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Kamenice Gorge

Coordinates: 50°52′10″N 14°16′7″E / 50.86944°N 14.26861°E / 50.86944; 14.26861
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In the Edmund Gorge

The Kamenice Gorge (formerly known as Kamnitz Gorge; Czech: Soutěsky Kamenice, German: Kamnitzklamm) is a rocky ravine between Hřensko, Mezná and Srbská Kamenice in Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. The river Kamenice flows through it and discharges near Hřensko into the Elbe.

History

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The Kamenice Gorge was first travelled in 1877 by young men. Prince Edmund Clary-Aldringen had the way through the gorge widened by Italian construction workers in 1889 and in 1890 boats were used in the Edmund Gorge, also called the Silent Gorge (Czech: Edmundova soutěska or Tichá soutěska, German: Edmundsklamm or Stille Klamm). The Wild Gorge (Czech: Divoká soutěska, German: Wilde Klamm) followed in 1898. In 1881 there was a boat service to the mill of Gründmühle (now the Dolský Mill) in the adjoining Ferdinand Gorge (Ferdinandsklamm), which has been withdrawn in 1939.

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50°52′10″N 14°16′7″E / 50.86944°N 14.26861°E / 50.86944; 14.26861