Lusen ( cs, Luzný) is a mountain in
Bavaria
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(
Germany
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) and in the
Plzeň Region
Plzeň Region ( cs, Plzeňský kraj; german: Pilsner Region) is an administrative unit (''kraj'') in the western part of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is named after its capital Plzeň (English, german: Pilsen). In terms of area, Plzeň R ...
of (
Czech Republic
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) with a peak of 1373 metres. It is the sixth-highest mountain in the
Bavarian Forest National Park
The Bavarian Forest National Park (german: Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald) is a national park in the Eastern Bavarian Forest immediately on Germany's border with the Czech Republic. It was founded on 7 October 1970 as the first national park ...
/
Bohemian Forest
The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as Šumava () and in German as Böhmerwald, is a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from Plzeň Region and South Bohemia in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria ...
, behind the
Großer Rachel
The Großer Rachel or Great Rachel is a mountain, ; it is the second highest summit in the Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest after the Großer Arber and the highest mountain in the Bavarian Forest National Park. Together with the Kleiner Rach ...
,
Kleiner Rachel,
Kleiner Arber
The Kleiner Arber, sometimes also the Little Arber, in the Bavarian Forest is a mountain, , and the highest peak in the Bavarian province of Upper Palatinate. The border with Lower Bavaria runs over its summit and that of the Großer or Great A ...
,
Plattenhausenriegel and
Großer Arber
The Großer Arber (); cs, Velký Javor, "Great Maple") or Great Arber,e.g. Mauser, Wolfram and Monika Prasch (eds). ''Regional Assessment of Global Change Impacts: The Project GLOWA-Danube''. Heidelberg: Springer, 2006. p. 94. is the highest pea ...
. Its peak is about south of the
Czech Republic–Germany border. Streams forming on the north side become tributaries of the
Vydra.
The Lusen is popular for hiking in summer and winter. There is a winter trail which is usually cleared of snow. However, the Bohemian wind blows rather strongly and often covers everything in ice
panorama shot of the summit
The winter trail is also ideal for sledging.
Mountains of Bavaria
Bohemian Forest
Mountains of the Bavarian Forest
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