Bílý Kámen: Hotels and Accommodations
Bílý Kámen combines a freestanding chapel with restored interior paintings, traces of historical mining, and legally protected landscape features.
Culture
The freestanding Chapel of St. Peter and Paul dates from the 18th century and is considered a symbol and landmark of Bílý Kámen. It has a square floor plan, a hipped roof, and a small four-sided bell tower. During the restoration phase completed in 2023, the original, richly decorated interior paintings were uncovered, fixed, fully retouched, and reconstructed in their original form.
The approximately rectangular memorial stone in front of the village chapel has a smoothed front side with an engraved decorative frame. The memorial stone standing in front of the eastern façade of the Chapel of St. Peter and Paul bears the year 1754; this probably refers to the surveying of the newly founded village.
A medieval reconciliation cross with bevelled beam edges stands by the roadside between Bílý Kámen and Vyskytná, east of Bílý Kámen on the road to Jihlava. An engraved crossbow-bolt relief is affixed to both its front and rear sides.
History
The historic Humpolecká cesta between Humpolec and Jihlava ran through Bílý Kámen. In the forest section between Větrný Jeníkov and Bílý Kámen, earth remains of older roads have been preserved in the form of hollow ways and groups of hollow ways; they may be connected with historical mining.
The Bílý Kámen mining site represents an initial mining phase dating approximately to the second half of the 13th century, involving so-called mining “to daylight.” A 225-metre-long ore vein was followed there with a single row of shafts. Preserved are 27 shafts or mining pits with a diameter of approximately 10 metres and a depth of up to 5 metres.
Routes
Cycle Route 5215 passes through Bílý Kámen and leads towards Smrčná and Rantířov. The Hornická naučná stezka in Jihlava includes 13 information panels and leads, among other places, to the Bílý Kámen locality.
Road III/0021 leads to Bílý Kámen and joins Road II/523 immediately beyond the built-up area; this road connects Jihlava with Humpolec. ICOM bus services connect Bílý Kámen with Jihlava, Humpolec, Žďár nad Sázavou, Úsobí, and Dudín; the bus stop is located approximately 700 metres from the village centre on Road II/523.
Nature
In Bílý Kámen, preserved floodplains of flowing waters are legally protected as significant landscape features. The Bílý Kámen area also contains sites of specially protected plant and animal species.
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