Čerchov

Lookout is located in the Czech forest towards the border crossing Hazelnuts.

 "Čerchov" (1042 m) is the place where I recently received an ordinary mortal. We will find him less than two kilometers from the German border. Almost a century of history of stone laid on its top, started to write the members of KCT in 1894, when the rock was built wooden Čerchovské eighteen meters high tower. In 1897, the tower was built "cozy" Czech Tourist Club. Once designers and patrons of the building was named "the huts of Passau. Between 1904 - 1905 built in place of an old lookout tower new stone called "exchange tower, 23 m high, and was supplemented in 1927 once again a tourist lodge. In 1938 the building took the German army in 1950 after the Czechoslovak army. She transformed the tower to "his image" in the vicinity of the ugly monster built for radio technical fight. In the seventies, the military also succumbed to the surrounding cottages. The peak of the long become part of the border zone, and was unavailable komukoliov ... After 1989 the tower was brought back Domažlickému KCT. He made careful reconstruction, and 16 July 2000, solemnly znovuzpřístupnil.

 

How to get it is best to leave the car in the village Capartice where you go to the top Čerchov foot asphalt road kilometers long cca5

Lookout Tower opened in July and August every day 9:00 to 5:00 p.m. hour in May, June and September on weekends 9:00 to 5:00 p.m. hours. Additional dates for groups can agree on the numbers or  00420 379 795 142

00420 606 299 010 (administrator of the tower, Mr. George Mathauser).