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The aim of this study is to point out the possibilities of using various historical sources - 1. toponomastic and cartographic, 2. tourist, 3. ethnographic and artistic - in the research of places of memory creation in topographical (concrete) meaning. It is a mountain of Heidelberg / Žalý in the Giant Mountains, which in the course of the 19th century changed from a topographical point to a local place of memory of the Czech ethnicity. Based on the analysis of the sources, the symbolic motives and narratives that were attributed to this place are analyzed.