Mařský vrch Lookout Tower
This charming 12-meter-high lookout tower, adjacent to the Chapel of St. Wenceslas built in the style of a Romanesque rotunda, offers beautiful views of the surrounding Šumava forests and the stone sea, which is a protected natural monument.
How to get there
Access routes:
- Red trail (8 km) from Vimperk, connecting to the blue trail near the parking lot behind the village of Svatá Máří
- Blue trail from Lštění (4 km)
- Blue trail from Bohumilice (8 km)
- Green and red trail from Čkyně (8 km)
Additional information
Mařský vrch, also called Brdoční vrch, lies about 5 km northeast of the town of Vimperk at an elevation of 907 meters. On its summit stands a freely accessible lookout tower and baroque chapel, built between 1935–1937. From the tower, one can enjoy views of Popelní hora, Churáňov, Přilba, and Javorník. The foundation stone for the tower was laid thanks to František Teplý, a retired priest and archivist from Malenice. The entire hill is protected as a natural monument due to the unique boulder field of syenitic porphyry on its northern slope (a rock similar to granite, but without quartz), which dates back to the Pleistocene epoch.
Do you know that...
…Did you know that the tower is part of the rotunda with the Chapel of St. Wenceslas and stands next to a Pleistocene-era boulder field?
