Abandoned village of Bügellohe

The Wüstungügellohe is an abandoned settlement in the German-Czech border area near Stadlern, Sudeten Germans had built the settlement close to the border after the expulsion in 1946. However, in the cold seasons on the border ridge it was too inhospitable and agricultural yields could hardly be achieved at these altitudes, so the people gradually abandonedügellohe: in 1950 59 people lived there, in 1960 only 8, and in 1970 the last resident left the settlement .

The abandoned village of Bügellohe lies directly on the Czech border. It can only be reached on foot, via a hiking trail of about three kilometers. At an altitude of 852 meters, ruins of houses stand in a clearing and in the forest. What today attracts curious visitors as a "lost place" was once a settlement where up to 75 people lived after the Second World War: Sudeten Germans from Wenzelsdorf, just one kilometer away. They had retreated to the Bavarian mountain saddle in the winter of 1945/46 to avoid expulsion from Czechoslovakia. They owned land on the saddle, a piece of land that juts out into Bohemia like a bow. They wanted to wait there until they could return home.
Over time, the makeshift emergency shelters in the abandoned village of Bügellohe became permanent houses. A settlement was built from materials that had to be laboriously carried through the forest from the village of Stadlern, four kilometers away, to Bügellohe.
The hopes of the Bügelloh residents of returning to their old homeland were dashed. In 1950, the Prague government began razing Wenzelsdorf to the ground. Across the border, many Bügelloh residents gave up; life in isolation, without electricity or running water, was too hard. They moved away. Eventually, only one remained: Josef Licha. He, too, left Bügellohe in the fall of 1967.

Very interesting, well explained and in the middle of nature 👍