Skalka lookout tower near Vyžlovka - has always been useless and now even more

Skalka lookout tower near Vyžlovka - has always been useless and now even more

The Skalka lookout tower was open to the public free of charge in 2012.Pay for entry began in 2015.From that time remained at the entrance of the turnstile.Was closed in 2019.Since then they get up only courageous.She passed into private hands in 2021.

Although the lookout tower is glued with a state of disrepair, you can climb a little skill on a metal gate, put on the cannons and climb the staircase on the staircase.After it comfortably comes out on a covered viewing platform.

Attractive outlook is missing

The design of the Skalka lookout tower is wooden and a metal spiral staircase is built into it.The viewing platform is covered with a wooden roof.The total height of the lookout tower is 25 meters, the viewing platform is at twenty -one meters above the surrounding terrain.Leads to her 105 steps.The foundations stand at an altitude of 455 m.

Part of the Czech Central Mountains, Ralsko, Bezděz and some massifs of the Giant Mountains, Králický Sněžník and the Orlické Mountains can be seen for very good visibility.The outlook on the distant hills will not amaze.

From the closer targets at the end of the Šembery valley Krki Český Brod, towards the Elbe shows industrial Neratovice and Říp, on the other side you can see a piece of Village Village and wooded back above Jevany ponds.The attractive valley of the Jevanský brook with several ponds is hidden behind the horizon, as well as Voděradské Bučiny.

At the bottom of the lookout tower is installed freely accessible artificial climbing wall.Two trips on color stages and tabs are only clinging with the upper protection.

Rozhledna Skalka u Vyžlovky - vždy byla k ničemu a teď ještě víc

Halfway between Vyžlovka and Lažany

Vyžlovka is a village halfway to important communication Prague - Kutná Hora.Led approximately along the current old road from Jevan.This was the silver, or the fuel of the rise of medieval Bohemia among the most important countries of Europe.In the early Scent was even more important connection between the two largest cities of Bohemia - Přemyslid Prague and Zličanská Kouřimí.

The request belonged to the Smiřice since 1334.After the Thirty Years' War, however, only four cottages remained here.Development occurred under the Princess of Savoy, who had a summer mansion built.Today serves as a hotel and a pub.

Lažany was a village in the valley of the nameless stream leading to Šembera.Today it can only be seen as an off -road inequality under gardening near the lookout tower Skalka near Lytně.It was first appointed in 1358, when Knight Bohunek Hájek of Chrást judged with the Cistercians of Klášterní Skalice about the border of the village of Slíhlice, the court of Lažan, also the new court, and the forest on the goat back with the mountain Hradiště, today referred to as old or barren castles.After Bohuňka's death, King Charles IV awarded in 1360.Chrástský farm inherited in the fief of his son Litold Hájek of Chrást and in the list, in addition to the villages of Chrást, Good Water, Kozojed, Slavic and Slíhlice, the village of Lažany is explicitly mentioned and not a mere court, as in the report from 1358.After Hájce he acquired the village of Jindřich of Lažany, who was again judged by the Skalice Monastery in 1395 - 1396.

The archaeological survey showed that the village disappeared into 1300, but after several decades it was re -populated.There was a fortress and houses in a terraced arrangement in the village.It can be concluded that it was a late internal colonization at 13.Century, therefore, assume that it was built by the German population.However, the low -rich water resource and the disadvantageous location of the village due to the intensification of agricultural production led to the demise of Lažan after 1400.

On the outskirts of the village stood a fortress from which the terrain relic has been preserved.Well visible is a circular fortress with a diameter of 62 m and a perimeter of 160 m with an adjacent building of the farm yard.The fortress was fortified by a ramp of 2-3 meters, protected by a pond and a water ditch.From the fortress and courtyard it led the way to Lyklovka in 1958.

Transport

By car you will probably arrive on the old Kutná Hora road and turn on the side road towards Sloshice.Skalka lookout tower stands right by the road.Below it is a small unpaid parking lot.

On a road bike or scooter you can use the marked cycle route no.1 Prague - Brno, which in the local section runs along the side roads from Uhříněves (railway station) through Královice, Křenice, Babice, Mukařov, Žernovka, Slim, Vyžlovka, Jevany, Konojedy, Oleška and Dobrá Pole to Kouřim (railway station).It is a total of 41 kilometers with an elevation of 400 meters.

On the mountain bike is an interesting route from Říčany (railway station), which offers medium difficulty and a varied ride through the landscape.The blue tourist trail goes through the Říčany forest, then through the Genoa forest, around Mukařov to Louňovice.After the Kutná Hora road to the Lock.If we want to avoid busy roads, we will take it from Louňovičky around the pond stump to the church in Vyžlovka.At the last building in Vyžlovka we turn left on the forest grave and it will lead us to the red hiking trail along the Šembera River.In two places we will probably dismount from the bike and we would rather walk through the rocky sections.After the mark we will reach Český Brod.(station).The long hike is 28 kilometers, an elevation of 200 meters and from Vyžlovka goes mostly with the hills down.

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