Peak Lausche (Luž) States Saxony and Bohemia Highest point Lausche Parent range Western Sudetes | Elevation 793 m (2,602 ft) Type of rock Sandstone and Granite Country Czech Republic Types of rock Sandstone, Granite | |
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Countries Germany and Czech Republic Mountains Lausche, Sokol, Töpfer, Jánské kameny, Kälbersteine | ||
Fisher s hornpipe old time music from lusatian mountains
The Lusatian Mountains (Czech: Lužické hory; German: Lausitzer Gebirge; Polish: Góry Łużyckie) are a mountain range of the Western Sudetes on the southeastern border of Germany with the Czech Republic. They are a continuation of the Ore Mountains range west of the Elbe valley. The mountains of the northern, German, part are called the Zittau Mountains.
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- Fisher s hornpipe old time music from lusatian mountains
- Map of Lusatian Mountains 471 51 Svor Czechia
- Puncheon floor old time music from lusatian mountains
- GeographyEdit
- Mountains and hillsEdit
- References
Map of Lusatian Mountains, 471 51 Svor, Czechia
Puncheon floor old time music from lusatian mountains
GeographyEdit
The range is among the westernmost extensions of the Sudetes, which stretch along the border between the historic region of Silesia in the north, and Bohemia and Moravia in the south up to the Moravian Gate in the east, where they join the Carpathian Mountains. The northwestern foothills of the Lusatian Mountains are called the Lusatian Highlands; in the southwest the range borders on the České Středohoří mountains.
The range is largely made up of sandstone sedimentary rocks leaning on a Precambrian crystalline basement. The northern ridge is marked by the Lusatian Fault, a geological disturbance zone separating the Bohemian sandstones from the Lusatian granodiorite. During the Tertiary volcanic magma streams broke through the sandstone layer and solidified into basalt and phonolite. Several sandstone contact areas were also hardened to columns and distinct rock formations.
Both the German (Zittau Mountain Nature Park) and the Czech (Lusatian Mountain Nature Park or ChKO Lužické hory) parts nowadays are protected areas according to IUCN guidelines.
Mountains and hillsEdit
The highest peak is the Lausche (793 m). Other notable peaks include the Pěnkavčí vrch (792m), Jedlová (774m), Klíč (760m), Hochwald (750m) and Studenec (736m).