Lobendava
Lobendava is a village and municipality in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of, and has a population of 334.
Lobendava lies in the Lusatian Highlands, approximately north of Děčín, north-east of Ústí nad Labem, and north of Prague. Located in the Šluknov Hook area close to the border with Neustadt in Sachsen in Germany, it is the state's northernmost municipality since the demolition of nearby Fukov in 1960.
The Bohemian village on the historic Imperial route from Prague to Dresden was first mentioned in a 1449 deed. Since the adjacent region of the Margraviate of Meissen had merged into the Electorate of Saxony, it was the site of a road border crossing, which was finally closed in 1945. The Hohwald forest north of the Severní hamlet comprises the northernmost point of the Czech Republic at. From 1804 it was also the northernmost point of the Austrian Empire, stretching down to the Prevlaka peninsula in the south.
