Pramen Žába, Natural spring in Kamenický Šenov, Czech Republic
Pramen Žába is a natural spring in Kamenický Šenov located in northern Czech Republic where water flows from underground geological formations. The source provides fresh water that feeds into local waterways and sustains the surrounding landscape.
The spring was built and opened on 15 October 1931 by a vegetarian association and was originally named Rudolf Liebischquelle after the sculptor Rudolf Liebisch, who arranged it. After the Second World War the spring's setting was destroyed and dismantled, and further damage came in the late 1960s with the building of an allotment colony nearby. Local enthusiasts restored it after a public collection and donations, reopening it on 13 September 1997.
The spring's name comes from the stone frog head set into a wall of hexagonal basalt columns, carved by Petr Jelínek of nearby Prysk for the 1997 restoration. Below it, a larger-than-life stone male head called the "Guardian of the Spring" marks a second outlet added the same year.
The spring is reachable via marked trails from the town center with parking areas nearby for visitors. Good walking shoes are recommended since the paths pass through moist ground and can be damp year-round.
The upper outlet flows from the mouth of a stone frog set into a wall of hexagonal basalt columns; the lower outlet, added in 1997, runs from a pipe beneath an oversized stone male head called the "Guardian of the Spring". The frog head was carved by Petr Jelínek of nearby Prysk, and a copy by Václav Frömmel replaced it on 21 October 2007.
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