A trip to the Mominka lookout tower - Horydoly.cz - Outdoor Generation

Mommy is a unique lookout tower from which you can enjoy a breathtaking view of the whole Beroun region, extensive Křivoklátské forests and the Točník Castle.Stands on top of the Ore Mountain near Hudlice.

You can park on the village square and the alley dadded on the blue hiking trail.From the ridge of the mountain you will enjoy a great view of Hudlice, Beroun and from the other side of the vast Křivoklátské forests and villages.The character of this landscape is really picturesque.Several benches will be used to relax on your way.The road to the lookout tower is only slowly rising, so even small pedestrians can go on their own or parents will take them in a stroller.

On the way to the lookout tower is a turn on the stones into a thought garden - a footpath with quotes written on wooden plates.Here you can stop and let your feet rest.Another possible stop will please your children.On a wooden sign you will learn that Hudlinos and Hudlinoska are hiding here.Who is it and where can you find them?Keep your eyes on the stopwatch and you will surely discover them.

Triangulation tower

On the site of today's lookout tower Momina stood a wooden tower in the past, which served as a triangulation tower.Surveyers built it for their trigonometric measurements.Local people used it in their own way - as a nice view of the edge.

In 2016, a lookout tower was built with a reference to this original tower and connected with the alley Dadovka.Has a bearing structure composed into a triangular pyramid shape.The wooden design of the lookout tower was designed by the architectural group Martina Rajniš.

Mommy lookout tower is 33 m high and stands at an altitude of 609 m.

On the information board at the top of the Ore Mountain under the lookout tower stands: "The wooden tower stood on the Ore Mountain.It was part of a large trigonometric network, built mainly in the nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century and in today's Czech Republic.The purpose of building this system was to refine the focus of the territory for the needs of the army and the state (formerly a monarchy).The geodes used tables with binoculars in their work, they had to see each other so that they could calculate the subsequent calculations based on the angles and the sides of the triangle (hence the trigonomic network), calculate the areas of forests, meadows and pastures, as well as towns and villages.The monuments for this measurement are trigonometric points, scattered throughout the landscape."

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