Giant Mountains - Sklenařice

When settlement here socialized spontaneous migration population movement is deliberate colonization. This colonization led to the border also foreigners, mainly Germans, and with them later national problems. In the local part of the foothills but dominated almost entirely by the Czech element. Perhaps it is my proof enough ...
They were first pierced podhorským Hvozdy first journey. In this region led one of them from the village Jizery privlaka up into the mountains towards Příchovicům today, the second from Bozkova to Jizera where today Jablonec nad Jizerou. Both intersect on a large hill, which formed the dominant feature of the region and where, in the first half of the 14th century the city at this junction of High Jizerou.
Those who progressed from there on towards the north, came along on the hillside of a mountain ridge overlooking the wide and deep valley, which was protected by the surrounding hills before the mountain gales and open a narrow cleft to the east of the river Jizera. It was not possible to find a convenient place to set up the village. There was not only a convenient location. From the hills above the valley could be seen on all sides of a long, bluish backdrop of mountains that framed this basin as a massive, imposing mountain landscape painting, which bind to each other at first sight and hearts. It really is not too much, this is true today.

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