{"id":4264,"date":"2014-07-12T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/2014\/07\/12\/"},"modified":"2021-01-23T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:20:17","slug":"putovani-zeleznymi-horami","status":"publish","type":"aktivity","link":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/aktivity\/putovani-zeleznymi-horami\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering through the Iron Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Other wanderings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wandering through the Iron Mountains<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\"Ronov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronov nad Doubravou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiking through the \u017delezn\u00e9 Mountains from Ronov nad Doubravou through Lichnice and Ka\u0148kova Mountains, and through the valleys of the Doubrava and Chrudimka rivers to Kameni\u010dky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 21-23, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRonov brings back unforgettable memories for me\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>Anton\u00edn CHITTUSS<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

"Only outside, where there are strong impressions, could over time create something almost like a work of art..."<\/em><\/p>Antonin SLAVICEK<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the journey, organized as part of the exhibition project \u201cHay, straw. Work in the landscape and natural processes in art\u201d (OG Vyso\u010dina in Jihlava), we will connect the places of work of two great Czech landscape painters. We will start it in Ronov nad Doubravou, where the painter Anton\u00edn Chittussi (1847-1891) was born, who was inspired by the local landscape to create several important paintings in the 1880s, and we will end it in Kameni\u010dky, representing the gateway to the \u017d\u010f\u00e1rsk\u00e9 vrchy, where in 1903-1907 the painter Anton\u00edn Slav\u00ed\u010dek (1870-1910), a generation older, created a significant chapter of his work. Both of these remarkable artists, who were guided by nature in their work, incorporated Czech landscape painting into the development of European art. On our journey, we will try to connect the discovery of the places where both of these artists worked with the discovery of the unique and exceptionally rich nature of the southwestern part of the Iron Mountains, including the nature of the Hlinecko region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiking route<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ronov nad Doubravou \u2013 Lov\u011bt\u00ednsk\u00e1 ravine \u2013 Lichnice \u2013 Chittussi valley \u2013 Ka\u0148kova mountains \u2013 Se\u010d dam \u2013 Kloko\u010dov \u2013 Modlet\u00edn \u2013 Sp\u00e1lava \u2013 Doln\u00ed Bradlo \u2013 Polom \u2013 Vesel\u00fd Kopec \u2013 Chrudimka valley \u2013 Hlinsko \u2013 Kameni\u010dky \u2013 Hlinsko (70 km). <\/em>You can complete the entire hiking route with us or join us anywhere. We kindly ask interested parties to contact us using the contact details provided at the end of the invitation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1: Monday, July 21 (25 km)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We will meet in Prague at the main train station, from where we will take the train to Ronov nad Doubravou at 8:00 a.m. (with a change in \u010c\u00e1slav), where we will arrive at 9:38 a.m. In Ronov, we will remember the most famous local native, painter Anton\u00edn Chittussiho, and some of his famous paintings with landscape motifs from the foothills of the \u017delezn\u00e9 Mountains: especially the painting \u201cFrom the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands\u201d (1882), in which, in depicting the natural state of stones, he expressed something of the mysterious geological story and the special ancient monumentality that characterizes the local landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anton\u00edn Chittussi, From the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands (1882)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From Ronov we will follow the red trail to the top of the distinctive, long southwestern ridge of the \u017delezn\u00e9 Mountains, which is the geological dominant of the region, to the Lichnice \u2013 Ka\u0148kova Mountains Nature Park. This nature park is characterized by its remarkable geomorphology and unique diversity of animals and plants, especially preserved beech forests. We will climb to the Krkanka peak (567 m above sea level) and continue to Lovetin Gorge<\/strong>, from which we climb to the ruins of a medieval castle Lichen<\/strong>, which evokes an ancient megalithic cult site. We will continue past the \u017di\u017eek Oak (800 years old) to Hedwig's Valley<\/strong> and through the town of T\u0159emo\u0161nice to the Doubrava Nature Park. Following the yellow trail we will walk through the valley along the meanders of the boulder riverbed Doubrava river<\/strong> (today Chittussi Valley), which once inspired Anton\u00edn Chittussi to create the painting \u201cDoubravka Valley at Dusk\u201d (1886). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anton\u00edn Chittussi, Doubravka Valley at Dusk (1886)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this work, the artist wanted to create a typically Czech monumental landscape, the characteristic features of which are antiquity, simplicity, poverty and wistful melancholy. We will continue through the valley that stretches from Ronov to Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017eov, where there is a memorable beech tree and the originally Romanesque church of St. Mary Magdalene. From there we will head to the Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017eov dam (one of the oldest dam reservoirs in our country \/ 1908-1913) and then along the blue path to B\u011bstvina with the originally Gothic church of John the Baptist, rebuilt in the 18th century by architect Jan Santini Aichl. Then we will continue to the crossroads of Kub\u00edk's oak on the ridge of the \u017delezn\u00e9 Mountains at the border with the Ka\u0148kova Mountains - Lichnice nature park and from there along the red path to the solitude of Javorka up to Se\u010d Dam.