Above Bílý Potok rises Hejnický vrch (698 m) with the so-called Hajní kostel, the Woodland Church. According to an old legend, pagan charcoal-burners and woodcutters, then the only people able to penetrate the inaccessible border forest, had their shrine on this rock. The Woodland Church supposedly opens once a year, revealing treasures within the rock.
Location and map
- Place
- Hejnice
- Municipality / starting point
- Hejnice
- District / region
- Liberec
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 10 km SE of Frýdlantu
Above Bílý Potok rises Hejnický vrch (698 m) with the so-called Hajní kostel, the Woodland Church. According to an old legend, pagan charcoal-burners and woodcutters, then the only people able to penetrate the inaccessible border forest, had their shrine on this rock. The Woodland Church supposedly opens once a year, revealing treasures within the rock.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 111
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.