Postupice: Jemniště Chateau, Park and St Martin's Church

Postupice can be explored through several themes: the history of the chateau, a historically developed park landscape, medieval and Baroque church architecture, Jemniště’s picnic offering and cycling route 0072. If you would like to combine culture and nature during your stay, you will find various starting points here for planning your trip, without having to commit to just one type of excursion.

Jemniště Chateau and its park

Jemniště Chateau was completed in October 1725 according to a design by the Czech architect František Maxmilián Kaňka. Visits are only possible with a guided tour and take about 50 minutes. For your daily itinerary, this means a clearly defined visit in a fixed format: you experience the chateau as part of a guided tour and can then combine further impressions with time in the park or other cultural stops.

The park at Jemniště was laid out around 1725 by František Adam Trauttmansdorff. At the end of the 18th century, Jindřich Rottenhan made significant changes to its design and planting. The original formal French garden was partially redesigned and expanded to include a naturalistic landscape park. The 13-hectare park also contains a system of three ponds. Here, stricter historical garden forms meet a landscape-oriented design.

The so-called Old Chateau in Jemniště also tells of an older building history: it developed from a stone water castle. This stood beside a pond that supplied its moats with water. The reference to the water castle adds an earlier architectural layer to the later history of the chateau and makes Jemniště particularly interesting if you would like to consider historical developments through more than just a single building.

St Martin's Church: Traces of Gothic and Baroque styles

In Postupice, the history of St Martin's Church dates back to the period before or around 1250; the oldest part originates from this era. Only the chancel remains of the original Gothic church. Its eastern window still features Gothic tracery. The two-nave body of the church has a barrel vault with lunettes. The nave and tower date from a Baroque renovation carried out in 1718. This means that several clearly recognisable building phases can be encountered in one church: the Gothic chancel and the later Baroque form of the nave and tower.

Picnic and cycling route

Jemniště’s picnic offering includes 120 g of game sausage with pickled cucumber and bread; the sausage is roasted and served cold. Another option consists of 150 g of house-smoked venison or wild boar haunch with horseradish, mustard, pickled cucumber and bread. These two options give your planning a specific culinary focus if you would like to shape an excursion not only around sights but also around these dishes.

For cyclists, cycling route 0072 runs between Český Šternberk and Postupice. When looking for accommodation in Postupice, it therefore makes particular sense to consider whether you want to focus your stay on culture, the park landscape, Jemniště’s picnic offering or cycling.

If you would like to continue your research on the Czech Republic beyond Postupice, you can find more places under Divišov, Bystřice U Benešova, Xaverov, Chocerady, Kuňovice, Hulice, Pysely and Rabyne.

For the higher-level travel overview: Okres Benešov.