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1. View from Mückentürmchen – Heimat Memorial loop from Fojtovice

18.7km

05:48

640m

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2. View of Mückentürmchen – Kesselteich loop from Bohosudov zastávka

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470m

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3. View of the Ore Mountains – Kesselteich loop from Unčín

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530m

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February 7, 2022

The Geiersberger Pass, over which the well-known Alte Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße ran until 1860, began in what is now the Graupener (Krupka) district of Hohenstein (Unčín). Here the path coming from Teplice reached the edge of the forest behind the Mariaschein monastery (Bohosudov). From there it climbed steeply past the Geiersburg (Kyšperk) and the Goldammerkreuz, which was erected before 1785, to the ridge of the Eastern Ore Mountains. This was about 1.5 kilometers east of the Mückenberg (Komáří hůrka) at an altitude of about 720 m n.m. exceeded. After that, the route branched out. One branch followed the Alte Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße leading into the Elbe valley via the small Bohemian village of Ebersdorf, of which only a few remnants remain today. The crossing of the border was marked by the Black Cross (also erected before 1785). The Geiersbergstraße, originally leading from Hohenstein (Unčín) to the ridge, was probably carved in large parts by Graupener miners as a narrow path into the rock of the Bohemian Ore Mountain steep slope. This is still indicated today by rocky alleys, which can be seen in sections away from the current route. In the past, the descent over the Geiersberger Pass to Hohenstein (Unčín) was one of the steepest and therefore riskiest sections of the Ore Mountain passes. A travelogue from 1698 notes:

“The descent from the famous Geiersberg is not something that you pass by in silence. So you learn that when we reached the edge of the chasm, which causes the traveler to tremble with holy terror, we stopped and got out of the carriage. We sat down in the armchairs, which several porters carried down the mountains. I thought about the benefit of breaking your neck while the porters jumped from one stone to another.”

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzgebirgsp%C3%A4sse#Pass_am_Geiersberg

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Distance 2.52 km

Uphill 250 m

Downhill 10 m

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Location: Ústecký kraj, Severozápad, Czech Republic

Geiersberger Pass

1. View from Mückentürmchen – Heimat Memorial loop from Fojtovice

2. View of Mückentürmchen – Kesselteich loop from Bohosudov zastávka

3. View of the Ore Mountains – Kesselteich loop from Unčín

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