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 descripted by Ptolemy as Asciburgius in Magna Germania.
The top of the mountain has a PTTK tourist hostel and a tv-radio mast.
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[edit] Sacred mountain
At least as far back as the 7th century BC and the Neolithic Age Zobten Mount Ślęża was a holy place of the Heathen tribes of Lusatian culture. It was then settled by the Celtic-Germanic Lugians (part of the Silingi, of the Przeworsk culture, to which the early Slavic were added. Ślężanie tribe also dwelled in that area. When Silesia became a part of Greater Moravia, then Bohemia (part of Holy Roman Empire, and the Silesians were named after the Silingi. Duke Boleslaw I of Poland, fiefholder of the empire, conquered Silesia in 990, but lost it again to Bohemia, also a part of the Holy Roman Empire. Silesia, the Latin version, was in earlier sources written as Slesia, from which developed High German Schlesien. Christianity came first via Ciril 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 sun god holy places and remained a holy place during Christian times as well. In the first half of the 12th century, the owner of the place was Danish 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. Silesia, named for the Silingi,is perhaps derived from a Silesian word meaning "wet swampy place".
Despite recurring conquests by Slavs indigenous Germanic people managed to remain in Silesia throughout the many centuries.
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 extoled in famed, however untypical manner by artist 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 actual tower, which was built in 1972, replaced a 98 metre tall tower built in 1958.
[edit] Abgestrahlte Programme
[edit] Fernsehen
| Programm | Frequenz | Kanalnummer | Sendeleistung |
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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
| Programm | Frequenz | Sendeleistung |
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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 |
