"Worsch, Wolfgang (2004). ''Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders Großwörterbuch, Teil II, Deutsch-Englisch '', Langenscheidt KG, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, New York. . or "country". References Literature * Karl Mannsfeld, Hans Richter (ed.): ''Naturräume in Sachsen.'' Trier, 1995. * Rochus Schrammek: ''Verkehrs- und Baugeschichte der Stadt Bautzen.'' Bautzen, 1984. External links Regiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Mountains Foothills
In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: ''wiktionary:gigas, gigas'', cognate wiktionary:giga-, giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''giant'' is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester (historian), Robert of Gloucester's chronicle. It is derived from the ''Giants (Greek mythology), Gigantes'' ( grc-gre, Γίγαντες) of Greek mythology. Fairy tales such as ''Jack the Giant Killer'' have formed the modern perception of giants as dimwitted ogres, sometimes said to eat humans, while other giants tend to eat the livestock. The antagonist in ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' is often described as a giant. In some more recent portrayals, like those of Jonathan Swift and Roald Dahl, some giants are both intelligent and friendly. Literary and cultural analysis Giants appear in the folklore of cultures worldwide as they represent a relatively simple concept. Representing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Mountains
The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše or Karkonosze (Czech: , Polish: , german: Riesengebirge) are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif). The Czech-Polish border, which divides the historic regions of Bohemia and Silesia, runs along the main ridge. The highest peak, Sněžka ( pl, Śnieżka, german: Schneekoppe), is the Czech Republic's highest point with an elevation of . On both sides of the border, large areas of the mountains are designated national parks (the Krkonoše National Park in the Czech Republic and the Karkonosze National Park in Poland), and these together constitute a cross-border biosphere reserve under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. The source of the River Elbe is within the Giant Mountains. The range has a number of major ski resorts, and is a popular destination for tourists engaging in downhill and cross-country skiing, hiking, cycling a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudawy Janowickie
The Rudawy Janowickie or Landeshut Ridge (german: Landeshuter Kamm, cs, Janovické rudohoří) is a mountain range in Sudetes in Poland. See also *Colourful lakelets Colourful lakelets (Polish "Kolorowe Jeziorka") is the name of three (sometimes four) artificial ponds formed in place of former mines at the slope of Wielka Kopa mountain (871 m) in Rudawy Janowickie, range in Sudetes Mountains, Poland. The bigg ... Sudetes Geography of Lower Silesian Voivodeship {{LowerSilesian-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaczawskie Mountains
The Katzbach Mountains or Kaczawskie Mountains ( pl, Góry Kaczawskie; german: Katzbachgebirge) are a mountain range, roughly 30 kilometres long, in the Western Sudetes in Poland. It is located within the Polish province of Lower Silesia. Its highest peak is the Melkgelte / Skopiec (724 m). To the north of the Katzbach Mountains are the Katzbach Foothills ( pl, Pogórze Kaczawskie; german: Bober-Katzbach-Vorgebirge). Location The ridge, which runs from northwest to southeast at heights between 400 and 700 metres, is a fold mountain range consisting of limestone, slate and dolomite. In the west the Bober separates the range from the Jizera Mountains and Jizera Foreland; to the north are the Katzbach Foothills; to the east the Raging Neisse / Nysa Szalona forms the boundary. In the southeast, the Katzbach Mountains merge into the Waldenburg/Walbrzyskie Highlands. To the south, the Landeshut Ridge / Rudawy Janowickie and Jelenia Gora Valley form the transition to the Giant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge
The Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge (; cs, Ještědsko-kozákovský hřbet) is a ridge and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is part of the Western Sudetes. The vast majority lies in the Liberec Region. Geomorphology Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge is a mesoregion of the Western Sudetes, which is part of the Sudetes within the Bohemian Massif. It is a distinctive horst and anticline ridge. It is further subdivided into the microregions of Ještěd Ridge and Kozákov Ridge. Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge is named after the two highest and most dominant mountains of its two parts, Ještěd in the northwest part and Kozákov in the southeast. Ještěd is the highest peak of the ridge and the only peak above 1,000 m. The highest peaks of the ridge are: *Ještěd, *Černý vrch, *Hlubocký hřeben, *Černá hora, *Vápenný, *Rozsocha, *Malý Ještěd, *Dlouhá hora, *Kozákov, Geography The ridge has a narrow elongated shape that extends from northwest to southeast. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jizera Mountains
Jizera Mountains ( cz, Jizerské hory), or Izera Mountains ( pl, Góry Izerskie; german: Isergebirge), are part of the Western Sudetes on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. The range got its name from the Jizera River, which rises at the southern base of the Smrk massif. The beech forests within the Jizera Mountains were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, because of their outstanding preservation and testimony to the ecological history of Europe (and the beech family specifically) since the Last Glacial Period. Geography The range stretches from the Lusatian Mountains (Zittau Mountains) in the northwest to the Krkonoše in the southeast. The Jizera Mountains comprise the sources of the Jizera river, as well as of the Kwisa and the Lusatian Neisse. The major part in the south is formed from granite, in the northern part from gneisses and mica schists, with some area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zittau Mountains
The Zittau Mountains (german: Zittauer Gebirge, cs, Žitavské hory), formerly also called the Lusatian Ridge (''Lausitzer Kamm''), refer to the German part of the Lusatian Mountains that straddle the Saxon- Bohemian border in the extreme southeast of the German state of Saxony. Geography Location The Zittau Mountains lie in the extreme south of the district of Görlitz in Saxony. A few kilometres north of the range lie a number of settlements; from west to east they are Großschönau, Hainewalde, Olbersdorf, Bertsdorf-Hörnitz and Zittau. In the mountains themselves are, again from west to east, the settlements of Waltersdorf, Oybin, Jonsdorf and Lückendorf . The highlands are drained by streams that flow roughly north into the Mandau, a western tributary of the Lusatian Neisse. Mountains Among the highest mountains in the range are the following (in order of height in m above NN: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
