Lobendava

Lobendava (Lobendau) is a village and municipality (obec) in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 19.54 km2, and has a population of 334 (as at 2 October 2006). Lobendava lies in the Lusatian Highlands, approximately 30 km north of Děčín, 45 km north-east of Ústí nad Labem, and 104 km 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 the present-day Šluknov municipal area) 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 (Hilgersdorf) hamlet comprises the northernmost point of the Czech Republic at 51.05556°N, 14.31611°W. From 1804 it was also the northernmost point of the Austrian Empire, stretching down to the Prevlaka peninsula (in present-day Croatia) in the south.