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Reichenstein Castle Ruins – Bügellohe — Abandoned Village loop from Stadlern

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Reichenstein Castle Ruins – Bügellohe — Abandoned Village loop from Stadlern

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Reichenstein Castle Ruins – Bügellohe — Abandoned Village loop from Stadlern

02:51

9.89km

230m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 3, 2026

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Naturpark Oberpfälzer Wald

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532 m

Hochfels

Highlight • Natural Monument

While most of the gneiss peaks in the area are in the forest, the high rock offers a special landscape experience due to its open location and the surrounding boulder heaths. In order to preserve the open landscape, the area is protected as a natural monument and is carefully maintained.

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636 m

Hochfels gneiss rock formation

Highlight • Natural Monument

Along the Sautreibergasse to the villageügellohe and then to the Bohemian Forest Tower (great view)

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1.61 km

Reichenstein Castle Ruins

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An enchanted castle ruin rises on a mountain out of the forest and offers you a beautiful view. This place is said to have been inhabited since the 11th century. Today a part of the former keep, a few walls and a legend according to which a gold treasure is said to be buried under the castle bear witness to this.

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2.76 km

View of Großer Arber from Waldhäuser Ski Slope

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Nice view up to the Arber.

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3.06 km

Panorama Cinema at Weingartenfels

Highlight • Viewpoint

Beautifully designed cinema seats and a view of a wonderful forest and mountain panorama. It's a great place to spend time; it never gets boring.

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3.16 km

Böhmerwald Observation Tower

Highlight • Viewpoint

A wonderful view of the Upper Palatinate, Bohemian, and Bavarian Forests can be enjoyed from the glass-enclosed viewing platform. Visitors are at an altitude of 898 meters, the highest point in the Schwandorf district. The tower is 30 meters high.

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3.95 km

Bügellohe — Abandoned Village

Highlight • Historical Site

The abandoned village of Bügellohe lies directly on the Czech border. It can only be reached on foot, via a hiking trail of about three kilometers. At an altitude of 852 meters, ruins of houses stand in a clearing and in the forest. What today attracts curious visitors as a "lost place" was once a settlement where up to 75 people lived after the Second World War: Sudeten Germans from Wenzelsdorf, just one kilometer away. They had retreated to the Bavarian mountain saddle in the winter of 1945/46 to avoid expulsion from Czechoslovakia. They owned land on the saddle, a piece of land that juts out into Bohemia like a bow. They wanted to wait there until they could return home.
Over time, the makeshift emergency shelters in the abandoned village of Bügellohe became permanent houses. A settlement was built from materials that had to be laboriously carried through the forest from the village of Stadlern, four kilometers away, to Bügellohe.
The hopes of the Bügelloh residents of returning to their old homeland were dashed. In 1950, the Prague government began razing Wenzelsdorf to the ground. Across the border, many Bügelloh residents gave up; life in isolation, without electricity or running water, was too hard. They moved away. Eventually, only one remained: Josef Licha. He, too, left Bügellohe in the fall of 1967.

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8.43 km

Reichenstein Tree Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Interesting path with beautiful wooden animal pictures, nice for children too

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9.89 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.26 km

2.79 km

628 m

214 m

Surfaces

4.04 km

3.92 km

1.63 km

210 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Monday 31 August

21°C

12°C

44 %

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Comments

June 9, 2025,Böhmerwaldturm – Gneis am Hochfels Runde von Stadlern

After the rainy days, another beautiful hike today.
The best part was the view, simply breathtaking 😊.
It took a good three hours.

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August 24, 2025,Grenzerlebnis - Böhmerwaldturm und Bügellohe

On the "Border Experience Trail" near Stadlern – truly an experience: past the Hochfels and the hidden Reichenstein Castle ruins on old paths towards the Czech border, to the Bohemian Forest Tower (magnificent view), and further to the abandoned village of Bügellohe.
This village was originally built as a temporary solution by displaced families – within sight of their old …

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March 11, 2023,😊Gneis am Hochfels, Reichenstein, Böhmerwaldturm, Sautreibergasse, Stadlern❄🤘🍺

After the walk with my grandson, a little connection round if I'm already in the area.............

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November 12, 2022,7 Kreise, 7 Gipfel - Landkreis Schwandorf Weingartenfels 898 m ü NN

The Upper Palatinate consists of 7 districts and thus has 7 highest mountain peaks (we will leave the 3 independent cities out for the time being). I started today with my sister in the Heimatladkreis with the 898 m high Weingartenfels on the level near Stadlern.
The following summits are still outstanding:
NM: Limpelberg with 643 m above sea level. …

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May 5, 2024,Böhmerwaldturm – Gneis am Hochfels Runde von tadlern

Wonderful hike on pleasant paths and super beautiful views at various places

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October 23, 2021,Zum Dach des Landkreises Schwandorf

Today a small afternoon tour to the roof of the district of Schwandorf. It started in Stadlern for a while on paths parallel to the state road and then through the wild and romantic Sautreibergasse to the former settlementügellohe. The settlement was founded between 1946 and 1948. The last resident left the settlement in 1970. In the area of theügellohe …

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Reichenstein Castle Ruins – Bügellohe — Abandoned Village loop from Stadlern

Hochfels

Hochfels gneiss rock formation

Reichenstein Castle Ruins

View of Großer Arber from Waldhäuser Ski Slope

Panorama Cinema at Weingartenfels

Böhmerwald Observation Tower

Bügellohe — Abandoned Village

Reichenstein Tree Trail

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