Restaurant Shepherd's Wall

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At the end of the 19th century, the Shepherd's Wall began to have a new meaning as a destination for walking and trips into the countryside for inhabitants. The first inn was built at the top of the Pastýřská Wall above the local section of the Mountain Association for the Czech Switzerland (Gebirgsverein für die Böhmische Schweiz) in 1892. It was a small wooden log cabin later supplemented with a covered terrace, which was intended only for summer. Access here was initially possible  only from the south side. In 1899 the mountain club built a rock face from the north side of Červený Vrch. At the top of the staircase, the inscription "Felsensteig Rotberg 1899" reminds us of this in the rock to this day. This period includes the gradual construction of forest promenades made of sandstone stones, which extend along the entire length of the Pastýřská Wall up to Dolní Oldřichov.

In 1905 a new brick restaurant with hotel rooms and a 13-meter-high lookout tower (No. 236) was built next to the original wooden inn on the top of Pastýřská stěna. The building  was in the form of a romantic castle ruin with elements of neo-renaissance and  was financed by the town of Podmokly and was carried out by the renowned submarine company Andreas Putz & Wilhelm Weber. The restaurant is owned by the city and rented out of its position. Even before the First World War, a system of covered and uncovered terraces with a music pavilion was built around it, a large area  was used as a dance floor in summer and an ice rink in winter. According to an advertisement from 1913, there were up to 2,000 visitors.