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Ruins of the Old School – Former Grafenried Cemetery loop from Lučina

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Waldmünchen

Ruins of the Old School – Former Grafenried Cemetery loop from Lučina

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Ruins of the Old School – Former Grafenried Cemetery loop from Lučina

02:19

8.13km

180m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 9, 2026

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34 m

Untergrafenried hiking border crossing

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From the Untergrafenried border crossing, historic paths lead directly into the former, abandoned Czech village of Grafenried (Lučina). These are cross-border tours with the character of witnessing history.

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Entrance to the abandoned village Lucina - Grafenried

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A sign with the warning "Please do not leave the signposted paths!" marks the entrance to the sunken village of Grafenried (Lučina). Only a few ruins have survived. Archaeological excavations still take place occasionally.

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Ruins of the Former Village Inn

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The stately property was once part of the castle's economy as a manor inn. Later, it also served as accommodation for the workers of the nearby brewery. In 1946, Josef Zangl and his wife Elsa lived in this house with their sons Heinrich and Horst, as well as Elsa's unmarried sister Barbara and her widowed mother Rosalia. The house was not demolished after the expulsion, but was used by Czechoslovak border guards as accommodation with a kitchen and dining room until the border troops' headquarters were relocated to Wassersuppen (Nemanice) in 1964.

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Ruins of the Old School

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From 1874, several rooms of the former castle (presumably built around 1580 by Georg Pelkhofer von Mosweng) were used as a three-class elementary school by Grafenried. These are the remains of the once stately building, which also housed the municipal office and a savings and loan association. In addition, there were four apartments for the teachers' families.

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Grafenried / Lučina – Abandoned Village Ruins

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The former Grafenried (Czech: Lučina) stood on a small hill near the German border (today the Untergrafenried border crossing) west of Nemanice. Grafenried also included the villages of Anger (Upor), Seeg (Pila), and Haselbach (Liskova). Around 800 people lived there. After the end of the Second World War, the German population was expelled from the border area, and the village, with all its buildings, was gradually razed. The Grafenried church of St. George still stood until the 1970s. Although it had the status of a monument, it was blown up and demolished. On the initiative of a former German resident of the community and some historians on the Czech side, the remains of the church were partially excavated and renovated in 2011. The search for traces was extended to the entire lost village and its districts.

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Place of Reconciliation Lucina–Grafenried

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The atrocities of the past are forgiven. Today, Czechs and Germans, as depicted on the poster at the "Place of Reconciliation", shake hands over the ruins of the lost villages. Together, they explore their history and discover how closely the fates of Bohemia and Germans were intertwined over many centuries.

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Former Grafenried Cemetery

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A place of memories of the past. Cold war, then many places on the Czech border were simply razed to the ground.

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3.09 km

Ruins of Seeg (Pila) Village

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The also disappeared village of Seeg (Czech: Pila), which belonged to Grafenried, was located three kilometers west of Wassersuppen (Nemanice) on the road from Mauthaus to Grafenried. The first mentions of Seeg date back to 1613. The village was built on a stream that was used to operate a mill, a sawmill, and a glassworks. In 1749, there were three mills and a sawmill in the village. In addition, there was also a carpenter and a glass cutter. In 1839, the village consisted of 26 houses with 232 inhabitants.

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Way Types & Surfaces

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5.48 km

2.19 km

432 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

3.45 km

2.22 km

1.54 km

909 m

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Highest point (650 m)

Lowest point (510 m)

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Wednesday 26 August

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August 12, 2023,🥾🌲🪵🌞🍄🇨🇿Grenzsteigrunde über Lucina, Upor, ehem. Glashütte Seeg🌞🪵🌲🌿🥾

A wonderful, relaxed morning tour over the Grenzsteig Höll to the Dirrmal, so the mountain bike ban until September is more bearable😏. Nice weather and absolute peace, the mushrooms are now running across your path too 😋

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April 30, 2023,Zum verschwundenen Dorf Grafenried/Lucina

Along the border strip, the path leads to Grafenried/Lucina on the Czech side of the border. Here remains of the buildings as well as tools and everyday objects of the former villagers can be examined. In addition, numerous information boards with pictures provide an insight into village life in the glass-making town, which fell victim to the Iron Curtain after …

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May 26, 2022,Grenzerfahrungen - Grafenried und Schwarzachtal

Today we went on a short tour to our neighbors.
From Untergranfenried we went past the vanished villages of Grafenried and Seeg into the Schwarzach valley near Nemanice.
The Schwarzach has its source a few kilometers further north at the Lysa Hora (German: Lissaberg), over which the main European watershed also runs. The Rabuza rises just a short distance from …

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Ruins of the Old School – Former Grafenried Cemetery loop from Lučina

Untergrafenried hiking border crossing

Entrance to the abandoned village Lucina - Grafenried

Ruins of the Former Village Inn

Ruins of the Old School

Grafenried / Lučina – Abandoned Village Ruins

Place of Reconciliation Lucina–Grafenried

Former Grafenried Cemetery

Ruins of Seeg (Pila) Village

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