Ještěd in Literature and Landscape
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Karolina Světlá píše své sestře o prvním výstupu na Ještěd v r. 1855
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Ještěd in Literature and Landscape
The top of Mt. Ještěd has dramatically changed over time. In 1838 the Rohan Stone was placed there, marking the border between the Rohan and Clam-Gallas estates. In 1868 the Rohan Chalet was built. In 1905-1906 the German Alpine Society for the Ještěd and Jizera Mountains [Deutscher Gebirgsverein für Jeschken- und Isergebirge] built an alpine hotel with observation tower. The hotel burned to the ground in 1963, the chalet a year later. Today’s Ještěd tower with a hotel and a restaurant was opened in 1973. It was designed by Karel Hubáček, who was awarded the prestigious Perret Prize by the International Union of Architects. In the year 2000, Ještěd was proclaimed the Czech Building of the Century. In the works of Karolina Světlá you often find images, myths and laymen’s meteorological observations relating to Ještěd. It was as if it had a sea inside… smoke began to somehow filter down from the mountain, soon one could not see the mountain for the clouds, it didn’t even last one hour, how it began to drizzle from the mountain and then pour down in buckets. Not far from here you can see a larch tree which is connected to a short story The Larch of Maria Theresa [Modřín Marie Terezie, 1880]. In this story, Světlá depicted the hopes which the Czech nation placed on Empress Maria Theresa.
Vítězslav Hálek (*1835 †1874)
Šťastný Ještěd, že našel svou Světlou, a šťastná Světlá, že našla svůj Ještěd.
Sofie Podlipská (*1833 †1897)
Nejvíce dojata jsem tím, čím Tobě byl a je ten drahý svatý Ještěd… Věřím, pevně, že teprv se ukáže časem v plné míře, co zmohly Tvoje spisy.