Near Jedlová lies Balda, a well-known local pilgrimage site with a miraculous spring and chapel. Numerous pilgrimages from the surrounding region once came here. Around 1650 a settler from Jedlová supposedly found a golden rose in the forest where the spring now rises. Later he dug there and found gold. The Golden Spring is said to have burst forth during the mining.
Location and map
- Place
- Jedlová
- Municipality / starting point
- Jedlová
- District / region
- Svitavy
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 7 km SE of Poličky
Near Jedlová lies Balda, a well-known local pilgrimage site with a miraculous spring and chapel. Numerous pilgrimages from the surrounding region once came here. Around 1650 a settler from Jedlová supposedly found a golden rose in the forest where the spring now rises. Later he dug there and found gold. The Golden Spring is said to have burst forth during the mining.
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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 145
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.