Mařský vrch Lookout Tower
This lovely 12-meter-high lookout tower, adjacent to the Chapel of St. Wenceslas in the form of a Romanesque rotunda, offers beautiful views of the surrounding Šumava forests and a protected natural monument known as the stone sea.
How to get there
- via red trail (8 km) from Vimperk with a connection to the blue trail near the parking area behind Svatá Máří
- via blue trail from Lštění (4 km)
- via blue trail from Bohumilice (8 km)
- via yellow trail from Čkyně (8 km)
Additional information
Mařský vrch, also called Brdoční vrch, is located approximately 5 km northeast of Vimperk at an elevation of 907 m. On its summit stands a freely accessible lookout tower with a baroque chapel, built between 1935–1937. From the tower, one can enjoy views of Popelní hora, Churáňov, Přilba, and Javorník. The project was initiated by František Teplý, a retired priest and archivist from Malenice. The entire Mařský vrch is a protected natural site, as its northern slope features a unique boulder field made of syenite porphyry (a granite-like rock without quartz), formed during the Pleistocene (early Quaternary).
Do you know that...
…is the tower part of the rotunda with the Chapel of St. Wenceslas and located next to a boulder field from the Quaternary period?
