Slavětínská rozhledna, Observation tower in Radvanice, Czech Republic
Slavětínská rozhledna is a four-storey lookout tower on an unnamed 708 m peak in the Jestřebí Mountains, built in 2014. Its structure combines a central steel column with a spiral staircase and four corner posts of peeled Douglas fir roundwood anchored to reinforced concrete pillars. The viewing platform is reached by the staircase, which has three landings, and the top of the central column carries a wooden sculpture of a sitting hawk.
The tower was completed in 2014 as part of a regional tourism development project in the Jestřebí Mountains led by Lesy České republiky. This initiative aimed to enhance visitor access and infrastructure in the mountainous area.
The wooden hawk on the central column and the sandstone memorial stone with a granite plaque beside the tower were added with the structure in 2014. The lookout is one of several towers built by the state forest enterprise Lesy České republiky; the nearby artillery fortress Poustka was planned but never built.
The tower can only be reached on foot or by mountain bike: a green-marked trail runs 3.6 km south from Petříkovice railway station, another 2.5 km northwest from the Paseky settlement. Cars can drive via Lhota (Bezděkov) to the saddle below infantry blockhouse T-S 44, leaving 0.5 km on the green trail. The spiral staircase has three landings.
The wooden hawk on the central column is carved from Douglas fir, the same peeled roundwood used for the tower's four corner posts and truss. Just below the summit stand light fortifications and trigonometric point 10 Slavětín západ, and the artillery fortress Poustka was once planned nearby.
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