Svojšice: Hotels and Accommodation

Svojšice Château is a Baroque-Classical building protected as a cultural monument. The château includes a park and a garden.

Culture

The Church of St Wenceslas in Svojšice has Gothic origins documented in writing since 1352. Services are held in the church on Saturdays at 14:00; it is open from 13:30.

The Chapel of St Wenceslas in Svojšice is a Baroque niche chapel dating from 1773. The statue of Saint John of Nepomuk, a Baroque work from 1714, is also part of the historic villagescape and is one of the oldest statues of this saint in the Kolín region.

The early Baroque statue of Saint Wenceslas on a pillar in Svojšice dates from 1694. On 23 November 1987, it was entered under number 35450/2–3460 in the Central Register of Immovable Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic.

The painting “Apoteózy sv. Václava” from 1773 by Václav Prokop Kramolín was originally located on the main altar of the church in Svojšice and is now part of the collections of the Regional Museum in Kolín.

Nature

Svojšický rybník is one of the most significant landscape features of the municipality of Svojšice. At Svojšický rybník on the Voděradský potok, four branches of the local ecological stability system meet; a local biocentre is located there.

The Svojšice Oak is protected for its age and importance as a landscape feature. It is difficult to access; no path leads to it.

Transport

There are bus connections from Svojšice to Kouřim, Kolín and Plaňany.

Nearby places: Radovesnice Ii, Libodřice, Kořenice, Libenice, Přišimasy, Český Brod, Masojedy, Poříčany.

To the higher-level travel overview: Kolín District.