Šerák, Mountain summit in Jeseníky, Czech Republic

Hochschar (Czech: Šerák) is a 1351 m summit in the Hrubý Jeseník range, on the historic border of Moravia and Silesia. Its slopes fall steeply north into the Vražedný potok valley, where the Obří skály rock group rises, and south towards Keprník. The summit lies in dense dwarf pine and is not a viewpoint.

The wooden Chata Jiřího was built here in 1888 by the Mährisch-Schlesischer Sudetengebirgverein on land provided by Cardinal Georg Kopp of Wrocław, after whom it is named. It burned down in 1893, was replaced by a stone shelter in 1894 and enlarged to its present form in 1926.

Chata Jiřího, the stone hut at 1,323 m, is named after Cardinal Georg Kopp of Wrocław, who handed over the land for the first wooden shelter built in 1888 by the Mährisch-Schlesischer Sudetengebirgverein. It burned in 1893, reopened as a stone refuge in 1894 and was enlarged in 1926; Šerák, an 11° pale lager from the Holba brewery in Hanušovice, is on tap.

The summit itself lies in a reserve and has no marked trail; a contour path links the upper cable-car station with Chata Jiřího at 1323 m. The two-section chairlift from Ramzovské sedlo runs year-round, its lower station about 700 m from Ramzová railway stop.

The summit itself lies in a dense stand of dwarf pine and is not a viewpoint; a geodetic point marked 16. on survey maps sits on the grassy top at 1350.78 m. About 70 m south of Chata Jiřího, at roughly 1325 m, stands a stone bell tower.