Krucze Mountains

#323 among destinations in Czech Republic

Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature

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The Krucze Mountains are the Eastern part of the Stone Mountains, which belong to the Central Sudetes on the border of the Czech Republic and Poland. To the West and North-Western part the mountain range borders the Lubawska Plateau and the Karkonosze Mountains, to the North-Eastern part they border the mountain range Czarny Las, from the East they border the sediment basin Kotlina Krzeszowska and the Zawory mountain range and to the South the mountain range borders the Czech part of the Stołowe Mountains. To the Southern ridge of mountain range is the Polish-Czech border. The border crossing for cars is in Lubawka and for tourists is in Okrzeszyn. ()

Local name: Vraní hory Maximum elevation: 2890 ftCoordinates: 50°39'28"N, 15°59'18"E

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KrálovéhradeckýCzech Republic

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Krucze Mountains – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stachelberg, Rýchory, Dvorský les, Hrad Adršpach.

3.8 miSW
Military museum, Lookout, History museum
Stachelberg, Trutnov
98 min walk • The Stachelberg fortress is one of the largest fortresses in the Czech Republic. It was built as a complex of 12 bunkers between 1937 and 1938 as a Czechoslovak fort. However, the process of construction was stopped due to the Munich Agreement in 1938. Therefore, the fortress has never been finished.
5.4 miW
Mountain
Rýchory, Krkonoše National Park
138 min walk • Rýchory is a mountain ridge in the Czech Republic lying in the eastern Giant Mountains. It is the easternmost tip of the Giant Mountains, forming a broad belt of forested ridges from Horní Lysečiny over the Mravenečník hill to the Sklenářovický hill.
5.4 miW
Mountain
Dvorský les, Krkonoše National Park
139 min walk • Dvorský les is a mountain in the Czech Republic. It is the highest peak of Rýchory ridge in Krkonoše mountain range.
5.6 miSE
Ruins
Hrad Adršpach, Adršpach
144 min walk • Adršpach is a ruin of a medieval castle about 2 km west of the village of Adršpach in the Náchod district on the hardly accessible rock plateau of Zámecký vrch at 681 m above sea level. It has been protected as a cultural monument since 1964.
4.9 miSW
Concentration camp
Gabersdorf labour camp
124 min walk • The Gabersdorf forced labour camp, later a Nazi concentration camp, was located at Libeč in Czechoslovakia. In the camp, Jewish women were detained who worked at the textile factories of Hasse and company, Etrich, and Vereinigte Textilwerke K. H. Barthel.
~130 ftSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Královecký Špičák
1 min walk • Královecký Špičák-a peak in the Czech Republic, in the Central Sudetes, in the southwestern part of the Kruczych Mountains.

Krucze Mountains

Facts and practical information

Krucze Mountains – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Stachelberg, Trutnov

Rýchory, Krkonoše National Park

Dvorský les, Krkonoše National Park

Hrad Adršpach, Adršpach

Gabersdorf labour camp

Královecký Špičák