Lynx stone

In the past, wild animals such as wolves and lynxes lived in Bohemian-Saxon Switzerland. However, for centuries they were systematically persecuted and practically exterminated in this area. On the Bohemian-Saxon border in Velké Kozí důl, you can visit a place on your journey where a relief of a lynx and an inscription describing the shooting of a lynx are carved on a sandstone boulder. The royal forester from Hinterhermsdorf, Johan Gottfried Puttrich, shot one of the last local lynxes in these places in 1743. He shot it with a baited crossbow that fired when the lynx touched the bait. Puttrich then had this event carved into a sandstone boulder.

A green-marked path leads to the Lynx stone (Rysí kámen) from Mezní Louka through the now-defunct settlement of Zadní Jetřichovice and continues along the German side towards Zeughaus.