Kostelní Strimelice – Church, History and Trails

Kostelní Střimelice is a place where church art, traces of a former fortress, and distinctive elevations come together. St. Martin’s Church is listed as a protected cultural monument. At the same time, the village occupies a prominent position on the slopes of the 542-metre-high Pecný hill. This combination of local history and landscape gives your travel planning two different directions: you can delve deeper into cultural history or focus on the paths and elevations in the surrounding area.

Church and Local History

St. Martin’s Church contains a Baroque high altar from the first quarter of the 18th century, which was moved here in 1789 from the Na Zderaze Church in Prague, as well as a wooden pulpit dating from 1707. The altar thus connects a specific Prague location with the sacred furnishings in Kostelní Střimelice. The dates on the pulpit and of the relocation help you place the individual pieces in their historical context.

The former fortress is also part of the village’s history: it is first documented in writing in 1359. Its site still forms a distinctive spur of land at an elevation of 450 metres, meaning a projecting part of the terrain. Another historical trace is copper mining near Kostelní Střimelice and Hradové Střimelice, which began in the early 1540s. Kostelní Střimelice was formerly known as Horní Střimelice, while Hradové Střimelice was known as Dolní Střimelice.

Hills, Trails and Excursions

There are two clearly documented starting points for outdoor activities. A blue-marked hiking trail runs through Kostelní Střimelice and continues to the signpost near Chlum. Official cycling route 4/C also passes through Kostelní Střimelice and is an approximately 30-kilometre loop starting from Sázava. If you compare hiking and cycling, this allows you to distinguish between a marked connection through the village and a loop route starting in Sázava.

In the nearby area is Na Marjánce (Zvánovice), a hill. The surrounding area also includes Horka (Chocerady-Vestec) and Vysoký les (Klokočná), both hills. In the wider regional area are Žebrák, a mountain, Práče, a fortress, and Loreta, a church. The documented scope therefore extends from hills and a mountain to a fortress and a church.

When choosing accommodation, you can therefore weigh whether to focus on the church and the historical traces in the village or use the described hiking and cycling connections as a guide for your further planning. Kostelní Střimelice offers different thematic points of interest connecting cultural history, landscape, and active exploration.

Further Places for Your Travel Planning

If you would like to extend your search to other places, you can also explore Sluhy, Teptin, Jenštejn, Čestlice, Oplany, Doubek, Kostelec Nad Cernými Lesy and Panenské Břežany:

For the higher-level travel overview: Okres Praha-Východ.