20의 슈타들렌가지 명소 & 주요 장소

Reichenstein Castle can be considered an early settlement center in the Schönsee area. It was probably built in the late 11th century. Apart from a few remnants of the walls, only the stump of the round keep remains. However, the Reichenstein ruins are still shrouded in mystery. Legends tell of white women haunting the castle, and a treasure of gold lies beneath the ruins.

A wonderful view of the Upper Palatinate, Bohemian, and Bavarian Forests can be enjoyed from the glass-enclosed viewing platform. Visitors are at an altitude of 898 meters, the highest point in the Schwandorf district. The tower is 30 meters high.

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.

The tower is finished and no longer scaffolded. But honestly... you can see more and get nicer pictures from below! The tower has no entrance and cannot be visited from the inside. You can save yourself the altitude 😉

It's a bit of a shame that the top of the tower is closed with sealed glass panes. Accordingly, it is quite stuffy and hot on hot days. After all the stairs, a little air would be nice 😬🥵. But you survive it that way 😉

Unfortunately (for us bikers) the section in the forest up to the bridge has been upgraded to a "motorway".

Beautiful view from the Bohemian Forest Tower with free telescope

Always beautiful no matter what time of year