Nová Huť, Mountain hermitage in Svor, Czech Republic.
Nová Huť is a hamlet of the municipality of Svor in the Liberec Region, sitting on a grassy saddle at 552 m between Stožec and Velký Buk in the Lužické Mountains, about 1 km south of Stožecké sedlo on road I/9. It consists of a former inn, a gamekeeper's lodge and farm buildings; the railway stop Nová Huť v Lužických horách lies 400 m south.
The glassworks was founded in 1750 by Johann Christoph Müller after the Falkenau hut closed. Anton Kittel bought it in 1799 and opened the inn Antonienhöhe in 1805; the glassworks shut down in 1819 and was demolished between 1877 and 1881. A fire destroyed the wooden inn in 1896, after which brick buildings were erected.
The name Antonihöhe, used for the settlement and its inn from 1805, came from owner Anton Kittel; the glassworks itself was called Antonienhütte after him. The inn that Kittel opened on the new imperial road served travellers and later became the starting point for walks to the surrounding peaks. Since 2002 a restaurant, U trempa, has operated here again with interruptions.
Nová Huť lies on the I/9 road about 1 km south of the Stožecké sedlo saddle, at 552 m. The railway stop Nová Huť v Lužických horách is 400 m from the buildings. Two marked trails pass through: the blue E10 long-distance route and a green trail from Cvikov; cycle route 3007 also runs here.
The railway halt Nová Huť v Lužických horách, 400 metres from the settlement, opened with the Bakov nad Jizerou–Jedlová line in January 1869; its wooden shelter dates from 1914. The stop was renamed several times, from Neuhütte-Lichtenwalde to Nová Huť-Světlá, Jedlová zastávka in 1961 and its present name at the end of 2014.
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