2 – The remains of the Golden Road by Horní Antýgl
The passage of the Golden Road by Horní Antýgl
Below Horská Kvilda, the Golden Road entered a free landscape, crossed the Hamry stream and began to climb to the opposite plateau. It likely went through the same corridor as today’s road for cyclists and cross-country skiers, all the way to Horní Antýgl. A sunken lane can be seen above it, in the newly denuded clearing.
Other more or less visible remains of the road, mostly manifested as sunken lanes, all lie on the green tourist trail.
Below Horská Kvilda, the Golden Road entered a free landscape, crossed the Hamry stream and began to climb to the opposite plateau. It likely went through the same corridor as today’s road for cyclists and cross-country skiers, all the way to Horní Antýgl. A sunken lane can be seen above it, in the newly denuded clearing.
Other more or less visible remains of the road, mostly manifested as sunken lanes, all lie on the green tourist trail.
Remains of the Golden Road by Horní Antýgl
The remains of the Golden road in the forests below Luzný were still visible from both sides of the border in the 19th century. The Schwarzenberg forest geodesist A. Brzorád captured the Bohemian part of the Golden Road on a map in the summer of 1882 and published his findings shortly after. A. Brzorád captured the basic and most characteristic feature of medieval trade routes in a mountainous terrain – mainly the attempt to avoid wetlands, even if it means steeper ascent.
Remains of the Golden Road by Horní Antýgl
Area, nature, personalities, events
Thanks to specific natural conditions, Šumava is home to species which were gradually pushed out of lower areas due to changes in ecosystems. Those are especially rare glacial relics. They are the remains of the tundra, which spread with a land glacier to Central Europe during the Ice Age. The remains of this process in Šumava include for example these species: the brown gentian (Gentianella pannonica), garden monkshood (Aconitum plicatum), (Gentianella praecox subsp. bohemica), black rampion (Phyteuma nigrum), the alpine clubmoss (Diphasiastrum alpinum), dwarf birch (Betula nana), mountain snowbell (Soldanella montana) and others. Other important species in Šumava include water plants such as Merlin’s grass (Isoetes lacustris) in the Black lake and spiny quillwort (Isoetes echinospora) in Plešné lake – Šumava being the only Czech locality where these species grow.
Thanks to specific natural conditions, Šumava is home to species which were gradually pushed out of lower areas due to changes in ecosystems. Those are especially rare glacial relics. They are the remains of the tundra, which spread with a land glacier to Central Europe during the Ice Age. The remains of this process in Šumava include for example these species: the brown gentian (Gentianella pannonica), garden monkshood (Aconitum plicatum), (Gentianella praecox subsp. bohemica), black rampion (Phyteuma nigrum), the alpine clubmoss (Diphasiastrum alpinum), dwarf birch (Betula nana), mountain snowbell (Soldanella montana) and others. Other important species in Šumava include water plants such as Merlin’s grass (Isoetes lacustris) in the Black lake and spiny quillwort (Isoetes echinospora) in Plešné lake – Šumava being the only Czech locality where these species grow.
Dwarf birch „Betula nana“
After the end of the Golden Road and the Golden Trail
On a place called Horní Antýgl used to stand a glassworks. It was the highest situated glassworks in the country, and it gave the place its name Antýgl (Ein Tiegel – a glassworks with only one melting pot). The former gamekeeper’s lodge which still stands here is a protected mountain house with a typical Šumavian bell tower on the roof.
On a place called Horní Antýgl used to stand a glassworks. It was the highest situated glassworks in the country, and it gave the place its name Antýgl (Ein Tiegel – a glassworks with only one melting pot). The former gamekeeper’s lodge which still stands here is a protected mountain house with a typical Šumavian bell tower on the roof.