List of monuments and pavilions in the Karlovy Vary city forest

The list of monuments and pavilions in Karlsbad town forest contains the most important buildings (Viewpoints, observation towers, monuments, pavilions, chapels, crosses and cottages), which in the period 1790-2000 in the Karlovy Vary City Forest ( Lázeňské lesy Karlovy Vary were built). Some of these buildings are under monument protection. The most important spa and hiking trails are also listed.

List of monuments and buildings in the city forest

Note: DS = under monument protection

image	Name of the building (czech.)	Name of the building (German)	Path and location	comment
Viewpoints
	Jelení skok (Kamzík) (450 m)	Chamois rocks at the so-called Hirschsprung	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	Viewpoint with bronze statue of a chamois from 1851, built by Baron August von Lützow (1795–1872), after destruction, copy from 1986 [1]
	Mayerův gloriet	Mayer-Gloriette	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	built in 1804 by businessman Franz Mayer [2] [3]
	Vyhlídka Petra Velikého (489 m)	Petershöhe	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	Viewpoint on the Petershöhe, which Tsar Peter the Great climbed during his visit to Karlsbad in 1712 [4] [5]
	Jelení skok (restaurace)	Deer jump view at the "Jelení skok" café	Pod Jelením skokem 884/2 (location)
Observation towers
	Rozhledna Diana (562 m)	Diana (observation tower)	Vrch přátelství 5/1 (location)	DS, built 1912–1914 on the Friendship Heights; Architect: Anton Breinl, from 1926 Hans-Kudlich -Warte, now Diana observation tower [6]
	Rozhledna Goethova vyhlídka (638 m)	Lookout tower Goethe-view	Gogolova stezka (location)	DS, observation tower at the height of Eternal Life, built in 1888/89 by Fellner & Helmer , originally Stephaniewarte, named after Crown Princess Stephanie of Belgium (1864–1945), later Stifterwarte on Adalbert-Stifter-Weg, now Goethewarte on Gogolweg [7 ]
	Vyhlídka Karla IV. (514 m)	Charles IV lookout tower	Jižní vrch (location)	DS, originally Franz Joseph Tower, built in 1877 in neo-Gothic style on the Hammerberg (Hamerský vrch) based on the model of the Luisenberg Tower in Kellinghusen [8] [9]
	Doubská hora (610 m)	Aberg observation tower (also Aarberg)	Sovova stezka 887 (location)	built 1904–1905 on the Aberg by the Karlsbad master builder Josef Waldert according to the project of the architect Rudolf Melichar [10]
Monuments
	Busta Johanna Wolfganga Goetha	Goethe monument	Goethova stezka (location)	DS, Goethe bust by Adolf von Donndorf in memory of JW Goethe's stays in Karlsbad from 1785 to 1823 [11] [12]
	Busta Adama Mickiewicze	Mickiewicz monument	Slovenská (location)	DS, Mickiewicz bust by Břetislav Werner (1948), originally a bust by the sculptor Tadeusz Barącz (1897), in memory of Adam Mickiewicz's stay (1829) in Karlovy Vary (memorial plaque on the house Nová louka 287/9) [13]
	Busta Petra Velikého	Tsar Peter I monument	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	DS, bust of Thomas Seidan (1877) on the Petershöhe [14] [15]
	Tereziin obelisk	Theresa Obelisk	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	erected in 1834 for Marie Thérèse Charlotte d'Angoulême (1778–1851) [16]
	Pomník Friedricha Schillera	Schiller monument	Goethehova stezka (location)	DS, monument (1909) by Friedrich Ohmann with a marble relief by Max Hiller (1869–1954) in memory of Friedrich Schiller's stay in Karlsbad (1791), where he lived in the former house of the White Swan (Divadelní náměstí 247/3) [17 ] [18]
	Pomník Fryderyka Chopina	Chopin monument	Chopinova stezka (location)	Relief with a portrait of Chopin on a rock on the Chopin Path in memory of Frédéric Chopin's (1810–1849) stay in Karlsbad (1835)
