Plechý - Šumava (Bohemian Forest / Böhmerwald) Mts. (Czech Republic)
N 48° 46.270 E 013° 51.437
33U E 416037 N 5402647
Plechý mountain (1 378 m) is the highest mountain of the Czech part of the Šumava mountains (Bohemian Forest). It lies 14 km west of the village Horní Planá and about 8 km south-west of the small village Nová Pec on the Czech-Austrian border.
Waymark Code: WM6FQ6
Location: Jihočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/27/2009
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Except a beautiful vistas to Austria and Germany (in good visibility you can see Alpes Mts. in 150 km distance) a lot of places of interest you can find on slopes and peak of Plechý Mt. One of them is the morainic Plešné Jezero (Plešné Lake). Above the lake, on a 211 m high rock face with a nice view of the lake, there is a 14.5 m high monument to the German writer Adalbert Stifter.
The rock face is a valuable geomorphological formation and is a part of the nature reserve Trojmezná Hora ("Three Landmarks Mountain"). The sea of stones with huge granite boulders lies near the moraine.
The trail of the Schwarzenberský Kanál (Schwarzenbergs' Canal) runs on the northern slope of the mountain. Interesting portals of the underground tunnel can be seen at the foot near the small village Jelení.
The red marked sierra trail leads from the small village Nové Údolí over the tops of Trístolicník mountain ("Three Stools Mount") and Trojmezná mountain ("Mount of Three Landmarks"). The trail is about 15 km long and takes about 5 hours. The yellow marked path leads from the peak of Plechý downhill to Plešné Jezero lake. Then the green marked path continues to Jelení. The green sign, which also runs from the lake, joins the blue one, which heads to Nová Pec.
Šumava (Bohemian Forest) is a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from South Bohemia in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria in Germany. They create a natural border between the Czech Republic on one side and Germany and Austria on the other. For historical reasons, the Bohemian and German sides have different names: in Czech, the Bohemian side is called Šumava and the Bavarian side Zadní Bavorský les, while in German, the Bohemian side is called Böhmerwald (literally, "Bohemian Forest"), and the Bavarian side Bayerischer Wald (literally, "Bavarian Forest"). In Czech, Šumava is also used as a name for the entire adjacent region in Bohemia.