Přírodní rezervace Anenské údolí

Quiet place, we just miss a marked hiking trail

Anenské údolí is a geographical name natural formation in the geomorphological district Štěpánovská stupňovina and also a nature reserve with an area of ​​74.19 ha and a European important locality with an area of ​​39.4 ha in the cadastral area of ​​Skuteč and part of the cadastral area of ​​Hroubovice in the Pardubice region. The subject of protection was semi-natural dry grasslands and facies of shrubs on calcareous substrates (Festuco Brometalia), extensive mowed meadows of lowlands to foothills (Arrhenatherion, Brachypodio-Centaureion nemoralis), mixed ash-alder floodplain forests of temperate and boreal Europe, Alno-Inc , Salicion albae), calcareous beeches, Hercynian oak groves and also protection of the occurrence of the marsh blue butterfly (Maculinea nausithous). The specially protected area is situated on two geomorphological formations, the most important part in a narrow valley with a mild temperature and humid climate around Anenský brook, with a significant hydrogeological locality and a smaller part on the south-facing steep slope (escarpement) of the Štěpánovská stupňa scale slope, where partially exposed rock layers with so-called marl, significantly exposed to heat in sunlight. The altitude of protected areas ranges from 320 m (at the level of the Anenský brook in Hroubovice) to 415 to 420 m on the upper edge of the Štěpánovská stupňoviny slope near Zbožnov. Due to its geological significance, the area was included in the Železná hora National Geopark. The nature reserve and the site of European importance are managed by the Agency for Nature and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic through the Regional Office of Eastern Bohemia. The Anenský stream below Štěpánov forms the interface between geomorphological units, the Svitavy Uplands (with a nature reserve) and the Iron Mountains (the town of Skuteč). Accessible from two tourist routes, road II / 305 (section Skuteč - Štěpánov - Luže) and on local roads from Štěpánov and Zbožnov (part of the town of Skutče). From Štěpánov, a local road leads to the deep Anenské valley to the Karafiát boarding house and to the chapel of St. Anny, where it ends at the signpost of the blue marked tourist route (section Vrbatův Kostelec - Nová Ves u Skutče - Anenské údolí, chapel of St. Anne - Luže). From the center of the town of Skuteč accessible from the road II / 305 below Štěpánov, then an unmarked field road leading along the Anenský stream to the chapel of St. Anny and further through the valley to Hroubovice. In the opposite direction along the retention reservoir below Štěpánov towards the road to. CZ200203