Bučina is halfway between Kvilda and Finsterau on the Planie on the ridge of the Bohemian Forest. To the north rise the Stolová hora (Table Mountain, 1254 m) and the Vysoký stolec (1251 m), to the west the Siebensteinkopf (Sedmiskalí, 1263 m) and in the northwest the Černá hora (Schwarzberg, 1315 m) and the Stráž (Postberg, 1308 m) ). The Vltava rises two and a half kilometers to the northwest, and the Grenzbach to the west
After the Munich Agreement, Buchwald was added to the German Reich in 1938 as part of the Prachatitz district. In 1930 there were 347 people living in the community, in 1939 there were only 320, including 29 Czechs. [3] Buchwald consisted of 26 houses along the road that leads from Finsterau via Buchwald to Aussergefild. The districts Hüttl with 11 houses and Mühlreuterhäuser - called Froschau - with 10 houses also belonged to the community. After the end of World War II, Buchwald returned to Czechoslovakia and the German residents were expelled. The area along the border was declared a military exclusion zone and no longer populated, causing the houses in Bučina to fall into disrepair. After the Iron Curtain was erected during the Cold War, the village was demolished in 1956. A hotel that was used as a barracks and the chapel have been preserved.