Luční bouda

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Luční bouda with Luční hora

The Luční bouda ( Eng. Meadow hut ) is a mountain hut in the Czech part of the Giant Mountains . It is located on the White Meadow in the source area of ​​the Bílé Labe (white water) at 1,410 meters, 3 kilometers west of the Schneekoppe and around 500 meters south of the Polish-Czech border. The plateau is located between the main ridge in the north and the Bohemian ridge with the Luční hora (Hochwiesenberg) and Studniční hora (Brunnberg) in the south. The hut is located in Zone 1 of the Krkonoše National Park and cannot be reached by motorized public transport.

history

The Luční bouda is the largest and oldest hut in the Giant Mountains. During construction work in 1869 a stone (according to other sources a millstone) with the engraved year 1623 was found in the foundation walls of the building; this year is now given as the year of foundation. However, it is believed that a wooden hut had been standing on the White Meadow since the second half of the 16th century, which was replaced by a new building with a stone foundation after a fire in 1623. The first written mention of the Wiesenbaude can be found in a purchase contract from 1707.

Agricultural business with an inn

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Wiesenbaude was a large agricultural operation with over 100 hectares of meadows and pastures, cattle and goat husbandry. Due to the location on a trade route through the mountains, the hospitality industry played an important role for the lodge even before tourism began. From 1772 the meadow chalet was owned by the Renner family, who held the hereditary mayor's office of the municipality of Vrchlabi. In addition to traders, the building now also accommodated explorers interested in the Giant Mountains, including the botanist and polymath Thaddäus Haenke , who came here in 1886 on behalf of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences , and the botanist Philipp Maximilian Opiz in 1806 .

Development into a large year-round hotel

The Wiesenbaude in 1920

In 1853 the business passed into the possession of Jakob Renner's son-in-law, Wenzel Hollman, who expanded the building for the first time in a touristic way. From 1886 to 1945, the Wiesenbaude belonged to the extended family Bönsch that owns itself more giant mountain chalets like vultures watch (Výrovka), the focus Baude (Scharfova bouda), the judges Baude (Richterova Bouda) and Renner Baude (Rennerova bouda) were located. At the end of the 19th century, the farm had 60 employees and the restaurant offered hearty soups, meat dishes, trout, pastries and beer. In the high season 700 to 800 warm meals were prepared daily. By 1900 the hut was open to tourists all year round. In 1902 a servant who worked in the Wiesenbaude died when he returned from Hohenelbe to the cottage and was surprised by a snowstorm. He wandered around in the immediate vicinity of the meadow hut, disoriented, and froze to death. In March 1902 and the following three winters, the Dresden painter Otto Fischer and the art critic Walter Hofmann , who later became known as a librarian, lived in the Wiesenbaude for some time . At the time, the property only had one heated room.

From 1913 the tourist business was expanded extensively. A soda factory, a slaughterhouse with butcher shop and a hydroelectric power station were built. In the 1930s, the hotel building was extended, there was a new laundry room with dryers, and new boilers supplied all floors with hot water. There were a hundred guest rooms and mattress dormitories for schools and clubs; Visitors could take skiing lessons, and a gliding school was operated at times. In the 1930s, numerous ski competitions, festivals and regular music and dance events took place in the Wiesenbaude, including events of the nationalist German Gymnastics Association, from which the Sudeten German Party emerged .

1938 to 1945

During the general mobilization in September 1938, the hut was occupied by the Czech military. The staff and owners fled to Silesia. As a result of the Munich Agreement , the Czech troops withdrew, the building was looted and burned down to the stone foundations in the night of October 1st to 2nd, 1938. The new German regional administration provided special funds for the reconstruction according to plans by the architect Ludwig Stigler. The extensive construction work that began in October 1938, which later also included French and Russian forced laborers, was completed in 1941. The well and modern equipped, electrified and centrally heated building was still used for tourism and also served as a training center for the Hitler Youth and for Wehrmacht helpers in military communication. After the end of the war, the German residents of the region, including the Bönsch family, were expelled .

After 1945

After World War II, the meadow hut was used by the Czechoslovak army, then by the Czechoslovak sports club ČSTV and from 1990 by the Czech tourist association KČT . In 1993 privatization took place; The owners were successively the companies CDH Chrastava , which loaned the building with almost 50 million crowns, and Trecon , which took over the property in 1995. The private owners had difficulties to cope with the repayment of debts, the high heating costs and the backlog of repairs in the building and the requirements of the national park administration to build a modern sewage treatment plant. In 2002 there was only one small snack bar open in the hut. In 2002 the CDH Chrastava company went bankrupt. Trecon terminated the sale and the property was added to CDH's bankruptcy estate and auctioned off. One of the potential buyers was the National Park Administration KRNAP , but the mountain hotel was bought by the Prague company AEZZ for ten and a half million crowns .

From 2004

At the end of 2004, after a two-year break, overnight accommodation for tourists was offered again, a new sewage treatment plant went into operation, and the Horská služba mountain rescue service set up a permanently manned station in the hut after a ten-year break. A bakery, its own microbrewery and various wellness facilities were added by 2015.

However, the new operators of the Wiesenbaude found themselves confronted with the problem of reconciling the economic operation of such a large hotel without access to ski slopes with lift operation with the strict nature protection regulations in the core zone of the Giant Mountains National Park . Since 2005, the Czech media have reported disputes between the owners and the Krkonoše National Park Administration KRNAP . The conservationists accused the site operators of disregarding the applicable nature conservation rules (destruction of nature by off-road snowmobile traffic, unauthorized concerts) and twice fined 250,000 and 100,000 crowns, respectively; the building owners felt harassed.

