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Sněžka or Śnieżka (in Czech and Polish, ''Schneekoppe'' in German) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the Krkonoše mountains. At , its summit is the highest point in the Czech Republic, in the Krkonoše and in the entire Sudetes range system. == History == The first historical account of an ascent to the peak is in 1456, by an unknown Venetian merchant searching for precious stones. The first settlements on the mountain soon appeared, being primarily mining communities, tapping into its deposits of copper, iron and arsenic. The mining shafts, totalling in length, remain to this day. The first recorded German name was ''Riseberg'' ("giant mountain", cf. ''Riesengebirge'', "Giant Mountains"), mentioned by Georg Agricola in 1546. Fifteen years later the name ''Riesenberg'' appears on Martin Hellwig's map of Silesia. The German name later changed to ''Riesenkoppe'' ("giant top") and finally to ''Schneekoppe'' ("snow top", "snowy head"〔the highest ridge in the 'Giant Mountains' rises to a height of 1,603.30 metres at the peak of 'Snowy Head', p.39 in Norman Davies, Roger Moorhouse: ''Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City'', Jonathan Cape, 2002 ISBN 978-0-224-06243-5, 585 pages ()〕). In Czech, the mountain was initially called ''Pahrbek Sněžný''. Later ''Sněžka'', with the eventual name ''Sněžovka'', meaning "snowy" or "snow-covered", which was adopted in 1823. An older Polish name for the mountain was ''Góra Olbrzymia'', meaning "giant mountain".〔(Geographische Namen in den Böhmischen Ländern ) – see entry ''Sněžka''〕 The first building on the mountaintop was the chapel of Saint Lawrence (''Laurentiuskapelle''), built ca. 1665–1681 by the Silesian Schaffgotsch family to mark their dominion, serving also as an inn for a brief period of time. The territory including the mines were the property of the Schaffgotsch family until 1945. The so-called ''Prussian hut'' was built on the Silesian (now Polish) side in 1850, followed by the ''Bohemian hut'' on the Bohemian (now Czech) side in 1868, both built with the purpose of providing lodging. The Prussian hut was rebuilt twice after fires (1857 and 1862), and the (after 1945) "Polish hut" was finally demolished in 1967. The Bohemian hut fell into disrepair after 1990 and was demolished in 2004. A wooden weather station was built on the mountaintop ca. 1900, being the only weather station in Central Europe remaining intact after World War II. It was demolished in the 1980s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sněžka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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