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5: CASE STUDY 2: THE CZECH/AUSTRIAN BORDER<br />
Ref.<br />
No.<br />
Description Comment Figure<br />
1 Šafov border guard<br />
station<br />
Part of the 3.rPS Znojemská brigade.<br />
Still holds part of its original fencing.<br />
Buildings in varying degree of decay.<br />
76<br />
2 Remains of gate Formerly located across former access<br />
road.<br />
3 Former road to Felling<br />
(Austria)<br />
4 Hajenka border guard<br />
station, officially<br />
referred to as 4bPS.<br />
5 Electricity transformer<br />
along the former fence<br />
line.<br />
6 Storage facility built<br />
into the ground.<br />
This former road to Austria was cut off<br />
by the Iron Curtain after World War II<br />
and could not be crossed.<br />
Now used by the park administration.<br />
Still fenced off with original border<br />
fencing. Buildings in varying degree of<br />
decay.<br />
No longer connected to anything.<br />
Storage facility of unknown origin.<br />
Likely to pre-date WWII.<br />
75, 79, 80<br />
7 Felicia’s Well Built in honour of Countess Felicia in<br />
1806. Used by border guards for target<br />
practice and was much deteriorated<br />
when it was restored in 2001.<br />
61<br />
8 Hunting Lodge Built in the 19 th century. Refurbished<br />
in the early 21 st century.<br />
9 Vranov Castle Castle built in 1100 and since<br />
refurbished and rebuilt during<br />
different periods. Currently functions<br />
as a museum.<br />
10 Newly fenced in area Two recent wooden fences have been<br />
raised along the lines of the former<br />
65<br />
183