Dolní Světlá

This picture postcard from the 30s of the 20th century shows the houses in the lower part of the village under the former schoolhouse. In the background there is the peak of the Luž hill.
On this picture postcard from the years before World War Two the central part of the village with thew Luž hill in the background is shown. On the extreme right side the former hotel „Adler“ and more to the left of it the former hotel „Schäfer“ are seen.
This postcard from the years after World War Two shows the houses standing on the crossroad as seen from the slope under the Plešivec hill. On the lower left side there is the former hotel Schäfer behind of which the road climbs to Horní Světlá. On its right side projects the great house of the hotel Adler and on the horizon behind it there is the Luž hill.
On this postcard we see the former hotel Schäfer, which stoods on the branch road climbing between fields to Horní Světlá.
On this picture postcard the upper part of the village as seen from the southeast is shown. The prominent house to the right from the centre is the former hotel Adler, on the left side protrude the rocks of the Krkavčí kameny from the woods.
This picture postcard shows the upper part of the village with the road leading to the border crossing Wache to Waltersdorf. The picture is dominatet by the hill Luž, under which at the edge of the wood the former boarding-house Brazilka is faintly visible.
On this picture postcard from the middle of the 30s of the 20th century the houses of the upper part of the village are shown. Near the centre there is the two-storeyed house of the former custom-house and on its left side the small tower of the local chapel. All the houses behind of it in the end of the fifties had been destroyed. On the left side the rock-tower Falkenstein and the roof of the former restaurant „Rabenstein“ on the twin rock Krkavčí kameny protrude from the wood.
This picture postcard shows the central part of the village with the former school building (right) and Heinrich Warzel's grocery (centre).
This phototypy picture postcard from the first half of the 20th century shows the then hotel Schäfer the outer appearance of which since then underwent almost no change. At the horizon there is the summit of the Luž mountain.
On this historic winter postcard from 1947 there is the former hotel Schäfer which stood on the branch road to Horní Světlá. In the background on the left the gable of the former hotel Adler is stricking out.
This picture postcard shows the interior of the former hotel Schäfer.
On this picture postcard the former Hotel Adler standing near the road branch to Horní Světlá is shownn. The building of the hotel and the smaller neighbouring residential house after World War Two went to wreck and in the 50s had been demolished, the neglected farm building in the background fell down only in the winter 2005.
This picture postcard shows the former hotel „Deutsches Haus“ in its former appearance before its enlargement.
On this picture postcard we see the hotel „Deutsches Haus“ already with its new extension. To the present day this building stands in the upper part of the village and serves as boarding house.
This picture postcard shows the interior of the former hotel „Deutsches Haus“.
On this picture postcard in the cutout under the overall view of the village we see the former restaurant „Zum Kaiser von Österreich“ (Emperor of Austria), which stood on its northern end. In the 30s it was called „Lindenhof“, after 1945 some time it was used as military dormitory and in the 50s along with the other houses standing in the border zone it was demolished.