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Beautiful mountain, a bit forgotten, wonderful views. ¦nie¿nik (1425 n.p.m m.), called also ¦nie¿nikiem K³odzko, nonm. Glatzer Schneeberg (name used in Germany) or Spieglitzer Schneeberg and Grulicher Schneeberg (names used in Austria), cz. Králický Snì¾ník highest, border peak on the Polish page in the Eastern Sudeten mountains and in the Massif ¦nie¿nika. A border pillar is on a peak about number 69 / 10. The ¦nie¿nik is the highest peak of the Massif ¦nie¿nika and 17. as for the height in the entire Sudeten mountains. He is an only mountain in the massif ¦nie¿nika who is standing for hours over upper the tree line. The ¦nie¿nik is a keystone of seven backs:
of north back around ¯mijowcem, Rudk±, with lydia broom and Krzy¿nikiem,
of north-western back around ¯mijowcem, with the Black Mountain and Krowiarkami,
of south-west border back, with Short ¦nie¿nikiem and with Trójmorski with Peak,
of eastern border back descending to the Pass P³oszczyna,
of the noon Su¹iny back and Podbìlki, put in one piece in the Czech Republic,
of west shoulder of the average person (1210 n.p.m m.),
of north-east shoulder of the Steep mountain (1166 n.p.m m.) and Mill (991 n.p.m m.). The eastern part of the mountain is built from local varieties of gneisses, called ¶nie¿nickimi and giera³towskimi. Metamorphic slates are creating the west ³yszczykowe. They here are also appearing soczewy of marble, as well as the filler of slates ³yszczykowych with pomegranates, of quartz slates, of graphite slates, amfibolitów, of serpentines and eklogitów.
On slopes ¦nie¿nika rock debris are appearing, incurred during the Pleistocene in the periglacial climate. A nival niche originates from the same period in the south hillside. In this hollow, c 200 m from the peak, the Morava is holding the beginning, one of bigger rivers of the Czech Republic.
The ¦nie¿nik lies on the European watershed of seas Black and Baltic. The course of the department agrees within the peak with the boundary regime national streams of the Polish side are flowing to the Baltic.
Plant and animal world the ¦nie¿nika is richest in the entire Sudeten mountains, since are running across borders of reaches of appearing of many kinds there Sudeten, Carpathian, alpine, not to say Mediterranean.
Clearly a multi-storey layout of the flora is emphasized:
up to 500 n.p.m m. farmlands, usually meadows; are appearing m.in. European pe³nik, stalk-less carline thistle,
500 1000 n.p.m m. bottom wooded sections of the Tatra mountains in the form of spruce forests or spruce-beech mixed forests,
1000 1250 n.p.m m. upper wooded sections of the Tatra mountains spruce forest, bilberries and a cowberry are found in fleece,
above 1250 n.p.m m. mountain meadows.
The ones last have the greatest natural value. Here in large numbers species of rare and protected plants and an artificially implemented dwarf mountain pine are appearing.
Animal world is also abounding in valuable kinds: moufflons, black grouse, capercaillies. An European fire salamander and a triton are appearing among amphibians, amongst reptiles the grass snake and the adder. Here also endemic species of beetles are current, b³onkówek, of flies and arachnids.
For the revived conservation of nature they created on ¦nie¿niku already in 1938 r. nature reserve, reconstructed under Polish governments in 1965 as dense. It includes the top part above the height of 1150 n.p.m m., his area is 192 ha.
The ¦nie¿nik had to be familiar to tourists already at the end the XVIII age the first strengthened information originates from this period (panoramas and written notes). The real bloom of the tourism started with the year with 1838, when it is a ¦nie¿nik and his surroundings became the property of the princess of Marianna Orañska. The peak became the fashionable aim of walks among others on it easts and sunsets were being admired.
T³umaczenie wykonano przy pomocy systemu translacyjnego firmy POLENG.
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