KRNAP wants to buy and demolish the Labská bouda in the Krkonoš ridges

Vrchlabí (Trutnovsko) - The Administration of the Krkonošsko National Park (KRNAP) wants to buy and subsequently demolish the well-known Labská bouda in the Krkonoš mountains. The current owner is selling the cottage through a real estate agency for 43 million crowns. By purchasing and demolishing the cottage, the Krkonoš mountains would, according to the park's managers, rid themselves of a concrete monster that has remained in the mountains since the communist regime. CTK was informed today by KRNAP spokesman Radek Drahný.
    "The Labská bouda building is located in the heart of the first zone of the national park and completely disrupts the landscape of the mountains. Now is a unique opportunity to remove this concrete monolith," Drahný said. According to him, the park administration has already begun negotiations with the Ministry of the Environment about the possibility of purchasing and demolishing the cottage.
    It would be the ministry or directly the government that would have to finance the purchase and demolition of the cottage, as KRNAP does not have the funds for such a large investment. The price demanded by the real estate agency is considered by the park administration to be inflated. The demolition of the cottage, which is located near the source of the Elbe River at an altitude of 1340 meters above sea level, would probably cost several tens of millions of crowns, Drahný estimated.
    The nine-story Labská bouda was built after six years of construction in 1975 near the site of the original burned-down Labská bouda. During the privatization of the property of the state enterprise Interhotels Krkonoš, it was acquired in 1996 by the transport company Pumr & Ryba, Transport - Spedition from Lázně Bělohrad in the Jičín region.
    The owners of the Bělohrad company, entrepreneurs Martin Pumr and Zbyněk Ryba, have now decided to sell the cottage because they want to focus on the main activity of their business, which is truck transportation. According to an earlier statement by Pumr to CTK, several negotiations have already taken place with potential buyers about the sale of the cottage. In recent years, its owners have gradually invested over 15 million crowns into the renovation of the cottage. The cottage has a capacity of 159 beds and extensive catering facilities.
    The massive concrete structure of the Labská bouda has been evoking negative emotions from the public since its inception in the Krkonoš landscape. In a recent survey by the iDnes server, people named it one of the least successful constructions in the Hradec Králové region.