From 2012, the owners of the meadow hut managed another large hut on the Giant Mountains ridge : this year AEZZ signed a 20-year lease with the new owner of Labská bouda .

In 2014, the mountain rescue service gave up its branch in Luční bouda, which was operated from 1974 to 1994 and then again from 2004, the only rescue station on the Giant Mountains permanently manned even in winter. The reason was a rent increase on the part of the AEZZ .

The lawyer Klára Sovová, co-owner of the meadow cottage, ran in January 2018 in the by-elections for the seat of the Trutnov region in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic .

tourism

The current appearance of the building is essentially the result of the reconstruction, which was completed in 1940 after the fire in October 1938. The four-storey building complex with a hotel and business wing serves as hiking accommodation and a supply station for tourists. The restaurant seats 200 guests, and there is room for 150 guests in rooms and sleeping bag accommodations.

The Wiesenbaude has been running a microbrewery called Paroháč ( something like "the horned") since 2012 . With water from the source of the White Elbe, which rises on the premises of the Baude, wheat beer, semi-dark beer, black beer and ginger beer are brewed here, which are only served in the own restaurant and in the Labská Bouda.

An upside-down red triangle with a horizontal bar above it

The upside-down red triangle shown on the left with a horizontal bar above it is a so-called " silent sign " ( Němé značky in Czech ), with which the poles of the winter marking to Luční bouda are marked.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kateřina Vítková: Příběh Luční boudy: od pastoušky přes sídlo nacistů po unikátní pivovar (History of the meadow hut: From the shepherd's hut to the Nazis to the unique brewery). www.idnes.cz, July 20, 2014, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Martin Bartoš: Historie krkonošských bud (History of the Giant Mountains) . Správa KRNAP, Vrchlabi 2016, ISBN 978-80-7535-029-9 ( [1] [PDF]).
  3. ↑ V. Maiwald: History of botany in Bohemia . Carl Fromme publishing house, Vienna and Leipzig 1904 ( [2] [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Walter Hofmann, With grave pen and pen , Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1948, page 542 ff.
  5. ↑ a b Tomáš Kučera: Unikátní film z roku 1938 ukazuje stavbu Luční boudy, byla jako mravenište (A unique film from 1938 shows the construction of the Luční Bouda, it was like being on an anthill). www.idnes.cz, July 13, 2015, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  6. ↑ Luční bouda škodí přírodě (meadow hut harms nature). www.idnes.cz, August 31, 2001, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  7. ↑ Co bude s Luční boudou? (What will become of the meadow hut?). www.idnes.cz, January 8, 2002, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  8. ↑ Když bouda zvládne splašky, možná přežije (If the hut copes with its sewage problem, it can survive). www.idnes.cz, October 30, 2002, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  9. ↑ Luční bouda bude mít brzy nového majitele (Luční bouda will soon have a new owner). www.idnes.cz, August 16, 2003, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  10. ↑ Právo: Luční bouda dostala dotaci na čističku (Luční bouda has received a grant for a sewage treatment plant). www.idnes.cz, December 15, 2004, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  11. ↑ Daniela Honigmann: Bierbad on the crest. www.pragerzeitung.cz, January 14, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Na Luční se Boude Opet Konal koncert skupiny MIG 21, ochranáři se zlobí (in Luční was again a concert of MIG 21 instead, conservationists are angry). ct24.ceskatelevize.cz, October 8, 2006, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  13. ↑ Ochranáři chtějí koupit a zbourat Labskou Boudu (environmentalists want to buy the Elbbaude and tear). www.idnes.cz, October 31, 2007, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  14. ↑ a b ECOLOGY: Šikana na hřebenech Krkonoš (Chicane on the ridges of the Giant Mountains). Interview with building owners Klára Sovová and Jiří Chvojka. neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz, April 10, 2008, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  15. ↑ Soud potvrdil pokutu 100,000 korun per Luční boudu za koncert Mig 21 (court confirms a fine of 100,000 CZK for Luční bouda for the Mig 21 concert). www.novinky.cz, December 3, 2012, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  16. ↑ Ondřej Stratilík: Prodáno monster. Labskou boudu koupila firma se sídlem na Kypru (The monster has been sold. A company based in Cyprus has bought the Elbbaude.). www.lidovky.cz, November 5, 2012, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  17. ↑ Horská služba opouští Luční boudu, jedinou stanici na hřebenu Krkonoš (The mountain rescue service leaves Luční bouda, the only station on the Giant Mountains ridge). www.lidovky.cz, May 3, 2014, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  18. ↑ Už mám dost hloupých politiků a špatných zákonů, říká Klára Sovová (There are enough stupid politicians and bad laws, says Klára Sovová). www.kralovedvorsko.cz, December 19, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  19. ↑ Accommodation. Homepage of the Luční bouda. www.lucnibouda.cz, accessed on September 30, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Luční bouda v Krkonoších uvaří vlastní pivo - Paroháče (The meadow hut in the Giant Mountains brews its own beer - Parohač). www.lidovky.cz, August 9, 2012, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  21. ↑ brewery. Homepage of the Luční bouda. www.lucnibouda.cz, accessed on September 30, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Luční bouda  - collection of images

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 3.9 ″  N , 15 ° 41 ′ 48.9 ″  E