{"id":4248,"date":"2017-07-17T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/2017\/07\/17\/pout-krkonosska\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:26:09","slug":"pout-krkonosska","status":"publish","type":"aktivity","link":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/aktivity\/pout-krkonosska\/","title":{"rendered":"The Krkono\u0161e pilgrimage: journey from Prague to Sn\u011b\u017eka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer wanderings<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Krkono\u0161e pilgrimage: journey from Prague to Sn\u011b\u017eka<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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through M\u011bln\u00edk, Koko\u0159\u00ednsko, Bezd\u011bz, Pojize\u0159\u00ed and Bohemian Paradise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

dedicated this time to Rainer Maria Rilke<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 18 \u2014 August 28, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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"I set out and my eyes, no less, had long since lost sight of the sunny hills. Thus, something we do not understand seizes us, a revelation that rains down from afar - even if we may not reach it, something changes us into what we are, the unknown; it interprets sign after sign ... and we only perceive the headwind."\n\u2014<\/strong> Rainer Maria Rilke, A Walk<\/pre>\n\n\n
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\u201cOh tell me, poet, what are you doing? \u2013 I celebrate. But deadly, what monstrously goes dark, how do you endure it, how do you accept it? \u2013 I celebrate. But, poet, how do you call the nameless, the anonymous by its true name? \u2013 I celebrate. Where did you get the right, that you are the truth, the exhorter in every costume, in every mask? \u2013 I celebrate. That the quiet, the thunder that thunders, the storm, knows you? \u2013 Because I celebrate.\u201d\n\u2014<\/strong> Rainer Marie Rilke, O Tell Me, Poet...<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Friday, August 18th \/ walk through Prague through poetry<\/em>: <\/strong>We will meet at 10 am at Charles Square <\/em>at the lower fountain, near the house where the poet Karel Hynek M\u00e1cha lived. From here we will set off on the planned route paths of poetry<\/em> Prague poets to Vy\u0161ehrad, then along the embankment along the Vltava to the National Theatre and further across the Legions Bridge to Kampa to the house where the poet Vladim\u00edr Holan once lived. Here, under the \u201cHolan plane tree\u201d, we will remember the outstanding German poet and playwright and one of the greatest manifestations of 20th century poetry, Rainer Maria Rilko (1875-1926)<\/strong>, who was born on December 4, 1875 in Prague on Jind\u0159i\u0161sk\u00e1 Street. Rilke graduated from the gymnasium (Na p\u0159\u00edkop\u011b) in Prague and also studied at the university there and lived here until 1895. He declared about himself:"I am from Prague, but of Russian blood, and it is just a coincidence that my native language is German."<\/em> We will remember Rilke's early years, his poetic work connected to Prague and read some of his poems. From Kampa we will then head up the slope of Pet\u0159\u00edn to the statue of Jaroslav Vrchlick\u00fd and further through Prague Castle and Chotkovy sady to Letn\u00e1. We will end the journey at the Alchymista caf\u00e9 in Letn\u00e1 between 2 and 3 p.m.                                              <\/p>\n\n\n
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"We are the ones who drive; however, take haste only as a sigh in eternal duration. When all the hustle and bustle has been absorbed into itself, time, which knows how to linger, will dedicate us."\n\u2014<\/strong> Rainer Marie Rilke (Sonnets to Orpheus)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Pilgrimage of the Giant Mountains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