	Findlaterův obelisk	Findlater Obelisk	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	erected in 1804 below the Friendship Heights (Výšina přátelství) in memory of the Scottish garden architect James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater (1750–1811) [19] [20]
	Pomník Karla Filipa Schwarzenberga	Schwarzenberg monument	Dvořákova stezka (location)	Monument in the park near the Posthof, erected in 1818 in memory of Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg (1771–1820) [21]
	Pomník Františka Josefa I.	Former Kaiser Franz Josef Monument	Slovenská (location)	Monument to Emperor Franz Joseph I , erected in 1911 on the site of the current Beethoven monument , was removed in 1923, transported to Vienna in 1934 and erected in Eisenstadt in 1937 [22]
	Pomník Ludwiga van Beethovena	Beethoven monument	Slovenská (location)	DS, built in 1929, by the Karlsbad sculptor Hugo Uher , in memory of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770–1827) stay in Karlsbad in the house of the eye of God (1812) [23]
	Pomník Antonína Dvořáka	Dvořák monument	in Dvořák Park (location)	erected in 1974 by Karel Kuneš to commemorate the seven stays of Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) from 1879 to 1894 and the European premiere of his 9th symphony "From the New World" in Karlsbad in 1894 [24] [25]
	Pomník Bedřicha Smetany	Smetana monument	Slovenská (location)	DS, Smetana monument, erected in 1950 by Josef Wagner (1901–1957) [26] [27]
	Pomník Karla Marxe	Karl Marx Monument	Petra Velikého (location)	erected in 1988 by Karel Kuneš in memory of Karl Marx's stay in Karlsbad (1874) [28]
	Pomník sv. Bernarda z Clairvaux	Bernhard von Clairvaux monument	in Skalnik Park (location)	Bernhard von Clairvaux monument (1706) in Skalnik Park [29] [30]
	Socha hygie	Hygieia monument	in the hot spring colonnade (location)	DS, Hygieia monument in the hot spring colonnade, 1878 by Vincenz Pilz (1816–1896) [31] [32]
	Náhrobní came to Mozarta	Gravestone for Mozart's son	in Mozart Park (location)	Gravestone of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791–1844) in Mozart Park (formerly Andreasfriedhof) [33]
	Sloup vévodů cambridgeských	Pillar of the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess of Cambridge	in Skalnik Park (location)	Granite column from 1834 for the Duke of Cambridge Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge , in Skalnik Park on the summit of the Bernhardfelsen [34]
	Socha Pany Marie Neposkvrněného početí	Marian column	Drahovice, Hřbitovní (location)	Monument to the Immaculate Conception of Mary (1704) [35]
	Ottův sloup (Ottova výšina, 602 m)	Column for King Otto I.	Gogolova stezka (location)	Column for King Otto I of Greece (1815–1867), erected in 1852 on the König-Otto-Höhe, in memory of King Otto's five stays in Karlsbad (1836 to 1865) [36] [37]
	Rondel se sochou kočky	Rondell with cat pillar	Stezka Jana de Carro (location)	DS, roundel with a cat statue by the Berlin sculptor August Kiss at the Villa Lützow, erected by Baron August von Lützow (1795–1872), in protest about the installation of the statue of Charles IV in the neighboring park [38]
	Socha Karla IV.	Jubilee column Charles IV.	in the Jean de Carro Park (location)	by Joseph Max (1804–1855), erected in 1858 in Jean-de-Carro-Park for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the city of Karlsbad, originally in the garden of the Lützow Villa [39] [40]
	Socha lovkyně lvů / Socha jezdce	Statue of a lion hunter and equestrian statue	Stezka Jana de Carro (location)	Statue of a lion hunter and equestrian statue in the garden of Villa Lützow [41] [42]
	Sloup vděčných Maďarů	Monument to the Grateful Hungarians	U Imperiálu (location)	Memorial column for Hungarian patients, granite column with German, French and Hungarian dedications, erected in 1883 by L. Tröger [43] [44]
	Diana	Diana sculpture	Beethovenova stezka (location)	Diana sculpture on Beethovenweg
