Stop One – At The Treasure House ENG

The landscape of the Novopacko region is very interesting from the perspective of geomorphology. Its unique atmosphere is created by landscape undulations and red soil. The story of formation of the local landscape, its structure, and the geological powers and periods of their influence that yielded this unique image can be found in the Nová Paka Treasure House. 

It displays numerous fossils, particularly from Upper Paleozoic (Carboniferous and Permian): especially the so-called silicified wood that used to be the flora of prehistoric tropical forests, and imprints of plants, fish, sharks, and trace fossils. 

Opposite the Treasure House, a display case next to Sucharda’s House features a petrified trunk of a tree that grew here 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous. With its length of 8.3 metres, it is one of the longest such woods found so far. It was discovered in 1953. 

The Treasure House also presents rocks originating in bigger and smaller volcanoes that are still visible in the landscape. 

The majority of local melaphyres contain famous local semi-precious stones – agates. You can admire their unique colour variation formed by the local landscape.

A remarkable feature is their specific texture, which is equally unique as the texture of local fossil finds. 

The Treasure House exhibits not only the hidden geometry of the local landscape, but also the unknown corners of human spirit – a collection of mediumistic drawings related to the phenomenon of spiritism in the Krkonoše Piedmont. The collection is unique not only in the Czech Republic but worldwide. In mediumistic art, the hand of the medium (a mediator between different worlds) is led in order to capture plants, animals and landscapes from beyond our world. 

Novopacko is an interesting area. Take a walk around the landscape and find out… 

Panel Klenotnice——achát (s4.png ) + medijní kresba (Hasman H15287 (2).JPG – Obrázek, 4 MB), psaronie (k12.png )

Popisky

Mediumistic drawing, Hugo Hasman, Kolafec of Sirius, 1939 (the “messages” were mediated by “mediumistically talented” – i. e. sensitive individuals)

Agate, site Doubravice (agates were mostly created as cavity fillings in volcanic rocks basalt and melaphyre)

Psaronius, site Balka (tree ferns growing in the humid tropical climate, prevalent plants in Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian marshes and bogs)