We will embark on our own journey on Saturday, August 19th at 8 am from the observatory in L\u00e1dv\u00ed<\/strong>. The best way to get here from the center of Prague is by metro to L\u00e1dv\u00ed station, from there on foot to the L\u00e1dv\u00ed observatory on a beautiful rocky promontory with an iron cross. From L\u00e1dv\u00ed we will follow the yellow sign to \u010e\u00e1blice and from there along a dirt road to Zdib. Further to Zdibsko, Sedlec and through the forest to Panensk\u00e9 B\u0159e\u017eany, where we will see the beautiful Baroque chapel of St. Anne by architect Jan Bla\u017eej Santini. From there we will head to \u010cenkov and through the charming natural monument Kope\u010d and Net\u0159ebsk\u00e1 slaniska we will reach Ob\u0159\u00edstv\u00ed on the banks of the Elbe. Here we will have lunch and then cross the Art Nouveau bridge at \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n and along its course we will reach the confluence of the Elbe and the Vltava under the castle in M\u011bln\u00edk. We will spend the night under a canopy on the other bank of the Elbe in Ho\u0159\u00ednsk\u00fd Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunday, August 20 <\/strong>We will meet at 8 a.m. at the viewpoint above the confluence of the Vltava and Elbe rivers at the M\u011bln\u00edk castle. From there, we will follow the red M\u00e1cha path sign towards Chloumek, where we will visit the pilgrimage church and cemetery. We will then travel to Lhotka, Harasov, Koko\u0159\u00edn and further through Vojt\u011bchov, Ole\u0161no and R\u00e1j to Houska. We will visit the beech grove behind Houska castle, the Na konci sil pub and go down to Hostince pod Houskou. We will spend the night under a \u0161ir\u00e1k or in an inn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday, August 21 <\/strong>we will go through Borejov (<\/em>where we will visit the Church of St. James the Elder with a modern altarpiece of the pilgrim St. James the Greater), \u017dd\u00edrec and Windows on the Mountain and Castle Bezdez;<\/em> we will visit the beautiful Gothic chapel here, in which we will read a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. <\/strong>Then we will head to B\u011bl\u00e1 pod Bezd\u011bzem and from there follow the blue trail through Bitouchov to the ruins of Zv\u00ed\u0159etnice Castle. Our friend will visit us here in the evening, M\u00e1chov researcher Mr. Miroslav Koloc<\/strong>&nbwithp;with&nbwithp;telling the story of the poet Karel Hynek M\u00e1cha's journey through the Pojize\u0159\u00ed region.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n
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"Oh, not to be separated, not to be excluded from the law of the stars by a thin wall. For what is the interior, if not the high sky, woven with the flight of birds, and the deep, with the winds that return home?"\n\u2014<\/strong> Rainer Maria Rilke<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, August 22 <\/strong>we will set off along the Jizera River to Mal\u00e1 B\u011bl\u00e1 and then through Nov\u00e1 Ves to the Ra\u010dov National Nature Monument with moorland meadows and wetland alders, around the St. Prokop spring through the Kloko\u010dka field to the Hradi\u0161t\u011b nad Jizerou Monastery and to Mnichovo Hradi\u0161t\u011b. From there we will continue along the red trail to the Bohemian Paradise, first to M\u00e1cha's favorite rock castle Vale\u010dov and then along the green trail to the Kom\u00e1rovsk\u00fd pond, where we will swim. We will then set off along the green trail and then along the red trail to the Kost Castle, from there along the blue trail through Dob\u0161ice to Vyske\u0159, in front of which we will spend the night in a meadow by the forest. If it is clear, it will be possible to observe the starry sky without light pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday, August 23 <\/strong>We will ascend the Stations of the Cross to the chapel on Vyske\u0159 (466 m above sea level) and from there we will continue along the blue trail to Hrub\u00e1 sk\u00e1la and then along the red trail to Trosky. From Trosky along the green trail and then along the red trail through Mlad\u011bjov to the rock castle of Pa\u0159ez, near which we will spend the night in a rocky overhang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thursday, August 24 <\/strong>we will follow the green trail through the Prachov Rocks to Prachov and from there follow the blue trail through P\u0159iv\u00fd\u0161ina, Brad and Kbelnice to Ji\u010d\u00edn, where we will have lunch. We will visit the Wallenstein Loggia and Zeb\u00edn. In the evening we will follow the green trail to \u017deleznice and further through Bradleck\u00e1 Lhota and the ruins of Bradlec Castle to the ruins of Kumburk Castle, where we will spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n
