Abertham: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Abertham is a mountain town in the Ore Mountains. The wooded peaks of the Ore Mountains rise around Abertamy, while the landscape is crisscrossed by numerous hiking, cycling and cross-country skiing trails.

Culture

The Abertamy Museum documents the craft traditions of glove-making and the town’s mining past. Its exhibition comprises around 300 exhibits on the history of leather-glove production, as well as a multimedia area featuring a time machine. The museum also includes an exhibition on mining history with minerals originating mainly from the Jáchymov region.

Abertamy was founded as a mining settlement because of its silver and tin deposits and was later elevated to a royal mining town. The Church of the “Čtrnácti sv. pomocníků” was built in 1534 by the town of Jáchymov on the village square of the newly founded mining settlement and was remodelled in the Baroque style between 1735 and 1738. Its layout comprises a partially recessed prismatic tower, a single-nave body and a pentagonal chancel.

Vila Felicitas is a registered immovable cultural monument and belongs to the town of Abertamy. The exceptionally well-preserved building features numerous original elements. Důl Mauritius is also a national cultural monument and is considered the largest tin mine in the Czech Ore Mountains. The Kryštof Gallery located inside it is open to the public from May to September.

Trails

Náměstí Míru, near the information centre, is the starting point for the three educational trails. The Plešivec Educational Trail is 8 km long, leads through wooded terrain to Plešivec at an elevation of 1,028 m, and then returns to Abertamy through the valley of the Bystřice stream.

The Hřebečná Educational Trail begins about 800 m from the square in Abertamy, along a green-marked hiking route towards Plešivec. It is 3.8 km long and has an 11 km extension around Bludná. At the Lom Hřebečná stop, an impressive mountain ridge of volcanic rock with columnar jointing, as well as protected plant and animal communities, are described.

The “17 abertamųských zastavení” Educational Trail is 7 km long and follows in the footsteps of Alexander Wüst, a photographer from Abertamy and operator of a photography school.

Sports

Local cycling route No. 2004 runs from Abertamy to Český Mlýn. It is 14 km long and classified as moderately difficult. There are also routes for cycling excursions around Abertamy. In winter, groomed cross-country ski trails are available in the surrounding area; downhill skiing is possible at the Plešivec Ski Area.

Surroundings

The Abertamy–Boží Dar–Horní Blatná Mining Landscape includes Abertamy, including the mining settlement of Hřebečná. The mining landscape in the wider area around Abertamy is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

For a deeper exploration of mining history, the navigation leads to the mining settlement of Hřebečná.

For the main travel overview: Karlovy Vary Region.

More destinations

More places at the same destination:

Grasengrün, Schönthal, Merkelsgrün, Münchhof, Breitenbach, Karlovy Vary, Klein-Werscheditz.