Polletitz: Hotels and Accommodations

Polletitz can be viewed from three perspectives: routes, landscape, and history.

Booking a hotel in Polletitz can be treated as a separate step in your travel planning alongside information about the destination.

Routes and Orientation

Cycle Route 1254 runs from the Kájovská access road via Maniny to St. Nicholas Church in Boletice. The route to Knížecí Stolec in the Boletice Military District is publicly accessible on weekends and public holidays. Visitors must remain on the marked route, as military exercises take place in the area.

The circular route to Knížecí Stolec is 14 km long, climbs more than 400 metres in elevation, is publicly accessible on weekends and public holidays, and may only be walked on the marked route because the area is used for military purposes. The Kájovsko–Boleticko circular route, including the detours to Červený Dvůr Castle and St. Nicholas Church in Boletice, is approximately 20 km long and runs exclusively along existing marked cycle paths. In and around the Boletice Military District, 75.5 km of marked hiking trails and 95 km of cycle paths are designated.

Culture

In the now-vanished municipality of Boletice, instruction had been provided since at least 1722 in a building that belonged to an extensive rectory complex near St. Nicholas Church. As of 2021, the former school in Boletice still had remains of the surrounding walls with parts of the façade or plaster, as well as preserved wooden window frames.

St. Nicholas Church in Boletice was originally a Romanesque building from the second half of the 12th century and has been listed as a national cultural monument since 3 May 1958. It is considered the oldest sacred monument in South Bohemia. Partially uncovered medieval wall paintings have been preserved in the chancel.

The interior of the church is normally closed; visits are only possible by prior arrangement. The church is also used for cultural and social events as well as weddings.

History

Raziberk is home to a Hallstatt-period hilltop settlement dating from the Early Iron Age, approximately between 750 and 450 BC. The Raziberk hilltop settlement is fortified in an irregular circular shape and features two parallel ring-shaped ramparts as well as outer ditches.

In the 13th century, Boletice was the centre of an extensive royal Rychta and an important centre on the old route of the Linecká stezka. Following the reduction of the military district, the former settlement of Boletice became accessible in early 2016.

Landscape

Near Boletice lies Knížecí Stolec, formerly also known as Liščí louka, a 1,236 m-high mountain in the South Bohemian part of the Bohemian Forest. It is the highest mountain in the Želnavská hornatina and, after Smrčina, the second-highest mountain in the Český Krumlov District. An 8 m-high wooden observation tower was ceremonially opened at its summit on 11 July 2012.

The Boletice Military District located near Boletice is protected under Natura 2000; this includes the European protected areas of Boletice and Polná, as well as the Boletice Special Protection Area.

Further Destinations

Further destinations: Deutsch Beneschau, Neudorf B. Berlau, Zwickau, Chunzen, Podesdorf, Unterbreitenstein, Tritesch, Hohenfurth.

To the higher-level travel overview: Český Krumlov District.