Rybník: Hotels and Accommodation

Rybník is located in the heart of the Český les Protected Landscape Area.

Trails

The blue-marked tourist route from Rybník to Švarcava, just under 4 kilometres long, connects the Švarcava border crossing with Rybník, where it joins the red-marked tourist route. The Baarova cesta is also marked in red: it is 7 kilometres long, with a total distance of 14 kilometres there and back.

From Rybník, a marked trail leads to the most accessible spring of the Radbuza. Following the red marking, the route from Rybník to the spring is approximately 10 kilometres long in total. The trail from the car park behind Závist to the source of the Radbuza is 1.3 kilometres long and well marked. In the vicinity of Rybník, hiking and cycling trails connect directly to comparable trails in the Bavarian part of the Český les.

Nature

The surroundings of Rybník consist predominantly of forests and pastureland. The Radbuza rises in the Český les below Lysá at an altitude of 869 metres above sea level, near Rybník in the Domažlice District.

House No. 17 in Závist stands directly on the European watershed. Water from the roof flows on one side towards the Nemanický potok, the Danube and the Black Sea, and on the other side towards the Radbuza, Berounka, Vltava, Elbe and North Sea.

Culture and History

Starý Herštejn is a castle ruin and an observation tower near Pivoň and Rybník in the Český les. An observation tower was built on Starý Herštejn in 2020.

Near Rybník, the glassmaking Schürer family founded the first historically documented glassworks in the southern Český les. Most of the abandoned villages in the Český les lie along local roads or marked hiking trails. The cemetery in Pleš was respectfully restored by German descendants between 1992 and 1994; during the restoration, the foundations of the cemetery church were uncovered.

Other places: Nemanice, Hvožďany, Díly, Pelechy, Chodov U Domažlic, Pařezov, Ceska Kubice, Mnichov.

To the overview of the wider travel region: Domažlice District.