() is a

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in the

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mountain range,

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. Its top is the

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of the municipalities of Milíkov, Košařiska, and

Dolní Lomná Dolní Lomná (, ) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority. Etymology The name is borrowed f ...

. Several tourist routes lead to Kozubová from this villages and from

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Etymology

According to Jan Korzenny, regional historian from Dolní Lomná, the name of the mountain is derived from surname ''Kozub''. It is said to be a sheep

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who led his sheep on the slopes of this mountain.

Tourism

In 1937, a Chapel of

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was built there. Beskid

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was used as a construction material. Main initiator of the building was priest Rudolf Płoszek from

Hnojník Hnojník (, ) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,500 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority. Etymology The name is derived from ...

. It was consecrated on 7 August 1937. More than 10,000 people took part in the event. Since 1937, a church fair occurs here every year at the end of July around the Feast of Saint Anne day. Prominent feature of the chapel is a tower, serving as a lookout tower during the church fair. Church masses occur only several times a year. At the end of the 1990s, it was reconstructed. There is a

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on Kozubová. Original wooden hut was built in July 1928-August 1929 on the initiative of Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczne "Beskid Śląski" (Polish Touristic Society "Silesian Beskids") of the local Polish minority. The project was prepared by architect Edward Dawid. Mountain hut was opened 8 September 1929. During

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it served mostly to the

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, and at the end of war to

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units who conducted operations against partisans from the area. The building burnt to the ground on 9 February 1973.* Precise investigation evaluated reason of the fire. It was self-ignition of a balk near the chimney. In 1986 new, current hut was built on its place; its architectonic character is, however, completely different from the style of the original one.

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Kozubowa 1429.jpg, Chapel of Saint Anne Kozubowa 1422.jpg, Chapel of Saint Anne Kozubowa 1934.jpg, Original mountain hut built in 1929 Kozubowa 1426.jpg, Current mountain hut

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