The Wałbrzyskie Mountains or Waldenburg Mountains ( pl, Góry Wałbrzyskie; german: Waldenburger Bergland), sometimes called the Wałbrzyskie Highlands or Waldenburg Highlands, is one of the three mountain ranges that form the western part of the
Central Sudetes. The other ranges are the
Owl Mountains
The Owl Mountains ( pl, Góry Sowie, cs, Soví hory, german: Eulengebirge) are a mountain range of the Central Sudetes in southwestern Poland. It includes a protected area called Owl Mountains Landscape Park.
Geography
The Owl Mountains cover ...
and the
Falcon Mountains.
Geography
The Wałbrzyskie Mountains lie almost entirely within
Poland
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. Several southern ridges reach as far as the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
. The range extends to the west and southwest of the
Lower Silesia
Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...
n town of
Wałbrzych
Wałbrzych (; german: Waldenburg; szl, Wałbrzich; sli, label= Lower Silesian, Walmbrig or ''Walmbrich''; cs, Valbřich or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland. From 1975–1998 it was the capital of Wa ...
''(Waldenburg)''. The Owl and Falcon Mountains to the southeast form a continuation of the Wałbrzyskie Highlands. To the west of the highlands in the
Western Sudetes
The Western Sudetes ( pl, Sudety Zachodnie; cs, Krkonošská oblast; german: Westsudeten) are a geomorphological macroregion, the western part of the Sudetes subprovince on the borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. They are formed mo ...
are the adjoining ranges of the
Bober-Katzbach Mountains and the
Landeshut Ridge.
Division of the Wałbrzych Mountains
The Wałbrzych Mountains are divided into three separate parts:
* Trójgarb and Krąglak
Massif
In geology, a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. The term also refers to a ...
* Chełmiec Massif
* Black Mountains
File:Sattelwald-Trojgarb.jpg, Trójgarb
File:Chelmiec (Hochwald) mountain winter.jpg, Chełmiec
File:Borowa zima.jpg, Borowa
References
External links
Góry Kamienne Information, description and photographs (Polish)
Góry Wałbrzyskie Information, description and photographs (Polish)
Sudetes
Mountain ranges of Poland
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