	Plastika jelena	Deer sculpture	Park at the Hotel Richmond (location)	Deer sculpture by August Kiss, originally in the park of the Lützow Villa, since 1932 in the garden at the Hotel Richmond [45]
	Pomník Městských lesů Karlovarských	Monument 675 years of the Karlsbader Stadtwald	Sovova stezka (location)	Monument 675 years of the Karlsbader Stadtwald (also known as the Bäderwald)
	Památník Kniha	Book memorial	Sovova stezka (location)	with the inscription "In memory of our good mother Frau AM Heinrich - Mähr. Ostrau - Karlsbad - 1930", on Sovaweg [46]
	Busta Theodora Körnera	Grain bust	Březová (Pirkenhammer) (location)	Bust for Theodor Körner (1791–1813) by the Dresden sculptor Hermann Hultzsch (1837–1905), erected in 1888 (cast by C. Albert, Dresden), removed in 1947, re-erected after 2000 [47]
	Bývalý pomník Theodora Körnera	Former Grain monument	Slovenská (location)	Former Monument to Theodor Körner, who stayed in Karlsbad in 1810, 1811 and 1813, originally erected in 1863 in Dalovice Palace Park (Dallwitz), sculptor: Thomas Seidan (1830–1890), moved in 1891 near the Schiller monument, destroyed in 1946 [48]
Pavilions
	Altán Aloise Kleina - pramen Štěpánka	Alois Klein pavilion with the Stephanie spring	Slovenská (location)	Octagonal pavilion Alois Klein with the Stephanie spring at the Japanese Garden, octagonal wooden pavilion in the Swiss style, named after the original owner of the Richmond hotel and the Austrian Archduchess Stephanie of Belgium (1864–1945), built in 1884, now a replica from 1997 [ 49]
	Beethovenův altán	Beethoven pavilion	on Beethoven- and Mickiewiczweg (location)	erected in memory of Beethoven's concert with the Italian violinist Giovanni Battista Polledro in August 1812 [50]
	Chopinův altán	Chopin Pavilion	Chopinova stezka (location)	opposite the Ecce Homo Chapel
	Aranova lavička	Arany Bank	Chopinova stezka (location)	opposite the Ecce Homo Chapel, built in 1906 in memory of the Hungarian poet János Arany
	Dorotin altán	Dorotheen Pavilion	Slovenská (location)	DS, Empire temple of Count Christian von Clam-Gallas for the Duchess Dorothea von Kurland , called Dorotheen Pavillon, with the inscription: "Dorotheen's Aue - In memory of the Archduchess of Curland, June 21, 1791" [51] [ 52]
	Fibichův altán	Fibich Pavilion	Sovova stezka (location)	at the forester's house Diana, in memory of the Czech composer Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900)
	Findlaterův altán	Findlater Pavilion	Findlaterova stezka (location)	DS, built in 1801 by the master carpenter Knoll on behalf of the Scottish count and garden architect James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater (1750–1811), who stayed in Carlsbad a total of fourteen times from 1793 to 1810 [53]
	Altán Kristýna	Christina Pavilion	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	above the Gemsenfelsen (Hirschsprung)
	Altan U Obrazu	Pavilion at the picture (hut at Marienbild)	Russelova cesta (location)	built in 1894, renovated in 2009 [54]
	Altán Bellevue	Bellevue pavilion	Machová (location)	Pillar viewing pavilion Bellevue, built in 1834 on the former Galgenberg on the way to Drahovice (Drahowitz) [55] [56]
	Vyhlídkový altán Camera obscura (518 m)	Camera obscura observation pavilion	Turgeněvova stezka (location)	with wooden pavilion on the plateau of the former Rudolfshöhe (518 m), restored in 1997 [57]
	Altán Tři kříže	Three Cross Mountain Pavilion	Tři kříže (location)	restored in 2000 and 2006 by Ivan Štros [58]
	Altán panorama	Panorama pavilion	U Tří křížů (location)	on the Turgenewweg
	Altán Básníků	Poets' Pavilion	Beethovenova stezka (location)	on Beethovenweg [59]
	Jungmannův altán	Jungmann pavilion	Jungmannova cesta (location)	on Jungmannweg, named after the Czech patriot Josef Jungmann (1773–1847)
Chapels
	Chapel sv. Anny (Schwarzova kaple)	Annenkapelle (Black Chapel)	Sovova stezka (location)	built in the 18th century by Kasper Schwarz on Sovaweg [60] [61]
