Krompach

This picture postcard shows Krompach as seen from the southern peak of the Hvozd (Hochwald) hill. In the background there is the acute cone of the Luž hill and on its left side the prolongated crest of the Pěnkavčí vrch hill.
On this picture postcard we see the centre of the village with the church dedicated to the Fourteen Saint Helpers. On the left the road is climbing up the slope to Valy.
This picture postcard shows the central part of Krompach and in the cutout below the now already not existing restaurant „Forsthaus“ (in German: gamekeeper's lodge).
On this picture postcard we see the centre of the village with the former castle (left) and the houses standing in the upper part of the village along of the road leading to the foot of Hvozd (Hochwald) hill.
This picture postcard from the year 1939 shows the centre of Krompach with the prominent area of the former castle. Out of the woods on the hill on the left side projects the restaurant on the Janské kameny hill and in the saddle more to the right of it there ist the former restaurant „Franz-Josefs-Höhe“.
On this picture postcard the upper part of the village with the Hvozd hill in the background ist shown.
This picture postcard shows the houses in the upper part of Krompach village as seen from the northwest. In the background there is the Hvozd hill on the border between Bohemia and Germany.
On this picture postcard from 1930 you see the road leading from Juliovka into the centre of Krompach. Over the houses on the left side protrudes the turret of the church of the Fourteen Saint Helpers, in the background is the summit of the Hvozd-hill with its lookout tower.
On this postcard of Krompach from 1933 is the now extinct restaurat „Stadt Zittau“. It stood, along with a small chapel, immediately at the church before the council building.
This picture postcard shows the former restaurant „Stadt Zittau“ and the church dedicated to the Fourteen Saint Helpers.
On this picture postcard we see the former schoolhouse, the house across the street and the church dedicated to the Fourteen Saint Helpers.
On this postcard there is the till now working inn „Zum Schloss“ (Castle), which after World War II was famous by its dancing parties. In its foundations remainders of the old residence of the family Berka z Dubé had been identified.
This picture postcard shows the restaurant „Zum Schloss“ (=at the castle) from the East.
On this postcard there are the houses at the sheer road leading from the inn „Zum Schloss“ at Krompach to the village of Valy.
This picture postcard shows the same houses as the last picture but seen from the opposite direction from Valy.
This picture postcard shows the same houses as the previous picture but seen from the opposite direction from Valy.
The inn, called „Forsthaus“ (in the background) till the nineteen-fifties stood on the road leading from the centre of the village of Krompach towards the foot of the Hvozd hill. Unlike the inn the small house in the foreground is yet standing.
This postcard from 1911 shows the former restaurant „Forsthaus“ (Gamekeepers lodge) as it appeared in that period. At present this house with its richly decorated front does not exist.
This picture postcard shows the oldest yew-tree standing in the upper part of the Krompach village. Both the house standing on the left side and the hotel „Forsthaus“ in the background no more exist.
This picture postcard presents two of the three noteworthy yew-trees of Krompach. On the left side we see the greatest one the age of which is recently estimated to about 500 years, and on the right the youngest, which, according to the text written on the card, had been planted in 1640. The picture in the centre shows the statue „Ecce homo“ standing not far from the yew-trees.
On that picture postcard on the left side we see the oldest of the yew-trees of Krompach the age of which is estimated to approximately 500 years. The picture in the centre shows the already demolished house of Josef Knobloch with the youngest yew-tree and on the right side there is a picture of the nearby standing skulpture Ecce homo.

On this picture postcard we see the former hotel „Forsthaus“ with its interior.
On this picture postcard we see the oldest of the three noteworthy yew-trees in the upper part of Krompach. Its age (the postcard indicates 2000 years) at present is estimated to approximately 500 years.
.This picture postcard shows the oldest of the yew-trees in Krompach in the upper part of the village
This picture postcard shows the oldest yew-tree in winter.