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Bavaria
Upper Palatinate
Cham
Waldmünchen

Former Grafenried Cemetery – Ruins of the Old School loop from Höll

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Germany
Bavaria
Upper Palatinate
Cham
Waldmünchen

Former Grafenried Cemetery – Ruins of the Old School loop from Höll

Moderate

4.6

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114

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Former Grafenried Cemetery – Ruins of the Old School loop from Höll

02:35

9.17km

200m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 23, 2026

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Naturpark Oberer Bayerischer Wald

CHKO Český les

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4.02 km

Ruins of Seeg (Pila) Village

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The also disappeared village of Seeg (Czech: Pila), which belonged to Grafenried, was located three kilometers west of Wassersuppen (Nemanice) on the road from Mauthaus to Grafenried. The first mentions …

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5.54 km

Former Grafenried Cemetery

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A place of memories of the past. Cold war, then many places on the Czech border were simply razed to the ground.

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5.70 km

The atrocities of the past are forgiven. Today, Czechs and Germans, as depicted on the poster at the "Place of Reconciliation", shake hands over the ruins of the lost villages. …

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5.72 km

The former Grafenried (Czech: Lučina) stood on a small hill near the German border (today the Untergrafenried border crossing) west of Nemanice. Grafenried also included the villages of Anger (Upor), …

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5.86 km

Ruins of the Old School

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From 1874, several rooms of the former castle (presumably built around 1580 by Georg Pelkhofer von Mosweng) were used as a three-class elementary school by Grafenried. These are the remains …

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5.93 km

Ruins of the Former Village Inn

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The stately property was once part of the castle's economy as a manor inn. Later, it also served as accommodation for the workers of the nearby brewery. In 1946, Josef …

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A sign with the warning "Please do not leave the signposted paths!" marks the entrance to the sunken village of Grafenried (Lučina). Only a few ruins have survived. Archaeological excavations still take place occasionally.

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6.68 km

From the Untergrafenried border crossing, historic paths lead directly into the former, abandoned Czech village of Grafenried (Lučina). These are cross-border tours with the character of witnessing history.

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9.17 km

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6.23 km

1.80 km

1.10 km

Surfaces

4.80 km

1.80 km

1.68 km

849 m

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Friday 31 July

26°C

17°C

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April 30, 2023,Zum verschwundenen Dorf Grafenried/Lucina
Along the border strip, the path leads to Grafenried/Lucina on the Czech side of the border. Here remains of the buildings as well as tools and everyday objects of the former villagers can be examined. In addition, numerous information boards with pictures provide an insight into village life in the glass-making town, which fell victim to the Iron Curtain after …

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Today we went on a short tour to our neighbors.
From Untergranfenried we went past the vanished villages of Grafenried and Seeg into the Schwarzach valley near Nemanice.
The Schwarzach has its source a few kilometers further north at the Lysa Hora (German: Lissaberg), over which the main European watershed also runs. The Rabuza rises just a short distance from …

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A wonderful, relaxed morning tour over the Grenzsteig Höll to the Dirrmal, so the mountain bike ban until September is more bearable😏. Nice weather and absolute peace, the mushrooms are now running across your path too 😋

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Countess Anna Katharina von Müller certainly did not dream that these linden trees would one day be almost the only remnants of the village of Grafenried when she had the group of six winter linden trees planted in the village square on April 2, 1765, for the feast of St. Francis of Paola.

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