	Ave Maria chapel	Ave Maria wayside shrine	(Location)
	Chapter Ecce Homo	Ecce Homo Chapel (also Hammerkapelle)	on the circular route (Okružní cesta) (location)	opposite the Chopin Pavilion, built in 1900 [62] [63]
	Lesní pobožnost	Forest prayer (altar and hut)	Russelova cesta (location)	Altar on a stone hill on Russelweg, erected in 1910 by the Karlsbad City Councilor Hugo Anger on Russelweg below the Russell rock, renovated in 2005 [64]
	Kaplička U Obrazu	Image of Mary	Russelova cesta (location)	Image of the Virgin Mary since 1716, built around 1900 in the form of a pseudo-Gothic niche chapel in the form of an altar made of white marble, originally with the image of the Virgin Mary with the hot spring by the Viennese Art Nouveau painter Franz Matsch (1861–1942), replaced in 1995 by a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 2009 [65] [66]
	Chaplain Panny Marie	Lady Chapel	Mariánská (location)	behind the Grandhotel Pupp, originally built around 1700, neo-Gothic building from 1885/86 [67] [68]
	Chapel sv. Linharta	Leonhard Chapel	Sovova stezka (location)	Originally from the 17th century, classicist building from 1838, commissioned by Elizabeth Anne, Lady William Russell (1793–1874), wife of the British diplomat Lord George William Russell (1790–1846), renovated in 1884 in neo-Gothic style by Ampthill Russel (1829–1884), son of Lady William Russell, renewed in 2007 [69] [70]
	Kostel sv. Linharta	Church ruin St. Leonhard	Sovova stezka (location)	DS, originally built around 1200 as a fortified church, later derelict, secured and preserved as a ruin in 1998/99 [71] [72]
	Chapel sv. Nikolaje	Nikolaikapelle	Doubská hora (location)	Russian Orthodox wooden chapel, made in the Sergijew Possad monastery in Russia, built by Nikolai Gennadijewitsch Stepanow in 1999/2000 on Aberg (Doubská hora) [73] [74]
Crosses
	Keglewičův kříž	Keglewicz Cross	Mariánská (location)	Wooden cross from 1795 on the Tschirlfelsen, erected by the Hungarian provost Sigmund Graf Keglewitsch from Gran , renewed in 1990 and 2008 [75]
	Tři kříže (554 m)	Three crosses on the Three Cross Mountain	Tři Kříže (location)	erected around 1640 on the Buchberg, now with a viewing pavilion, renovated in 1985 and 2000, the construction of a cable car begun in 1912 was never completed [76] [77]
	Rohanův kříž	Rohan Cross	Rohanova stezka (location)	erected in 1878 on the Falkenhügel in memory of the long-time spa guest Camille Philippe Joseph Idesbald Prince de Rohan , Duke of Montbazon and Bouillon, Prince of Guéméné and Rochefort (1800-1892) [78]
	Kříž na skále u Rohanovy cesty	Cross on the rock at Rohanweg	Rohanova stezka (location)
Huts
	Lesovna Diana	Forester's house Diana	Sovova stezka (location)	former forester's house on Sovaweg
	Luční chata	Luční hut	Sovova stezka (location)	Hut on the Sovaweg
	Chata Na Hřišti	Na Hřiští hut	Branaldova stezka (location)	Hut on Branaldweg
	Chata Přátelství	Friendship Hut	Cesta Přátelství (location)	Hut on the friendship path
	Altán U Vojty (chata Na Hůrkách)	U Vojti pavilion	Gogolova stezka (location)	Hut on Gogolweg
	Chata V Sedle	Hut under the Otto prospect	Gogolova stezka (location)	Hut on Gogolweg
	Gogolova chata	Gogol hut	Turgeněvova stezka (location)	on the Turgenewweg
	Chata Rusalka	Rusalka Hut (Maurig Hut)	Cesta Přátelství (location)	Originally built in 1810 by Count Chotek , a pavilion, known as the Maurig Hut since 1906, now the Rusalka Hut near the Friendship Trail [79]
	Kazatelna	Kazatelna Hut (pulpit view)	Cesta Přátelství (location)	Hut near Friendship Trail
	Russelův srub	Russelsitz	Russelova cesta (location)	on Russelweg
	Libušina chata	Libušina hut	Beethovenova stezka (location)	Hut on Beethovenweg
	Altán na Výšině	Pavilion on the heights	Okružní pěšina (location)
	Chata Bezejmnenná	Hut without a name	Okružní pěšina (location)

