The best MTB trails around Jizerskohorské bučiny

It was closed, but there was a cooler with an honesty box under the awning.

The church is really good to see from a distance 👍

The Bike Centrum Libverda offers bike rental, snacks and a seating area.

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Hřebínek lodge on the Jizera Mountains main road at an altitude of 835 m; located directly at a crossroads, it practically invites you to take a break ... (the main paths in the mountains are often asphalted so that they are suitable for racing bikes, and on short sections they are alternatively paved with concrete slabs);

Usually open from 11, very tasty food and beer. Friendly bicycle infrastructure.

Good place for a little break with nice views over the forest

According to legend, a chapel was built in 1211 after a healing by grace. A poor, exhausted sieve maker from the village of Mildeneichen had lain down under a linden tree in the forest, recovered as if by a miracle, and then bought a picture of the Virgin Mary in neighboring Zittau, which he attached to the linden tree under which he had found healing. The builder of the Chapel of Mary the Graceful is said to have been a Lord of Bieberstein; the chapel is said to have been considerably expanded in 1242 and 1272.[3] The town of Haindorf grew up around this chapel and was first mentioned in a document in the land register of the Friedland lordship in 1381. When further miraculous healings occurred, the enlarged St. John's Chapel was built in 1352 and expanded into a Gothic church in 1472. From 1558 to 1621, Haindorf, like all of Bohemia, was Evangelical Lutheran for three generations and the Roman Catholic church was closed. During the re-Catholicization of Bohemia during the Thirty Years' War, the miraculous image was again set up and venerated in St. John's Church in Haindorf. In 1690, the Franciscan order took over the church and the pastoral care of pilgrims. In 1691, the owner of the Friedland manor, Franz Ferdinand von Gallas, donated a monastery[4] to the order with a Gallas family crypt, which was completed in 1696. In 1693, a pilgrimage route with 15 chapels was built on the way from Friedland to Haindorf. The influx and stay of the increasing number of pilgrims made Haindorf a wealthy place; in 1721, 64,000 communicants were counted. In 1761, the church burned down, but the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary was saved. Through the efforts of the locals and donations from outsiders, the pilgrimage church was rebuilt between 1722 and 1729 as an impressive "Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary" according to plans by the Prague architect Thomas Haffenecker. The interior had space for 7,000 people. The influx of pilgrims and the veneration of the Virgin Mary began again. During the Josephinist period from 1780 to 1790, processions were forbidden and the precious votive offerings were removed. In 1810, in the period after Napoleon Bonaparte, the processions of pilgrims to the miraculous image were revived. Statistics before the First World War indicate an annual number of visitors of more than 100,000, with 60,000 to 70,000 communicants annually.