[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/rip-mountain-wikipedia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/rip-mountain-wikipedia\/","headline":"\u0158\u00edp Mountain – Wikipedia","name":"\u0158\u00edp Mountain – Wikipedia","description":"before-content-x4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia after-content-x4 Large Hill in the Czech Republic central to Czech mythology \u0158\u00edp Mountain (also","datePublished":"2014-12-19","dateModified":"2014-12-19","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd810e53c1408c38cc766bc14e7ce26a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd810e53c1408c38cc766bc14e7ce26a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8a\/Loudspeaker.svg\/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8a\/Loudspeaker.svg\/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png","height":"11","width":"11"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/rip-mountain-wikipedia\/","wordCount":1485,"articleBody":"     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});before-content-x4From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Large Hill in the Czech Republic central to Czech mythology\u0158\u00edp Mountain (also known as \u0158\u00edp Hill; IPA:\u00a0[\u02c8\u0266ora \u02c8r\u031di\u02d0p] (listen); German: [Sankt] Georgsberg or Raudnitzer Berg) is a 461 metres (1,512\u00a0ft) high solitary hill located 20\u00a0km south-east of Litom\u011b\u0159ice, Czech Republic. According to national legend, it is the place where the first Czechs settled. The mountain and the rotunda on its top are among the Czech national cultural monuments.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4\u0158\u00edp, being visible from great distance, has always been an important orientation point in the Bohemian scenery and has attracted attention since the oldest times.Table of ContentsGeomorphology[edit]Geology[edit]Buildings[edit]Points of interest[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Geomorphology[edit]In terms of geomorphological division, \u0158\u00edp is located in a flatland of the Lower Eger Table within the Central Bohemian Table macroregion, and is the highest peak of this entire macroregion.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Geology[edit]  Geologically, \u0158\u00edp is the erosional remnant of a late Oligocene volcano and is composed of basalt nephelites containing olivine granules, amphibole, leucite and \u2013 among others \u2013 magnetite, so a local magnetic anomaly can even be observed there by the compass.The hill was bare until 1879 when Mo\u0159ic Lobkowitz had it planted with trees. Today, almost all of the mountain is covered by an oak-and-hornbeam forest with some maple, pine ash, and linden trees. Some rare thermophile plants can be found at the few tree-less places on the top of the hill, such as Gagea bohemica and Iris pumila.The name of the mountain is of pre-Slavic origin and probably comes from the Old-Germanic stem r\u00edp- (elevation, hill), which has the Latin parallel in the word r\u00edpa (shore, slope, hillside).[2][3] Some linguists also derive the origin of the name from the Illyrian-Thracian base.[4]  The rotunda of Saint George on top of the hillAccording to a traditional legend, first recorded by the ancient Czech chronicler Cosmas of Prague in the early 12th century, \u0158\u00edp was the place where the first Slavs, led by Forefather \u010cech, settled. According to the Chronicle of Dalimil from 1310, when \u010cech and his people climbed \u0158\u00edp Mountain, he looked upon the landscape and told his brothers that they have reached the promised land: “We have a country at our will, here will be our tables always full, enough of wild animals, birds, fish, bees and hardness against enemies.”[5]The land was named after the leader. In the 16th century, the legend was revived by V\u00e1clav H\u00e1jek of Libo\u010dany who claimed that \u010cech was buried in the nearby village of Ctin\u011bves and, later on, by Alois Jir\u00e1sek in his Old Bohemian Legends from 1894.Buildings[edit]On top of the hill there is a romanesque rotunda of Saint George, which is one of the oldest buildings in the Czech Republic. This is mentioned for the first time in 1126, when Sob\u011bslav I, Duke of Bohemia, commemorating his victory at the Battle of Chlumec, where he defeated Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III, had the rotunda repaired and extended by the western circular tower. The rotunda’s current appearance is the result of a purist reconstruction during the 1870s.Inside the rotunda is a stone sculpture by contemporary Czech artist Stanislav Hanz\u00edk “The Good Shepherd” from 1979, symbolising the arrival of Czech ancestors to the country and the beginning of Czech history there.Near the rotunda is a tourist hut that was built in 1907 and still serves travellers today. In accordance with the patriotic spirit of that era, a wooden plate is mounted on the hut wall that says, “What Mecca is to a Muslim, \u0158\u00edp is to a Czech” (Czech: “Co Mohamedu Mekka, to \u010cechu \u0158\u00edp”).Points of interest[edit]The top of \u0158\u00edp became a popular pilgrimage place and a frequent site of national manifestations and mass meetings. A famous manifestation was held there on 10 May 1868 when the foundation stone was taken from the hill for the newly built National Theatre in Prague. Tradition has it that each Czech should climb this mountain at least once in his life.[6]References[edit]External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/rip-mountain-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"\u0158\u00edp Mountain – Wikipedia"}}]}]