Mount Ślęża
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| Mount Ślęża | |
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 View from north-west |
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| Elevation | 718 metres (2,355 feet) |
| Location | Poland |
| Range | Masyw Ślęży |
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Mount Ślęża (IPA: [ˈɕlẽʒa]; -Polish, German: Zobten or Zobtenberg, also Silingi) is a mountain in the Sudetes Highlands (Pogórze Sudeckie) in Lower Silesia, southern Poland. This natural reserve built mostly of granite is 718 m high and covered with forests. The area was described by Ptolemy as Asciburgius in Magna Germania.
The top of the mountain has a PTTK tourist hostel and a TV and radio mast.
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[edit] Sacred mountain
During the Neolithic Period and at least as far back as the 7th century BC Mount Ślęża (Zobten) was a holy place of the heathen tribes of the Lusatian culture.[citation needed] It was then settled by the Celtic-Germanic Lugians[citation needed] The Silingi, a subpopulation of the East Germanic tribe known as the Vandals are the earliest known inhabitants of Silesia, however the greater part of them moved westwards by the 5th century and the remainder were slowly replaced in the sixth century by Slavic tribes ("people of the plain").[1] The Silingi were part of the Przeworsk culture[citation needed] The name of the territory Silesia either derives from the Sleza River, or from Mount Ślęża.[2] The hill itself was a religious center of the Silingi, and derives its name from them.[3][4]
The slavic Ślężanie tribe settled in the area when Silesia became a part of Greater Moravia, and then of Bohemia (part of the Holy Roman Empire). Duke Boleslaw I of Poland, a fiefholder of the Holy Roman Empire, conquered Silesia in 990, but lost it again to Bohemia, also a part of the empire]]. Silesia, the Latin version, was in earlier sources written as Slesia, from which developed the High German version Schlesien. Christianity came first via Cyril and Methodius, then in the 900's Bohemia received a bishopric, Prague, which was subject to the archbishopric of Mainz.
Mount Zobten/Sleza has ancient Germanic holy places dedicated to a sun deity, and remained a holy place during Christian times as well. In the first half of the 12th century, the owner of the place was Peter Wlast Dunin, (Polish: Piotr Włostowic), who founded there an Augustinian convent which was subsequently moved to Wrocław in 1153.
In 1148 the mountain is recorded as Mons Silecii.
[edit] Etymology
The Silesians may have been named after the Silingi, though this etymology is disputed; the word is perhaps derived from a Silesian word meaning "wet swampy place".
The current names of the Ślęza river and Mount Ślęża are based on Silesian origins, although the Ślęza is spelled with a standard Z and Mount Ślęża is spelled with a Ż diacritic. Names are based on earlier German documentation as Slesia.
[edit] Ślęża in art and culture
Mount Ślęża has been portayed in the famous but atypical manner of Polish independent film (in Poland called Polskie Kino Niezależne) Edi800 in the movie Ślęża Manekin Project III. More info at: http://www.manekin.org/manekin.html http://www.edi800.org/
[edit] Transmitter
On Ślęża there is a facility for FM- and TV-transmission, which uses a 136 metre tall free-standing (with additional guying) lattice tower. The current tower which was built in 1972 replaced a 98 metre tall tower built in 1958.
[edit] Broadcasts
[edit] TV
| Programme | Frequency | No of canals | Emission |
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| TVP1 Telewizja Polska S.A. | 223,25 MHz | 12 | 100 kW |
| TVP2 Telewizja Polska S.A. | 503,25 MHz | 25 | 1000 kW |
| POLSAT Telewizja Polsat S.A. | 775,25 MHz | 59 | 800 kW |
| TVP3 Wrocław Telewizja Polska S.A. Oddział we Wrocławiu | 639,25 MHz | 42 | 800 kW |
[edit] Radio
| Programme | Frequency | Emission power |
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| Radio Maryja Prowincja Warszawska Zgromadzenia O.O. Redemptorystów | 88,90 MHz | 120 kW |
| Radio ZET Radio ZET Sp. z o.o. | 93,60 MHz | 120 kW |
| PR2 Polskie Radio S.A. | 98,80 MHz | 120 kW |
| PR3 Polskie Radio S.A. | 100,20 MHz | 120 kW |
| Radio Wrocław Polskie Radio - Regionalna Rozgłośnia we Wrocławiu "Radio Wrocław" S.A. | 102,30 MHz | 120 kW |
| Radio ESKA Wrocław Radio ESKA S.A. | 104,90 MHz | 60 kW |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ T. Hunt Tooley "National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border", 1997 University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803244290 p.6 (Google Books)
- ^ Adrian Room "Placenames of the World", McFarland 2004m ISBN 0786418141 p.333 (Google books)
- ^ Adrian Room "Placenames of the World", McFarland 2004m ISBN 0786418141 p.333 (Google books)
- ^ Anthony Richard Birley, "Agricola and Germany" 1999, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192833006 p.130 (Notes to pages 56-60) (Google books)
