Rechle in Lenora.

A visit to Lenora and its most famous monument - Rechle - was part of the Šumava bike trips.
A covered wooden footbridge, the so-called rechle, has been connecting the banks of the Teplá Vltava since 1870. The bridge was used to hold and gradually release wooden logs that were shipped to the paper mills in Vétřní. Inside the bridge, there are holes in the floor into which rods were lowered when the water level was low , which held firewood until…