The Plöckenstein ( Czech : Plechý ) is a mountain, 1,379 m (AA) high, in the Bohemian Forest on the Austro - Czech border. Its summit is the highest point in the Bohemian Forest in both countries, and also the highest point in the regions of Mühlviertel and South Bohemia . It is well known as a result of stories by Adalbert Stifter .
6-710: The Plöckenstein lies between the Austrian village of Schwarzenberg to the south and the Czech village of Nová Pec to the NE. Northeast of, and below the summit on Czech soil, is the lake of Plöckensteiner See , the southernmost of eight glacial lakes in the Bohemian Forest; the northern mountainside is the core zone of the Bohemian Forest National Park (Šumava National Park). The Jezerní potok ( Seebach ) stream rises on
12-760: The German state of Bavaria and the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic . The municipal area stretches along the southern slopes of the Bohemian Forest ( Böhmerwald ) range; about 71 percent of the municipality is forest, and 26 percent is farmland. First mentioned in 1571, the Schwarznperg estates were held by the Bavarian Prince-Bishops of Passau since medieval times. The remote area near
18-576: The Velvet Revolution ). Among the sights and attractions in the area of the Plöckenstein are the following (in alphabetical order): Schwarzenberg am B%C3%B6hmerwald Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in the Austrian state of Upper Austria . Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald lies in the upper (northwestern) Mühlviertel region, near the tripoint with
24-620: The border with the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1638 was the site of a forest glasshouse , which became a possession of Schlägl Abbey in 1719. Under the rule of Empress Maria Theresa , in 1765, Schwarzenberg finally passed to the Upper Austrian crown land of the Habsburg monarchy . The local parish was established according to a 1784 patent issued by Emperor Joseph II . After the Napoleonic Wars ,
30-607: The mountain. About 7 km northeast, in the Czech Republic, is the western end of the Lipno Reservoir . The Plöckenstein lies about 1.3 km east of the tripoint between Germany , Austria and the Czech Republic . The tripoint is roughly east of the Bavarian Plöckenstein ( 1,365 m above sea level (NHN) ). The area of the tripoint is also called Dreiecksmark ( Trojmezí , "tripoint") and links
36-647: The two Plöckensteins over a saddle ( 1,321 m above NHN ). West of the Plöckenstein is Austria's northernmost point. During the Cold War the border area of the Bohemian Forest was inaccessible to citizens of the Eastern Bloc because the Iron Curtain ran through it. The new government under Marián Čalfa , which came to power on 10 December 1989, dismantled the border fortifications in December 1989 (see also
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