Boží hora, Summit of the Žulovská pahorkatina in the Olomouc region, Czech Republic
Gotthausberg, called Boží hora in Czech, is the highest summit of the Žulovská pahorkatina at 527 m, about 1 km east of Žulová. A neo-Gothic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, built from granite blocks quarried on the slope below, stands on a small clearing at the top.
A wooden chapel from 1712–1713 stood on the summit until 1784, when Emperor Joseph II abolished the pilgrimage site. In 1877 locals built a new Stations of the Cross from Žulová, and in 1878–1880 the chapel was replaced by the neo-Gothic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, built from granite blocks quarried on the slope below.
The mountain was long a pilgrimage destination visited by the bishops of Wrocław; Emperor Joseph II abolished the pilgrimage site in 1784. A Stations of the Cross leads up from Žulová, built by local residents in 1877 along the route of the old pilgrim path.
A blue-marked trail follows the old pilgrimage route from Žulová to the summit and continues beyond it. The route passes an abandoned quarry on the southeastern slope, where the upper edge gives a view of the Rychlebské hory and a part of Hrubý Jeseník.
The neo-Gothic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows on the summit was built in 1878–1880 from granite blocks quarried from the now-disused quarry on the slope below. A blue-marked trail follows the old pilgrimage route from Žulová, and from the quarry's upper edge the Rychlebské hory and a part of Hrubý Jeseník come into view.
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