A secret passage supposedly led from the Church of St James the Greater beneath the Žernovník stream to the present bridge over the Jizera, into the cellar of a newly built house where another passage also ended. Sections were indeed found in the cellar in the predicted directions, but they were walled up.
Location and map
- Place
- Železný Brod
- Municipality / starting point
- Železný Brod
- District / region
- Jablonec nad Nisou
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 12 km NE of Turnova
A secret passage supposedly led from the Church of St James the Greater beneath the Žernovník stream to the present bridge over the Jizera, into the cellar of a newly built house where another passage also ended. Sections were indeed found in the cellar in the predicted directions, but they were walled up.
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Approximate location · municipality or area search. The distance comes from the sources, not a currently calculated route.
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 389
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.