How much all this is the truth, and how much the legend of never be know. History is in fact an old and half forgotten. Is based on the archetype associated with the eternal, the universal dream to get rich, at least enough to neighbors jaw dropped.
One day, a thing occurred in the middle Seventeenth century, the lord of the castle Czocha-Christine von Nostiz, made his head to rest in an inconspicuous spot on the river at the foot of the mountain Kwisa. Then he dreamed a beautiful dream. According to some sources, I dreamed a tree studded with gold leaves, others sources say a lump of gold, which Nostiz held in his left hand. Important and fateful thing is that Chris has treated this dream as a prophetic and ordered to look for gold near the place where the dream he has revealed.
gold exploration dates back to thirteenth in the Sudetenland century, ie the time when the devastation of Silesia by the Mongol hordes, brought settlers to the area from distant Europe. In search of precious metals and then specialized Walloons. However, they did not reach the Foothills Mountains. For the seventeenth century, not of gold was mined here until the time of the famous dream Nostiza.
Yes, centuries ago, gold was mined in opencast.
Note that the guy in the center of the picture looks gold wand!
's prototype detector Metal! :-)
In the wake of the gold rush, which woke the owner of the castle Czocha, arrived en masse at this place the people of Bohemia and Silesia, the more that far do not have. Soon, when the city was located on the grounds under German law and called the Goldentraum (Golden Dream) - Złotniki LUBAŃSKI today.
Złotniki Such a view I have on daily walks with psiakami.
are not as close as it appears in the photograph. There might be a broad trough Kwisa.
Gold mining lasted for decades. The deposits were small and quickly exhausted. The town fell into decline with time, and people are retrained, they took their weaving and farming. Today
Luban goldsmiths in remembrance of those times, remained at the site marked out, the market with a pretty, but in an extreme state of ruin, centrally located home spa. Most likely, centuries ago, in his place stood the town hall.
Spa house, or rather its remains poor, persistently
and commonly called the town hall.
Złotniki before the war
beautiful legend and must be in the ambiguous truth, but to acknowledge it fully, you would find any traces of the mining operations. Gold certainly mined by this method, because the miner could be seen goldsmith coat of arms with the relevant tools.
Such sticker-stamps were added in the interwar years
for food products (coffee, chocolate, cigarettes) .
Sources are silent on the exact location of złotnickich pits, although some mention of the mountain. Złotniki are not situated at the top, but right next to the other side of the river Kwisa, rises the highest peak in the whole of our region-Złotnicka Czuba (436 m).
Złotniki on an old postcard. In the background of hill-Złotnicka Czuba.
We live for this elevation.
live at her feet, but on the other side than Złotniki. From the perspective of our house (350 m), Czuba is just a hill, not even noticed by the people. Evidenced by the fact that few of the villagers know that the "hill" that has any name. But Just look at it from another location, even from the other end of our little village to embrace her majesty.
Czuba, a hill, from the perspective of our property
One day, as it happened 361 years later, another Christopher sat down at the table and told me he believed that Nostiz, hands of his subjects, to escape the gold Zlotnicki Czubie and connecting with her Long Kałużniance (415 m). Bearing witness to the hole, which my explorer spotted in the bushes and ferns. Possible excavation, as I live like this, commemorated the appropriate array holes on the way to Lwówek Slaski. About the possible exploration of our Czuby świdczyć maybe its old name or Rammsen Ramsen. Core "Ramm" suggests the German "pile driver" or the verb "to hammer".
Without thinking, in your free time, I wrapped up with the peasant to Syfa and went to investigate these findings and meditate in the field of peasant thesis.
Dumam the thesis
Indeed, when he fell ferns, and the new vegetation has not yet exuberant, you can see that northern slope of mountains, it is all full of holes. Here and there he meets a pile of stones, as if someone had put off them aside.
rejected in advance the local kids play in the "Four armored" and in the Silesian wars, because it would have to be bulldozed, not a normal human offspring. The argument put on the spot Baby, saying that a stone was mined to build houses in the village, was rejected because, with the number of wells, on such a big area, it would have created here at least the town. In addition, in the village stones from the fields is all too much.
the pictures is not very visible, but is there a hole in the hole
puzzling and puzzling is the one when we, the northern slope is so deeply lined, a slope south, closer to the goldsmiths, looks barely touched. Workings there are sporadic. Not wanting to be poorer and a bit envious of discovery, and perhaps historic and groundbreaking, theses peasant, had plotted for his version, Follow-up Baby. And what for? A villagers Fogelsdorf (Zapust) and Steinabach (Kałużna) had to be worse? Maybe this is the wave Nostiza awakened by the gold rush, they went upstairs, he had under his breath, and they zoralie its northern slope? After all, the goldsmith is a long way away. Can some locals would przybłędom from across the river, to extract the gold? And maybe people here have worked for Nostiza?
Czuby view from the summit towards Kwisa and Goldsmith
view from the summit of the eastern mountainside
beech forest on the southern slope of
'm going down the slope in the south, I want to Kwisa finally see.
And finally I have it in the frame. Water table is located 306 meters above sea level
've gone the brink of destruction.
Balancing the abyss look back on looking out of the trees Złotniki
Kwisa And this from the view of the goldsmith Czuba
come back a different route to the summit, and stumble on a cool stone
Złotnicka Czuba hiding a few secrets. During the war, on its southern, steep, rocky slope, the plane crashed. Apparently people are after him already collected all the remains. see, ha ha ha ... :-)
In the years of communism Russians are doing here wells in search of uranium deposits. We are today the tip drill. I hope you found nothing, because it brought out here, and we probably did not shine at night.
Czuby At the top is flattening, surely done by human hands. It could be there some guard, since Kwisa, for centuries, the river was the border between Prussia and Saxony, also two land odzielała Silesia and Upper Lusatia. Today there is growing so thick forest, with the tip of the mountain that you can not see anything.
Dumam on top Czuby and something tells me that I stand on something important .
unnaturally flat tip Czuby
view of the tip from the south.
peasant thesis will be set soon szeszemu body in a specially prepared paper to that fact. If you do not meet up with some more likely the antithesis, we will fight to set the table at this point, informing tourists about the mining of gold at this point in the seventeenth century. If the array does not wywalczymy, we'll do it ourselves :-) the
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