Sněžka-Śnieżka - History

Initially called Pahrbek Sněžný in Czech, it was renamed Sněžovka, with the eventual name Sněžka, meaning "snowy" or "snow covered" adopted in 1823. The first historical account of an ascent to the peak is in 1456, by an unknown Venetian merchant searching for precious stones. The first settlements on the mountain soon appeared, being primarily mining communities, tapping into its deposits of copper, iron and arsenic. The mining shafts, totalling 1 ...

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Sněžka-Śnieżka, Sněžka-Śnieżka - History, Sněžka-Śnieżka - The mountaintop today

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