Mighty fortress

Silver Mountain is best known for the mighty fortress Srebrnogórskiej located on the top of the hill. The fortress has been declared a monument of history and is one of 25 other historical monuments in Poland. To protect the original landscape has been mapped fortress Fortress Cultural Park, which covers all the main places of that Fortress, forts, bastions, shelters, redoubts, batteries, casemates. Bastion called Basztowy Donżonem is the highest point of the fortress. Fortress Cultural Park also protects residues sowiogórskiej queue gear includes closed already silver mines, tunnels, river valleys, and slopes of combat. Silver Mountain since the beginning of its existence was associated with the silver mines. For many centuries the existence of Silver Mountain was digested by numerous wars, sieges, and struggles for control of this valuable piece of Lower Silesia. The fortress was built between 1765-1777. At the end of the eighteenth century the local population remained largely manual srebnogórskiego garrison, after which the solution was its economic collapse. In the late nineteenth century in vain attempts to develop watch industry and textile. Before World War I Srebrnogórskie Society, which was designed to promote the landscape qualities of the town, since that time, Silver Mountain has gained the nickname “Pearl of the Owl Mountains”, which was uncommon to emphasize its tourist value. Nowadays, in turn initiated the development of flow of tourists to the Silver Mountain and the growing interest in its rich history, as well as the promotion of tourist.