komotau, brüx, erzgebirge ~ chomutov, most, krusne hory ~ CZ

what a nice weekend in erzgebirge (ore mountains, krusne hory) in the czech republic: brüx (most), komotau (chomutov) ... i've visited good friends with whom i lived close together as a refugee 30 years ago in munich. well, they have moved to czech republic last year 😄

castle landeswarte (zamek hnevin) above the city of brüx (most)

i was happy to visit this interesting formerly german settled region in the erzgebirge mountains and to have local guides all over the area, which is unfortunately essentially affected by open pit brown coal mining. please enjoy few pictures and insights in the following blog post ....

in the nearby thermal baths area of karlsbad and marienbad is the nature still fine ... not so in the brown coal open pit mining area of  brüx (most) & komotau (chomutov)

a scene from the moon or just dust over the open pit coal mines?

 

view from my window in hohenofen (vysoka pec), CZ

erzgebirge (ore mountains, krusne hory)

castle eisenberg (zamek jezeri) is currently renovated, bur looks still like a ruin, doesn't it?

lunch in brüx (most) in a 'good soldier svejk (schweik)' restaurant,

called after the satirical anti-military roman by jaroslav hasek

black&white view at castle landeswarte (zamek hnevin) above the city of brüx (most)

observatory at the castle landeswarte (hnevin)

 

remaining of old brüx (most): the church that was moved 800m and rescued

ten or eleven years ago, after approximately 30 years of open pit mining, all the coal below old city of brüx (most) was mined. today there is an artificial lake and the nature seems to take the destroyed industrial site back under its control. if we only let everywhere the nature restore our sins 😇. on the left side are the chimneys of leutensdorf (litvinov), the chemical industry center

short visit to marienberg, erzgebirge (ore mountains), saxony, DE. marienberg is also a former mining area, but unlike komotau & brüx all the mining (of metals) in marienberg took place underground

back to komotau: castle rothenhaus (cerveny hradek) in borough görkau (jirkov) is a hotel today

 all of us

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city center of komotau (chomutov):

 coat of arms

 main old town square in komotau

 
 

train station komotau (chomutov)

good-bye, my loved center of komotau

my dears, there is at least one other really interesting thing in komotau. have you ever heard about an alum lake (alaunsee ~ kamencove jezero)? well, they have flooded the 18th century alum mine and there is a lake today => a lake where no plants and no animals live, but good for swimming 🏊

 
 

more pictures here.

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