National Nature Reserve The Peatbog of Kladská

Experience with us the beauty of forests around Marianske Lazne. Let enchant yourself by undisturbed nature around Kladská blue pond, which is a part of this national nature reserve. Relax in the romantic hunting lodge built in Swiss style ..

National Nature Reserve The Peatbog of Kladská is a set of upland peat bogs in the surrounding of village Kladská in the center of the Slavkov Forest near Marianske Lazne.
It consists of five separate parts: The Taiga, Paterák, The Bald Spot, The Small Peat-bog and The Forest of Goose. Their total area is 269.59 hectares. The Taiga National Nature Reserve is available to visitors of the nature trail. The Peat bog covers forest growth of pine swamp (with typical plants such as a sundew, a cotton-grass, cranberry, etc.), whose image is mirrored on the surface of Kladská large pond.

Nature Trail Kladská
The trail is continuously open since September 1977, now is newly reconstructed and can be also used by disabled persons. From Marianske Lazne is 9.5 kilometers away (road Marianske Lazne - Kladská), from Kynzvart 5 km. It is accessible either by individual car, by bus from Marianske Lazne, or on foot along marked tourist routes. The trail leads from the former hunting lodge of Prince Schönburg-Waldenburg along a romantic water area.
The total length of the trail is 1.6 km. Walk the nature trail does not require special clothing, and is not physically demanding.

There are 8 information boards on the trail:
1st - Enter information board - Why a protection of the Slavkov Forest?
2nd - History of Kladská village, inhabitants of the water reservoir.
3rd - Past and today of the Slavkov Forest, fauna of the Slavkov Forest.
4th - Mineral springs of the Slavkov Forest - origin, development, relationships.
5th - Rare fauna and flora of the national nature reserve - The Taiga peat bog.
6th - Establishment of moors, transitional bogs, high bogs.
7th - History of medieval tin mining in the forest and technical monument The Long Channel.
8th - Beautiful nature to man - the protection of nature and landscape in the Czech Republic, the basic tasks and missions of protected landscape areas.

In the village Kladská people can now see neighboring acidic lake with one of the sourest river-basin in Europe and the park with the tomb of the founder of the local hunting lodge, with period buildings and arboretum. In Kladská there is preserved hunting lodge of Swiss style and other Alpine timbered buildings. These valuable buildings are now under the care of historical monumets. Just in these buildings there is offered a refreshment.

Thanks to a set of ten ponds, Kladská was destined for a help to the industrial development of the region. At that time there was developed a mining, and because there was not enough local sources of water for cleaning of rocks, there was built so-called The Long Channel in 1531-36.
At that time it was an unique work in extent and method of building. The channel itself is long 24 km, wide 2 meters, and has also remarkable network of canals 30 km long. The Long Channel was preserved to this day, even though it has not served to the purpose for which it was built.