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Železná Ruda is located about 29 km (18 mi) south of Klatovy and 66 km (41 mi) south of Plzeň, on the border with Germany. It lies in a wild mountainous terrain of the Bohemian Forest . The town is surrounded with thick coniferous woods.
It forms the junction between the Bavarian Forest railway from Plattling to Bayerisch Eisenstein, which was started in 1874 by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company (or Bavarian Ostbahn) and completed by the Royal Bavarian State Railways, and the Pilsen–Markt Eisenstein (today: Plzeň-Železná Ruda) railway built by the Pilsen–Priesen ...
It is one of a trio of connected places in the area. The other two are Železná Ruda (known in German as Böhmisch Eisenstein or Markt Eisenstein) and Špičák (Dorf Eisenstein), both in the Czech Republic. Železná Ruda lies 2 kilometres northeast from Bayerisch Eisenstein. The town's railway station is split by the border.
The station building, whose construction had been agreed by the two railway companies on 17 May 1877, was not completed until 1878. The building at Bayerisch Eisenstein/Železná Ruda-Alžbětín was build directly on the border line and serves for both Czech and Bavarian companies.
Černé jezero (German: Schwarzer See, meaning "Black Lake") in the Bohemian Forest is the largest and deepest natural lake in the Czech Republic. [4]This triangular lake surrounded with spruce forest is located about 6 km northwest of Železná Ruda under a 300-metre-high cliff on Jezerní hora (1,343 m). [2]
Hojsova Stráž (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɦojsova ˈstraːʃ]; German: Eisenstraß) is a village in the Bohemian Forest in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.It is administratively a part of Železná Ruda.
The source of its main headstream, the Großer Regen ('Great Regen'), is located in the Bohemian Forest on the southern slopes of Mt. Pancíř at 1,060 m (3,480 ft) above sea level, in the territory of Železná Ruda in the Czech Republic.
The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as Šumava (pronounced ⓘ) and in German as Böhmerwald, is a low mountain range in Central Europe.Geographically, the mountains extend from Plzeň Region and the South Bohemian Region in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria in Germany, and form the highest truncated uplands of the Bohemian Massif, up to 50 km wide.