ノイキルヒ/ラウジッツの山小屋＆キャビン・トップ20

Great hut to rest in. Beautifully located on the bike path. 🥰

The Butterberg is almost 384 meters high and is located just a few kilometers from the center of Bischofswerda. At the summit there is an inn in historic walls with a 21 meter high observation tower. You can find more information and opening times here: http://www.butterberg.com/.

As a child, I first went to Picho with my parents in 1968. It was a two-week holiday, right during the Prague Spring, but we couldn't take our planned day trip to Czechoslovakia because the borders were closed, and countless tanks and East German soldiers blocked the way. From 1970 to 1974, I spent three weeks each year at the children's holiday camp on Picho. It was a truly wonderful time. Night hikes, scavenger hunts, and day trips to the surrounding area, including into Czechoslovakia. My parents paid a mere 15 East German marks for it. For many years now, I've been going to Upper Lusatia regularly. Every time, I hike or drive up to the Großer Picho, and we always visit the restaurant in the mountain lodge. We always find it familiar, cozy, and reasonably priced, with good home-style cooking. In these hectic, fast-paced times, it's like a rock in the surf of the restaurant scene. Wishing the innkeepers continued success, many guests, plenty of money to cover their energy bills, and robust health. Lunzenau, March 26, 2023

The history of today's "Picho-Baude" begins in 1927, when Bernhard Eiselt from Tautewalde built the present-day Pichobaude on the summit. After its construction, Bernhard Eiselt purchased the land from the estate owner Hanewald. Since then, the mountain inn has enjoyed great popularity. The inn was expanded in 1929 with an addition: a brick kitchen, a veranda, and a second dining room. After Bernhard Eiselt's death in March 1938, Carl Radon and his wife Emma took over the inn. The Pichobaude mountain inn then took on its current form. Carl Radon ran the inn until 1945. After several proprietors until 1964, Otfried Grundmann took over as proprietor of the Pichobaude in 1965. He remained behind the bar until his death in 2003. Today, the Pichobaude is run by the second generation, his daughter Annette Grundmann.

Cozy restaurant on the Picho. Delicious game dishes.

According to tradition, the name of the mountain came about during the Thirty Years' War. At that time, the farmers of the area drove their cattle up this mountain to find protection and refuge. On the other hand, Theodor Schütze says: "The name can hardly have anything to do with calves that were supposedly hidden in the mountain forest during the Thirty Years' War." Kelerstein is listed on Scultetus' map from 1593. In a loan letter from 1669, it is referred to as a "Hichtwald". Source: Wikipedia

Nice restaurant with playground and hiking opportunities

Great rest hut in the typical construction of the Upper Lusatian timber frame houses.