TEPLICENAD

BEČVOU

HRANICE

ČERNOTÍN

zbytky hradu Svrčov

Hranická propast

Hůrka370 m

socha sv. Jana Nepomuckého

PP Nad Kostelíčkem

PR Velká KobylankaPR Malá Kobylanka

PP V Oboře

NPR Hůrka u Hranic

NPP Zbrašovskéaragonitové jeskyně

Město Hranice www.hranicko.eu • +420 581 607 479 • www.mesto-hranice.czMěsto Hranice, 2010 • text: Barbora Šimečková, Jiří J. K. Nebeský

typo: www.tichy-typ.cz foto: Jiří Necid, Petr Vaverka, Petr Zajíček, Fraňo Sabbath Travěnec

NEPRODEJNÉ

Za Krásami Městské památkové zóny Hranice

www.mesto­hranice.cz

other protected areas of hranice karst• Velká Kobylanka nature reserve (4,26 ha)remains of an oak-hornbeam wood on the limestone subsoil• Malá Kobylanka nature reserve (0.86 ha)woody limestone hillock with rare flora• Nad Kostelíčkem natural monument (3.26 ha)island of a deciduous woodland with forest-steppe flora• V Oboře natural monument (2.68 ha)oak-hornbeam grove with significant flora

other natural places of interest open to the public• nature trail of the forestry technical school arboretum

eight stops in the Forestry Technical School arboretum• Československé Legie Gardensurban park which was established in 1906 according to the F. Thomayer‘s project• Valšovice Wood Nature Traila 3,4 km long trail with 12 stops in the area of Školní polesí Val-šovice SLŠ Hranice which includes also nature reserves of Buko-veček and Dvorčák and the Lipová Skalka natural phenomenon

Zbrašov Aragonite Caves – are part of the National Natural Monument proclaimed in 2003 on a territory of 7,74 ha. The unique cave system as well as the Hranice Gorge were created by hydrothermal karstic process, i.e. under the action of carbonated acidic springs. The unusual rock for­mations are formed by aragonite, raft stalagmites (formerly known as geyser stalagmites) and spherical sinter crusts re­sembling doughnuts. The lowest cave levels are permanent­ly filled with carbon dioxide. These caves, with a year­round permanent temperature of around 14 °C, are the warmest caves in the Czech Republic. They were discovered at the turn of 1912–1913 and made accessible for the public in 1926. Currently, the whole explored system extends to 1,240 m.

Hranice

Praha

Hranice

and Zbrašov Aragonite Cave

HRANICE – NATURAL MONUMENTS

Olomouc

Gorge

Hranice KarstAmong the towns of Hranice, Teplice nad Bečvou and Černotín there‘s a unique area formed by Paleozoic limestone called the Hranice Karst. The most significant localities are the Zbrašov Aragonite Caves and the Hranice Gorge. The uniqueness of the Hranice Karst consists in its geological development because the karst phenomena were created not only by normal rainfall water but also by seeps of warm carbonic acidulous spring wa­ter.Hůrka u Hranic National Nature Reserve (37,45 ha) – this is an area at the boundary between Devonian limestone and Culm slates with rare flora. The visitors can follow a nature trail with several stops in the reserve. A part of the reserve is also the Hranice Gorge which is protected within the Natura 2000 system.

• The Hranice Gorge was created by a collapse of the cave roof, which was eaten away by acidic spring water in lime­stone from below in the direction of the surface. The pond is filled with acidic water at a temperature of 16 °C.

• The Gorge creates favourable conditions for the Hart’s­tongue fern (Phyllitis scolopendrium), a critically endangered fern, and also for the only summer underground colony of the greater Mouse­eared bat (Myotis myotis) north of the Alps.

• The first book mentioning the Gorge is from 1580. For centuries it was called Godfather’s Hole (Gevatterloch) and it is connected with a whole series of legends.

• The Gorge is the oldest Czech karst formation which features in the map – J. A. Komenský marked it on the Map of Moravia in 1627.

• In 1813 wooden stairs leading from the top down to the Pond were constructed and the Gorge has gradually become a sought­after tourist attraction.

• In 1883 the Gorge made the pages of the European press as the scene of one of the crimes committed by Hugo Schenk, a serial killer.

• North of the Gorge there are ruins of Svrčov, a small castle recorded as abandoned already in 1548. Only insignificant relics of a dwelling house remained preserved up to the present time. The entrance to the castle was situated on the southeastern side.

• During archeological excavations also traces of Neolithic and Eneolithic settlements from approximately 5000–3000 B.C. were discovered.

• The hill above the Bečva river is dominated by a statue of St. John of Nepomuk commissioned in 1708 for the Hranice square.

The Hranice Gorge is the deepest gorge in the Czech Re­public even if its bottom hasn’t been reached yet. The first expert measurements were carried out in 1902 and the de­tected depth measured by means of a plump­bob was 36 m. From the second half of the 20th century the gorge has been examined by scuba divers. The deepest point ever reached by a man was 181 m (2000), only probes could get deeper: 220 m (2006) and 260 m (1980 – although this was uncerti­fied).

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