6 tips for an afternoon trip to Brda
If you want to go to Brda, you don't have to plan a day hike right away. You can see many places during an afternoon walk.
If you want to go to Brda, you don't have to plan a day hike right away. You can see many places during an afternoon walk - especially if you start from Orlov, Kozičín, Lázně or Obecnice. We have selected six of the most interesting destinations.
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1. The Láz reservoir itself is located in a very magical place. The whole valley is wooded, the pond in the middle of the woods is almost unexpected. The reservoir was built between 1818 and 1822 as a water reservoir for the Březohorské mining district and was connected to the Pilská reservoir above by a surface brick channel. There are extensive wetlands and peat bogs above the reservoir. This area is called the Šajtech, a name derived from the German das Scheit, log. If you leave the main road and go deeper into the woods, you will find a stone cross with clover-ended arms in the middle of these marshes. This is a peace cross, one of several in Brdy, in this case marking the spot where the twenty-six year old forester Linek was shot by poachers around 1804. There are several versions of the story, depending on whether it was a Vranovice or Laz narrative. They differ in the first name of the murdered man and the names of the captured poachers. One of them says that the young man Jan Linek did not agree to his father's remarriage, and so, in order not to have to be present at it, he went to his father's hunting ground on the day of the wedding, where he encountered poachers. It is said that he managed to write the names of his murderers on the cuff of his sleeves in his own blood. 2. The enterprising Adler at Sklená Hut In the middle of the 18th century, a windstorm swept through the Brdy Mountains, leaving behind extensive forest fires. The glass entrepreneur Tobias Matěj Adler from Hutí pod Třemšínem took advantage of this and leased the forest from František Gundakar Collored, the then owner of the estate, and built a glassworks there. The glassworks also needed water, which Adler brought from the nearby Litavka springs to a small pond via a ditch. The glassworks stood here from 1749. In 1770, it was taken over by his son Tobias Raphael Adler, and after its closure in 1783, the Adlers left for Šumava. The glassworks was dismantled and the material was used for the construction of a farmhouse on the same site (later turned into a hunting lodge). After the establishment of a military shooting range in the 20th century, it was demolished. In addition to the pond, there is now a hayloft with a massive Douglas fir opposite and a pen with a two-storey feeding pen where deer are usually kept in winter.
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The glassworks needed water, Adler brought it from the nearby Litavka springs through a ditch to a small pond, photo: Karolina Ketmanová
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3. Behind the hermit to the pond "You are walking through the dense growth of summer forest echoed by the gentle buzzing of flies and suddenly - wherever it came from - something you would not expect to find here in the high Brdy Mountains appears in front of you: a small lake overgrown with the flowers of the white water lily," Jan Čáka describes in his book Střední Brdy - Landscape Unknown asmall forest lake below the Zavírka hill. "It looks like a lake, but in reality it is a small pond with a low dam. Nobody knows who built it in this place, when and why. In the absence of historical data, there is a legend: this place was once inhabited by a hermit. Old forts from Skelné Hut still showed traces of the foundations of the hermitage near the pond and old forestry maps also support the legend. This corner is mentioned in them under the name of the Hermit," writes Čaka. "The story goes that the local hermit, a truly holy man, lived to be more than a hundred years old and when he died, the bells rang out all by themselves in distant Treblinka. And from this village a couple of oxen with a cart, alone without a wagon, set out to the deceased. This was a sign from above that the hermit wished to be buried in Treblinka, and so he was." 4. Castle on Zavírka Pilský Pond is a frequent destination of trips, but few people go to the top of the Zavírka, which rises from its southern banks. The relatively steep slope transitions into a plateau, from the western edge of which a striking needle-shaped or sharp-edged rock rises. In the south-eastern part we find the remains of a large semi-circular mound. According to some sources, there was once a hillfort on the top of Zavirka. This could be proved by the remains of a massive semi-circular stone wall. It can be found in the south-eastern part of the plateau. The rampart is broken by a forest path in the south and similarly in the east. This has caused considerable damage. In the eastern part, however, the remains of the rampart are better preserved and show how massive this work was. The closure is on the list of archaeological phenomena registered by the National Heritage Institute in Prague. There is no marked path to Zavírka. You can go to the top from Pilský rybník, i.e. from the north side, initially through the open forest. The forest paths lead to the peak mainly from the south side.
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The pond U Poustevníka (left) is located a short distance from the Perkanská forest path. You can reach it even if you bypass the Pilská reservoir (right) , photo: Karolina Ketmanová
| 5. Forgotten places in Třemošná Have you been to Třemošná several times before? Next time, try to visit the lesser-known places in the surroundings, in addition to Kazatelna, from which you can see the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, the Novohradské hory and Šumava. You can start, for example, at the forgotten but romantic Kozičínské Rocks. You won't meet crowds of tourists at the nameless well above Slanina, from which a small stream rises, heading towards Kozičín. Next to the frequented Kazatelna, the Little Stone (or also the Snake Rock) is another nice frosty cabin in the Třemošenské Ridge. You can cross it to the U obrázku (At the Picture) saddle, which got its name from the picture on a massive beech tree where miners bow to their patron saint, St. Barbara. You can go back via Malá Třemošná, where you will meet bunkers and a cairn - a reminder of the Second World War and the anti-Nazi resistance in the Příbram region. There were probably no partisans in the bunkers, but the bunkers were used as a shelter for the persecuted and a storehouse for ammunition and explosives. 6. Hat with frost huts and a former hay house It is not far from Třemošná to Klobouček. It forms the eastern tip of the highest mountain in Brda, Tok. The gently ascending western wooded slope at the top, leading into a large rocky clearing, is relatively inconspicuous. The more the traveller is surprised by the dangerous and sharply curved eastern rocky slope. The eastern slopes of Klobouček are among the most interesting. Here one can find ancient stands of debris forests with a very rich tree composition, in difficult terrain, on steep slopes, rocks and debris. Below Klobouček, we can also see a large sloping forest meadow with solitary trees in the middle. Below the steep northeastern slope we find the stone foundations of the famous Klobouček homestead. A laboriously constructed access road can still be seen in the stony terrain, with the possibility of parking carts at the top. Remains of earthworks, located above the hunting lodge, indicate cellars or krechty. Even today, this abandoned site is inspiring. We stand here in awe of the gigantic beech trees, saplings growing out of the rough stony ground.
■ Václav Bešt'ák using Jaroslav Hodrment's texts
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