Annín: Hotels and Accommodation

The Annín Glassworks was founded in 1796 by Augustin Muller from Vatětice to produce crystal glass and small glass beads known as Pateříky.

Glassmaking

Visitors can tour the Annín Glassworks, where they can see original Czech lead crystal with traditional and modern patterns, the museum, the sales area, and the glassworks itself. They can also choose their own decoration and blow an original glass object themselves.

Culture

The Church of Saint Mauritius in Mouřenec above Annín is one of the oldest churches in Šumava and was built after 1220 in the late Romanesque style. Rare 14th-century wall paintings were discovered in the church in 1993 and subsequently restored. On the north side of the Mouřenec cemetery stands a Baroque ossuary from the 18th century.

The neo-Gothic Schmid Chapel, with the crypt of the Schmid family, stands at the edge of the forest above the Annín Glassworks. Glass products incorporated into its interior are valuable evidence of the history of glassmaking in Annín and elsewhere in Šumava. From the parking lot by the glassworks, the Schmid Chapel can be reached by walking uphill across a meadow or via an unmarked turnoff from the road to Mouřenec.

History

The Annín Museum of Light Fortifications is an atypical bunker on a rock above the main road from Sušice to Kašperské Hory. It explains the reasons for the construction of Czechoslovakia’s pre-war fortifications, the combat system of the fortifications, and their wartime and post-war history.

Nature

The Radešovské skály educational trail, focused on geology and natural history, leads from Annín.

Other places: Nalžovské Hory, Svata Katerina, Hamry Na Šumavě, Strážov, Švihov U Klatov, Břežany, Tužice, Bezděkov U Klatov

To the higher-level travel overview: Klatovy District.