Pictures from Šumava – Skelná or Glasserwald

The former pub is located by the road from Železná ruda to Hartmanice at the crossroads to Prášil. There used to be a village here at an altitude of 875 meters, of which only one house remained. Over thirty buildings disappeared from the world.
 
At the beginning of the 17th century, there was a glass factory here, where skilled hands helped create the world of glass beads. These were called legs and rosaries were made of them. That's probably why the name Glass or...