Discover Hošťalovice: Church, Trails and History

Hošťalovice between History, Trails and Landscape

Hošťalovice is a destination with several clearly distinct points of interest: St. Havel Church leads deep into the history of the village, a war memorial commemorates the world wars, and the Partisan Trail and Cycling Route No. 4179 also provide routes for active days. This picture is complemented by the pond on the northwestern edge of the village and by local events. If you are looking for accommodation in Hošťalovice, you can therefore first consider whether culture, places of remembrance, hiking, cycling or the landscape should be the focus of your trip.

St. Havel: An Early Gothic Focal Point

St. Havel Church is an early Gothic building that probably dates from around 1300. Because of its high-quality architecture and Gothic wall paintings, it is considered a monument of significant art-historical value. During renovation work in 1903, the wall paintings were whitewashed. It is precisely this combination of an early construction date, written records and later altered furnishings that makes St. Havel a distinct cultural and historical subject when exploring Hošťalovice. The information documents the building’s historical and art-historical significance without presupposing any specific present-day opportunity to visit it.

Commemorative Culture and Local Tradition

The historic villagescape also includes the Hošťalovice war memorial for the soldiers who fell in the First World War. It was erected in 1934 on the initiative of the Rozkvět educational association. Since 1975, it has also featured a memorial plaque for Josef Huňáček from Březinka, who died in the Terezín concentration camp during the Second World War. The memorial thus combines two levels of remembrance and complements the older history of the church with an insight into the local history of the 20th century.

Another form of local tradition is the annual firefighting sports competition “O putovní pohár starosty obce Hošťalovice” in fire attack. The Hošťalovice sports complex is used particularly for sporting, social, cultural and educational purposes. The municipal refreshment establishment on the grounds has a regularly open bar. For your trip planning, this creates a place where sporting and community connections explicitly come together, without any further event or facility features being inferred from this.

Circular Trail, Cycling Route and Pond

The Partisan Trail associated with Hošťalovice is a continuous circular trail with eight thematic stations and runs along marked KČT routes. Cycling Route No. 4179 passes through Hošťalovice between Březinka and Licoměřice. This provides a thematic circular trail and a numbered cycling route for two different types of travel.

The Hošťalovice Pond is also part of the local landscape. It lies on the northwestern edge of Hošťalovice, and the Hošťalovický potok stream flows out of it. Residents and holiday-home users from Hošťalovice and Březinka may fish in the Hošťalovice Pond after joining the local fishing association. This regulation is important for trip planning because it restricts fishing to a specific group of people and makes it conditional on joining the association.

Public Transport

Hošťalovice is connected to public transport via three bus routes: Chrudim–Ronov nad Doubravou, Hošťalovice–Přelouč and Podhořany–Prachovice. The last route runs only via Březinka.

Further Destinations to Research

For your further search, you can also visit Bor U Skutce, Lipovec, Chrudim, Leštinka, Mýtka, Úherčice, Hluboká and Smrček.

For the higher-level travel overview: Chrudim District.