Surroundings, Tourism

Surroundings

The original architecture of Šumava cottages, memorable trees, pitch furnace.
One of the oldest churches in Sumava on the hill above Otava near Annín. Rare wall paintings from the 14th century. Baroque ossuary.
The village of Dobrá Voda, which means in English “Good Water” is situated less than 3km from Hartmanice.
A place of pilgrimage with a well of supposedly healing water. Birthplace of Dr. Šimon Adler, museum. Church of St. Vintières.
Defunct village near Prášil. Currently, only a monument to the victims of the 1st St. war. Beautiful views of the Křemelná river valley.
In history, the seat of the important royal estate of Kochánov, a defunct village. Pilgrimage Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes.
A cultural monument documenting the way of life in the remote Šumava borderlands. 5 km northeast of Hartmanice.
A small settlement near Hartmanice. In 1494, one of the first glass smelters in Šumava caught fire near Mochov. A row of memorial deciduous larch trees.
The Šumava Museum branch was built as a memorial to a Jewish historian and rabbi. The emphasis is on commemorating the life of the Jewish minority in the West Bohemian borderlands.
A water mill from the first half of the 18th century. Pekelské údolí 5 km from Hartmanice. An unforgettable backdrop from movies and fairy tales.
The chapel surrounded by a low wall on the road from Palvínov to Mouřenec is a memory of the Thirty Years' War.
The settlement 3 km from Hartmanice, formerly a resort village, is now gradually coming to life. The rebuilt chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, memorial trees.
The rebuilt pilgrimage chapel on the site of the hermitage of St. Vintières. A rock on top of Mount Březník. A place where ancient history was written.
The defunct village, the chapel of the Holy Trinity, the Cross of Reconciliation, memorial trees, a memorial to the American soldiers who died fighting for the village at the very end of the war.
The Church of St. Mauricius near Annín, on the Mouřenec Hill, is 617m above sea level.
The Březník, at 1165m above sea level, is a hill over the Lusen Valley, 8km from the village of Modrava.
A beautiful view of the Bohemian inland can be seen from the top of a woody hill, 902m above sea level.
“Čeňkova Pila”, which means in English Čeněk’s Saw Mill, was built by a Prague tradesman, Čeňek Bubeníček.
The Farmers’ Trail goes mostly through the area of the Kochánov National Park.
A long time ago five glacier lakes developed on the Czech side of the mountains, and another three lakes on the Bavarian side.
Charles IV had the Kašperk Castle built in 1356 to protect the gold mines in the area, the trade on the Golden Path and the border area.
The moorlands are one of the features of nature in the Šumava Mountains. Only three of them are open to visitors.
Situated 7km to the south of Prášily is the Polední Mountain, which means in English the Noon Mountain, at the top of which is the Poledník Observation Tower.
The Castle of Rabí is a dominant feature of the upper Otava region and is one of the biggest and largest medieval castles in Bohemia.
The castle was built at the beginning of 14th century and is situated over the village of Velhartice.
The National Nature Reserve of the same name (Bílá strž) was declared in 1972 and extends at the area of 79,2 hectares at the altitude 735-1086 m.

Tips for hiking

23.5 km. A wonderful path through the territory of the Kochánov Nature Park offers breathtaking views, buildings of folk architecture, pastures.