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"Breath, you poem of pure breath! You are the universe, which I exchange for my own being constantly and directly. A balancing in which it is rhythmic for me to be born. You are the only wave that I have slowed down by the sea, I the creature; you are the most economical of possible seas, \u2013 a game of space."\n\u2014<\/strong> Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Friday, August 25th <\/strong>\u2013 we will hike along the red trail to Nov\u00e1 Paka and then continue along the red trail through Radkyn\u011b to Pecky. From there, follow the yellow trail under Jelen\u00ed h\u0159bet to Borovnice and further under \u010cisteck\u00e1 h\u016fra (586 m above sea level), where we will spend the night at the edge of the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saturday, August 26 <\/strong>we will follow the yellow path over \u010cisteck\u00e1 h\u016fra to \u010cist\u00e1 and from there we will continue along the dirt road to Bukovina u Studenec and further along the road to Studenec; from there we will follow the red path to Str\u00e1\u017en\u00edk hill (630 m above sea level). From Str\u00e1\u017en\u00edk, follow the blue path to Martinice v Krkono\u0161e and to Horn\u00ed Bran\u00e1. We will pass Horn\u00ed Bran\u00e1 to Valte\u0159ice and from there we will follow the blue path to the foot of the Krkono\u0161e, where we will spend the night in the meadows under the forest (we will possibly sleep in our makeshift hayloft).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunday, August 27th <\/strong>We will follow the blue trail to the K\u0159\u00ed\u017eovka crossroads on the border of the Krkono\u0161e National Park and from there the yellow trail to P\u0159edn\u00ed \u017dal\u00fd (1018 m asl). We will continue along the ridge along the red trail to \u010cern\u00e1 sk\u00e1la (1038 m asl) and further to Mechovinec (1074 m asl) and Horn\u00ed M\u00edse\u010dky, from where we will descend along the red trail to \u0160pindler\u016fv Ml\u00fdn, where we will have lunch. From \u0160pindler\u016fv Ml\u00fdn we will set off along the yellow trail through the B\u00edl\u00e9 Labe Valley to Lu\u010dn\u00ed bouda. We will spend the night at the Lu\u010dn\u00ed bouda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday, August 28 <\/strong>We will climb to the sunrise on Sn\u011b\u017eka (1602 m above sea level). From the top of Sn\u011b\u017eka we will descend via Ob\u0159\u00ed D\u016fl to Pec pod Sn\u011b\u017ekou and from there we will return by bus to Prague. Or we will take the road via Horn\u00ed M\u00edse\u010dky to Horn\u00ed Mar\u0161ov and from there by bus to Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\u201cOh life, oh life, your time, a strange, contradictory journey and burden, a creeping, miserable trace or furrow, like an angel, but suddenly raises its wings again to ineffable distances, \u2026 Can one of all the courageous beings burn more boldly, emit a greater sparkle? Each one crosses its limits, feels the unknowable, wants to captivate them, \u2026\u201c\n\u2014<\/strong> Rainer Maria Rilke<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
NOTICE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If you do not go with us for the entire journey, you can join us anywhere, preferably at the main points of the route (M\u011bln\u00edk, Houska, Mnichovo Hradi\u0161t\u011b, Ji\u010d\u00edn, Pecka, \u0160pindler\u016fv Ml\u00fdn, etc.) and go with us for as long as you want. We do not provide accommodation in advance. We sleep under the stars. If you want to insure your accommodation, please book it yourself. Everyone is free on the journey and is responsible for themselves. We only ask for tolerance towards other pilgrims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bus connection on August 28 from Pec to Prague<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pec pod Sn\u011b\u017ekou \/ departure: 10:20 \u2013 Prague, \u010cern\u00fd most \/ arrival: 13:12; departure: 11:50 \u2013 Prague, \u010cern\u00fd most \/ arrival 17:10; departure: 15:05 \u2013 Prague, \u010cern\u00fd most \/ arrival 20:03<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PILGRIM \/ CONTACT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hr\u016fza, tomashruza@gmail.com, mobile: 775 052 607<\/li>
  • Ji\u0159\u00ed Zem\u00e1nek, sarvanga@centrum.cz, mobile: 777 117 466<\/li>
  • Karel \u010ctveracek, ctv@seznam.cz, 603 355 072<\/li>
  • Vladimir Dr\u00e1bek, drabekvladimir00@gmail.com, mobile: 602 646 665<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"featured_media":5061,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[10],"class_list":["post-4248","aktivity","type-aktivity","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-velke-machovske-putovani","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aktivity\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aktivity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aktivity"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}