The Krucze Mountains (, German: ''Rabengebirge'' ) are the Eastern part of the Stone Mountains, which belong to the Central

Sudetes The Sudetes ( ), also known as the Sudeten Mountains or Sudetic Mountains, is a geomorphological subprovince of the Bohemian Massif province in Central Europe, shared by the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. They consist mainly of mountain rang ...

on the border of the

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and Poland. To the West and North-Western part the mountain range borders the Lubawska Plateau and the

Karkonosze The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše, or Karkonosze (Czech: , , ), are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif). The Czech–Polish bord ...

Mountains, to the North-Eastern part they border the mountain range Czarny Las, from the East they border the sediment basin Kotlina Krzeszowska and the Zawory mountain range and to the South the mountain range borders the

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part of the Stołowe Mountains. To the Southern ridge of mountain range is the Polish-

border. The border crossing for cars is in

Lubawka Lubawka () is a town in Poland, in Lower Silesia Voivodship, in Kamienna Góra County. It is the administrative seat of Gmina Lubawka. It lies in the Sudetes near to the border with the Czech Republic on the way across the Lubawka pass (516m) bet ...

and for tourists is in Okrzeszyn.

Specification

The mountain range stretches North to South, which is irregular for the

Mountains, this is due to their geological build. To the very North of the mountain range is Kościelna with a height of 513 metres, which is on the outskirts of the settlement of

Kamienna Góra Kamienna Góra (, ) is a town in south-western Poland with 18,235 inhabitants (2023). It is the seat of Kamienna Góra County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Kamienna Góra, although it is not part of the territory of the latter (t ...

. The most important highest peaks in the Northern part of the mountain range are: Długosz at 612 metres, Anielska Góra at 651 metres, Czarnogóra at 621 metres, Kierz at 662 metres, Skowroniec at 581 metres, Pustelnia at 683 metres, Święta Góra at 701 metres, Krucza Skała at 681 metres, Polska Góra at 792 metres, Szeroka at 844 metres, Głazica at 798 metres, Wiązowa at 800 metres, Jaworowa at 786 metres, Owcza Głowa at 753 metres, Końska at 813 metres, Kobyla Góra at 758 metres, Bogoria at 645 metres, Jański Wierch at 697 metres. On the

side of the mountain range, from the West of the border ridge is Královecký Špičák, the highest peak of the Krucze Mountains and Mravenčí vrch at 836 metres. The Jańskiego Wierchu Massif is separated from the Krucze Mountains by the Szkła Valley, and according to

geographers the Jestřebí hory mountain range.

Settlements

:On the Polish side of the mountain range

Błażejów Błażejów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubawka, within Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Lubawka, south of Kamienna Góra, and south-wes ...

, Błażkowa, Janiszów,

, Lipienica,

, Okrzeszyn, Przedwojów and Uniemyśl. :On the Czech side of the mountain range Bečkov, Bernartice, Královec.

References

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