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Velký Roudný (Big Roudný) 780 m above sea and Malý Roudný (Small Roudný) 771 m above sea
Several extinct quaternary volcanoes are situated in the surroundings of the town Bruntál. Most of them belong to the group of mixed volcanoes, which means that the activity of the volcanoes was in turns explosive and extrusive. Lava was vomited during the explosions from the crater to longer distances and after petrifaction it fell down on the surface in the shape of incoherent volvano eruptive rock. On the contrary by the extrusion lava was running out from the crater and formed the lava streams. The volcano eruptive rocks form mostly the volcano maar.

Velký Roudný (Big Roudný) is the highest volcano of the Low Jeseníky Mountains. This volcano was last active 1 – 2 milion years ago.

Big a Small Roudný form two remarkable peaks above the village Roudno. From three lava streams of Big Roudný the northeaster one is the longest and the quarry for whinstone mining was made here. This lava stream dammed up the valley of the river Moravice in the place of todays‘s Slezska Harta, so a great lake was formed, to which the eruptive rocks were falling.

They created sediments of sponge puff-stones, which are today found in the surroundings of the villages Razová and Karlovec. These puff-stones were mined as a good building material.

The Bruntál volcanoes create a remarkable and striking feature of the Low Jeseniky Mountains countryside

Trip to Big Roudný
The easier way to Big Roudný is from the road going to Křištanovice. We will go along the guidepost from the upper crossing in Roudno. We are on the top in half an hour, where a big information board is placed and next to it there is a cone hollow, which is considered to be the rest of the crater. A rebuilt small chapel is placed on the top. Behind the chapel there are 15 pictures of the Stations of the Cross on the stands. If we go downhill, we come to two stony mounds with a cross – to the victims of the 1st Word War in 1914 – 1918. More ambitous tourists can go down from the mound maybe 30m downhill to a visible road which goes out from the forest and go on along a meadow path at first to the southern direction and then turn down the way to the road to Bílčice.

Trip on Small Roudný
We walk about 2km along the road from Roudno to Křištanovice and before the road starts to descend, we tern to a beaten meadow way. We turn right maybe after 300m to a noteless about 600m long path to the top. In fact it is a long mildly prone meadow with a brown red colour of the soil. You recognise that you are on the top according to a caravan that is placed in the bush and can serve as a shelter in the case of bad weather.