Vosecká bouda, Mountain lodge in Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Czech Republic

Vosecka Bouda is a mountain lodge at 1260 meters elevation in the western section of the Krkonose mountains. It provides overnight rooms, dining facilities, and serves as a gathering point for hikers and visitors exploring the surrounding peaks.

A hayloft stood here by 1710; a 1743 map records the hut as Františkánská bouda after a monk who lodged there. Václav Kraus rebuilt it in 1790 as Nová česká bouda, and Jan Kraus enlarged it in 1830. From 1896 it served tourists, and in 1901 Count Jan Harrach had a path built from Labská bouda.

The name Vosecká bouda comes from the meadow on which it stands; German sources also call it Endlerbaude after Franz Endler, its early 20th-century tenant. The restaurant now runs self-service and cooks Czech dishes, and the building keeps its post-war shape.

The lodge is open year-round, but the Polish source gives a June-to-early-November season, so check before a winter visit. It has no connection to the power grid: a generator supplies electricity, and lighting for guests is switched off after 22:00. The yellow trail from Tvarožník takes about 10 minutes.

During a roof repair, workers found a German note from 1943 left by roofers who wrote that after finishing in cold November weather they faced transfer to the Eastern Front; a Leipzig academic later traced one signatory, who survived the war and settled in West Germany. A second slip from October 1951 jokes about a comrade's slalom skills and bruised spruces.