<\/strong> Along its banks, we head to its eastern part, to Doln\u00ed Ves, where we will find a place to swim and spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2: Tuesday, July 22 (25 km):<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the morning we will set off from Nov\u00e1 Ves along the red trail to the neighboring village of Kloko\u010dov, where there is a remarkable memorial. Kloko\u010dovsk\u00e1 linden tree<\/strong> large-leaved (trunk circumference 888 cm), whose age is estimated at 1000 years. This tree, under which King Wenceslas IV supposedly rested, also had a cult, boundary and orientation significance. An exemplary conservation of the tree's cavity was carried out in 1935 by ing. Fri\u010d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kloko\u010dovsk\u00e1 linden tree, large-leaved<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From Kloko\u010dov we will continue along the red trail to Modlet\u00edn with the Baroque church of St. Anne and a spring with healing water, and from there we will continue along the yellow trail to the second highest peak of the \u017delezn\u00e9 hory, the hill Burning<\/strong> (663 m above sea level), below which is the village of the same name with another memorable linden tree, whose age is estimated to be over 500 years. From Sp\u00e1lava we continue via Velk\u00e1 St\u0159\u00edte\u017e to the village of Lipka with a memorable small-leaved linden tree (trunk circumference 870 cm), whose age is estimated to be 800 years; and from there to the former glassmaking village of Horn\u00ed Bradlo and further along the green to Polom nature reserve <\/strong>with the trunks of massive old trees, which once formed part of the extensive medieval \u201cLibe\u010dsk\u00fd hvozd\u201d. From Polom we continue under Zubersk\u00fd vrch (650 m above sea level) with a lookout tower to Zub\u0159\u00ed village<\/strong> with a well-preserved ensemble of folk architecture, near which there is a nature reserve of the same name, and from there to the town Market Kamenice<\/strong> associated with the work of the writer Karel V\u00e1clav Rais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anton\u00edn Chittussi, Chrudimka Valley (1887)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From Trhov\u00e1 Kamenice we will set off along the green valley of the Chrudimka River along the Ml\u00fdnsk\u00fd and Zadn\u00ed ponds to the village Free Hamry<\/strong>It is a village conservation area with a unique ensemble of folk architecture, including the original hamr, which is part ofCollection of folk buildings of the Vyso\u010dina region,<\/strong> which is located in the following village Merry Hill<\/strong>. We will visit this open-air museum of folk architecture and continue along the meandering Chrudimka River to Kr\u00e1lova Pila. In this context, we will recall Anton\u00edn Chittussi's painting "Chrudimka Valley" (1887), with the figure of a pilgrim, in which the painter uniquely expressed the humid atmosphere of the fresh green summer landscape after rain with a haze floating over the forests. We will end the day either by spending the night at the pond at the Na Dol\u00edku Forest or we will continue along the green path through V\u00edtanov (where Chittussi's follower, the painter Franti\u0161ek Kav\u00e1n, worked in the years 1904-1922) to Hlinsko, where we will possibly spend the night in a tourist hostel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day: Wednesday, July 23 (20 km):<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Early in the morning we will set off either from Hlinsko along the blue trail to Hamry and from there to the village of L\u00e1ny and from there further along the green trail to Stone,<\/strong>near which we will visit Vojt\u011bch's Hill (674 m above sea level) with a wide circular viewpoint and the famous Vol\u00e1k's Hill<\/strong>, which is directly connected with the work of the painter Anton\u00edn Slav\u00ed\u010dek<\/strong>We will also visit the local Anton\u00edn Slav\u00ed\u010dek Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The writer KV Rais inspired this painter to stay in Kameni\u010dky with his work. Slav\u00ed\u010dek lived and worked here continuously from 1903 to 1907. He was fascinated by the harsh, authentic life of the local poor people, deeply connected with the fate of the local landscape, which resonated with Slav\u00ed\u010dek's own creative ethos. In his paintings, the artist captured the simple, austere beauty of the rural landscape and the greatness and beauty of the fate of rural people. In monumental paintings such as "U n\u00e1s v Kameni\u010dky" he achieved a generous symbolic generalization of this motif as the "journey of life". In small sketches from the end of this creative stage of his, Slav\u00ed\u010dek achieved a remarkable artistic shortcut and a relaxation of the painterly style, which already have a thoroughly modern character. In the afternoon, we will return from Kameni\u010dky via an alternative route (the green one) back to Hlinsko and from there in the evening by train via Pardubice back to Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If we can, we will try to see the exhibition of the German painter Maxmili\u00e1n Haushofer (21.6.-7.9.) and his students at the Municipal Museum and Gallery in Hlinsko on the last day of our trip. Maxmili\u00e1n Haushofer (1811-1866) was a professor of landscape painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and his students included Julius Ma\u0159\u00e1k and Adolf Kos\u00e1rek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accommodations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We do not make any reservations in advance. If possible, we sleep outside under the open sky. However, if you want to arrange accommodation in a hostel or in a private house - the first day at the Se\u010d Dam and the second day in Svobodne Hamry or Hlinsko - please arrange it yourself in advance. The cheapest accommodation in Hlinsko is in Chalupa na Betl\u00e9m (for 250 CZK): Eli\u0161ka B\u0159ezinov\u00e1 (608 566 002). For further information, please contact the Tourist Information Centre in Hlinsko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transport<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Train connection: Prague \u2013 Ronov nad Doubravou \/ Monday, July 21:<\/strong> departure from Prague main station: 8:00amarrival in \u010c\u00e1slav: 9:06am, departure 9:14amarrival in Ronov nad Doubravou: 9:38am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hlinsko \u2013 Prague \/ Wednesday, July 23:<\/strong> departure from Hlinsko: 18:58arrival in Pardubice: 20:13, departure: 20:18arrival in Prague main station: 21:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact and further information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ji\u0159\u00ed Zem\u00e1nek, email: sarvanga@centrum.cz, mobile: 777 117 466Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hr\u016fza, email: tomashruza@gmail.com, mobile: 775 052 607<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6345,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[6],"class_list":["post-4264","aktivity","type-aktivity","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ostatni-putovani","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aktivity\/4264","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\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}