List of spa and hiking trails in the city forest

The list of spa and hiking trails in Karlovy Vary includes named walking and hiking trails in the Karlovy Vary City Forest, which spa guests and hikers use to get to the most important sights. Their total length is about 120 km.

• Beethovenova stezka - Beethovenweg, named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) [80]
• Branaldova cesta - Branaldweg, named after the Czech writer Adolf Branald (1910–2008)
• Cesta Přátelství - friendship path, named after the friendship height [81]
• Chopinova stezka - Chopinweg, named after the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
• Chotkova pěšina - Chotekweg, named after the noble family Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin [82]
• Doubská pěšina - Doubí way, named after the place Doubí (Aich), OT of Karlsbad [83]
• Dvořákova stezka - Dvořákweg, named after the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), formerly Theodor-Körner-Weg
• Fibichova stezka - Fibichweg, named after the Czech composer Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900) [84]
• Findlaterova stezka - Findlaterweg, named after the Scottish nobleman James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater (1750–1811) [85]
• Goethova stezka - Goetheweg, named after the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) [86]
• Gogolova stezka - Gogolweg zur Goethewarte (Goethova vyhlídka), named after the Russian writer Gogol (1809-1852), formerly Adalbert-Stifter -Weg zur Stifterwarte [87] [88]
• Jubilejní stezka - jubilee path, named after the 500th anniversary of the city's foundation (1858) [89]
• Jungmannova cesta - Jungmannweg, named after the Czech patriot Josef Jungmann (1773–1847)
• Labického pěšina - Labitzkyweg, named after the composer Joseph Labitzky (1802–1881) [90]
• Lesmistrova cesta - Forstmeisterweg [91]
• Marxova pěšina - Marxweg, named after Karl Marx [92]
• Mickiewiczova stezka - Mickiewiczweg, named after the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) [93]
• Nerudova stezka - Nerudaweg, named after the Czech writer Jan Neruda (1834–1891) [94] [95]
• Odpolední stezka - afternoon walk [96]
• Okružní cesta - hiking circuit [97]
• Okružní pěšina - circular bicycle route
• Pěšina Karla Čapka - Karel-Čapek-Weg, named after the Czech writer Karel Čapek (1890–1938)
• Rohanova stezka - Rohanweg, named after Camille Philippe Joseph Idesbald Prince of Rohan (1800–1892) [98] [99]
• Rusalčina cesta - Rusalkaweg, named after the Slavic mythical creature Rusalka [100]
• Russelova cesta - Russelweg during forest prayer (Lesní pobožnost), named after Elizabeth Anne, Lady William Russell (1793–1874), wife of the British diplomat Lord George William Russell (1790–1846) [101] [102]
• Sovova stezka - Sovaweg, named after the Czech writer Antonín Sova (1864–1928) [103]
• Tuhnická cesta –Tuhniceweg, named after Tuhnice (Donitz), OT of Karlsbad [104]
• Turgeněvova stezka - Turgenewweg, named after the Russian writer Ivan Turgenew (1818–1883) [105]

Stanislav Burachovič (* 1950) describes the genius loci of Karlovy Vary and names the most famous spa guests who have walked on these paths. See also: List of structures in Karlovy Vary

literature

• The leader in Carlsbad and its surroundings, Carlsbad, 1857, 156 S. and equipment, digitized (accessed on 11 July 2019)
• Burachovič, Stanislav: Karlsbad und Umgebung, Chemnitz, 2005, 112 pages, ISBN 978-3-928678-85-8
• Travel guide - Karlsbad (history / culture / monuments), see [106]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karlovy Vary - Sights (accessed July 11, 2019)
2. ↑ Památky a příroda Karlovarska (Monuments and Nature in the Karlovy Vary Region) (Czech) (accessed July 11, 2019)
3. ↑ Lázeňské lesy Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad City Forest) (accessed on July 11, 2019)
4. ↑ Historické a kulturní památky v Karlovarském kraji (Cultural and historical monuments in the Karlovy Vary Region) (Czech) (accessed on July 11, 2019)
5. ↑ Stanislav Burachovič: Genius loci Karlových Varů ( Czech ) Památky a příroda Karlovarska. Retrieved August 20, 2019.

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