Kolomuty: Klenice, Cycling Routes and Local History

Kolomuty between the Klenice, the Village Green and Ancient History

The Klenice and its floodplain define Kolomuty as a landscape-shaping feature and serve landscape-forming, ecological-stabilisation and recreational functions. In the southern part of the municipality, the wooded Chlum ridge forms an important recreational landscape setting for the municipality's residents. For visitors, this means that Kolomuty can be experienced not only through its centre but also through the interplay of the watercourse, floodplain and wooded ridge.

Kolomuty railway stop is approximately a 600 m walk from the town centre. It is located around 50 m beyond the municipal boundary, in the territory of the neighbouring municipality of Židněves. When choosing a location, both the distance to the centre and the stop's location outside the municipality are therefore relevant for orientation.

Cycle route 8148 runs through Kolomuty and follows the Klenice. Cycle route 8155 runs through Kolomuty between Bakov nad Jizerou and Kosořice and connects to the Jizera Greenway in Bakov nad Jizerou. This means that two different spatial connections meet in the village: Route 8148 follows the Klenice, while Route 8155 connects Kolomuty with Bakov nad Jizerou and Kosořice. In addition, a combined cycle and pedestrian path is planned between Kolomuty and Plazy along road III/27515. It is intended to become part of the cycleway network in the east of the Mladá Boleslav agglomeration and will be marked with signs C9a/b. For planning purposes, existing routes and a planned addition to the cycleway network are therefore clearly distinguished from one another.

The historic village green provides the main landmarks in the village centre. A statue of Saint Joseph stands at its centre. On the western side is a masonry chapel with a post-and-beam bell tower. The site of the former Kolomuty fortress and the village centre in Kolomuty are registered as an archaeological site. At the site of the former fortress, a roughly 2 m high elevation with a 5 × 3 m barrel-vaulted cellar has been preserved. The village centre thus combines visible structures with traces of the former settlement and its fortifications.

The finds extend far beyond the Middle Ages. Stone tools from the Neolithic period have been found in Kolomuty, including flat axes and adzes approximately 7,000 years old. A vessel from the Roman period, dating from 400–0 BC and found in Kolomuty, is housed in the archaeological collection of the Muzeum Mladoboleslavska. In 1923, a cemetery of the Urnfield culture from the Late Bronze Age was accidentally discovered while ploughing; it is associated with the Lusatian and Silesian-Platěnice cultures and is approximately 3,000 years old. A Bell Beaker-type vessel from the same area suggests that new ethnic groups from Western Europe settled there around 4,000 years ago. The chronological span therefore runs from the approximately 7,000-year-old stone tools through Bronze Age finds to a vessel dating from 400–0 BC.

In 1311, Jan z Kolomut is recorded as the first member of the local noble family. Kolomuty therefore brings together a preserved landscape, visible village structures and archaeological traces from different periods. Those exploring the village will consequently find, within a compact thematic area, connections with nature, village history and evidence of settlement dating far back into the past.

Other places for your research include Řitonice, Sovínky, Mukařov U Jiviny, Bradlec, Rabakov, Čachovice and Loukovec.

For the broader travel overview: Mladá Boleslav District.