The Kunisch Mountains (; – meaning "Royal Forest") is a range that includes part of the

Bavarian Forest image:Zell-bayerischer-wald.jpg, The village of Zell in the Bavarian Forest The Bavarian Forest ( or ''Bayerwald'' ; ) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany, that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech Republic, C ...

and the central

Bohemian Forest The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as () and in German as , is a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from Plzeň Region and the South Bohemian Region in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria in Germ ...

, with its main chain between the

Osser The Osser () is a mountain on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic, in the Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest and which belongs to the Kunisch Mountains. Location and description A distinction is made between the ''Großer Osser' ...

and the Zwercheck close to Upper Palatinate. From a geological perspective the Kunisch Mountains occupy a special position, because they are made of mica schist instead of the

gneiss Gneiss (pronounced ) is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. This rock is formed under p ...

es and

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

s that are common elsewhere in the Bavarian Forest. It has good farming soils and heavy precipitation which often falls as snow and ice in winter.

Literature

* ''Im Landes der künischen Freibauern. Heimatbuch für den mittleren Böhmerwald.'' (Landkreis Bergreichenstein und angrenzende Gebiete); Herausgeber: Volkskundlicher Arbeitskreis für den mittleren Böhmerwald "Künische Freibauern" e.V., Verlag Morsak, Grafenau (Niederbayern) 1979, , pp. 5–839. * Johanna von Herzogenberg: ''Zwischen Donau und Moldau. Bayerischer Wald und Böhmerwald - Das Mühlviertel und Südböhmen.'' Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1968, pp. 5–350. (with an overview map) * ''Südböhmen.'' In: Lillian Schacherl: ''Böhmen - Kulturbild einer Landschaft.'' Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1966, pp. 139–212.

External links

Aktionsbündnis - Künisches Gebirge

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