슈타들렌 주변 최고의 그래블 라이딩 코스

Honest cuisine, breathtaking views, and plenty of peace and quiet.

Long climb 12%, but the pub makes up for it 👍

At least the chapel was rebuilt.

It's unbelievable what the border closure has destroyed in village life.

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 settlement of Rappauf once housed a glassworks, first documented in 1718. This workshop was called the Plesser Hütte (Plesser Glassworks), and it produced mirror and window glass, beads, and buttons. The glassworks was abandoned in 1747. Before World War II, Rappauf had 16 houses. After the war, the village, which was now located within the military exclusion zone, was destroyed. A few remnants of the walls can still be seen.

A cozy inn with a lovely beer garden and playground. It's very busy in the summer, as a major Czech cycling route runs nearby. The staff is friendly and the food is delicious.

The chapel was built in 2016 by Marek Hrusa, owner of the Pension Plöss, to commemorate the former residents and the village's recent history. It stands on the site of the neo-Gothic village church, consecrated in 1906. After the expulsion of the German population, the church was used as a stable before being eventually demolished. The chapel also stands as a symbol of the good relations between the people living on the border between Bavaria and Bohemia.