Polská hora, Mountain summit in the Bialskie Mountains, Lower Silesia, Poland
Rudawiec, known in Czech as Polská hora and in German as Rothe Sümpfe, is a forested summit of 1,106 m on the Polish-Czech border, the highest point of the Bialskie Mountains and the northernmost point of Moravia. It is the junction of three ridges: Rudy Krzyże, Iwinka and Biała Kopa. Its slopes are built of metamorphic schist and gierałtów gneiss, with lower montane forest below and sparse upper montane spruce on top.
The summit lies on the Polish-Czech border and is the northernmost point of Moravia. Its names include the Czech Polská hora, the German Rothe Sümpfe and the Polish Rudawiec, also recorded as Bieleń, Ruda Paprotnia and Rude Bagna. It is listed in the Korona Gór Polski as the representative of the small Bialskie Mountains.
The peak is the northernmost point of Moravia, on the Czech-Polish border. Its Czech name, Polská hora, and older names Červené Bahno and Rote Sümpfe refer to the mountain's location and its red boggy ground. It is one of the summits of the Korona Gór Polski.
No Czech marked trail reaches the summit; the Polish green trail comes from Králický Sněžník and Kladské sedlo, about 6.5 km to the top. A border footpath joins about 600 m north-northeast of the Palaš junction near the Paprsek hut, then roughly 4 km along it. The summit is forested and offers no view; the western slope opens views toward the Králický Sněžník ridge.
The summit marks the northernmost point of Moravia, on the Czech-Polish border. Because no marked trail crosses the higher neighbouring peaks Travna hora and Postawna, Rudawiec was chosen as the representative of the small Bialskie Mountains in the Crown of Polish Mountains list.
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