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Železná Hůrka
Železná hůrka (german: Eisenbühl) is an extinct Quaternary volcano and a Protected areas of the Czech Republic, national nature monument in the Fichtel Mountains in the Czech Republic. Location Železná hůrka is located about 1 km south of Mýtina in the Lipová (Cheb District), Lipová municipality, in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It lies in the easternmost part of the Fichtel Mountains. The area has also other manifestations of volcanic activity. Another Quaternary volcano, Komorní hůrka, is located nearby. CO2 outgassing occurs in the area. Metallic iron The name means "iron hill" in Czech. Fragments of metallic iron are found in the local basalt deposits. Iron usually occurs on Earth only in the oxidized form, as iron ore, and needs to be processed into metallic iron by smelting. It is thought that in the Železná hůrka area, iron-rich magma entered coal deposits which caused iron compounds to be reduced to metallic iron, in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fichtel Mountains
The Fichtel MountainsRandlesome, C. et al. (2011). ''Business Cultures in Europe'', 2nd ed., Routledge, Abingdon and New York, p. 52. . (german: Fichtelgebirge, cs, Smrčiny), form a small horseshoe-shaped mountain range in northeastern Bavaria, Germany. They extend from the valley of the Red Main River to the Czech border, a few foothills spilling over into the Czech Republic. They continue in a northeasterly direction as the Elster Mountains, and in a southeasterly direction as the Upper Palatine Forest. The Fichtel Mountains contain an important nature park, the Fichtel Mountain Nature Park, with an area of . Etymology The first person to write about the Fichtel Mountains, Matthias of Kemnath (actually Matthias Widmann, born 23 February 1429 in Kemnath) reported in 1476: ''Ein bergk, hoch, weitt, wolbekant ligt in Beiern, gnant der Fichtelberg'' ("A mountain, high, wide and well-known, lies in Bavaria, known as the Fichtelberg"). In descriptions of the border in 1499 and 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
