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Nature trail L o u n y - Z e m ě c h y
Route length:
- trail measures 3.12 km
Route description:
- route starts at the highest point of the town (by the waterworks above the railway track) and ends 1 km from railway station Jimlín
- trail has 5 stops: n.1 - Louny’s watersupply, n.2 – Climate, n.3 – Czech Middle Mountains, n.4 – Landscape pattern, n.5 - Soil science and sandy marl mining
- on the way back you can continue 1 km along the blue tourist sign; you will find a guidepost by the Jimlín railway station
- 2 km along the blue tourist sign you can see the castle Nový hrad (New castle)
- from Nový hrad (New castle) you can continue throught the chestnut alley to the cemetery, go further along the cemetery wall and rural road towards the west until you reach the road that leads to Líšťany or Louny
- more details can be found here
Louny’s water supply
The first mention of the development of the Louny drinking water distribution facility is from the 16th century, when the renaissance fountain was built in the square.
Using the tunnel, the water was provided from Červený potok (Red Creek) that was running from Zeměchy to today’s puppet theater.
Already in the 18th century, Louny built its first water pipe supply system, and later completed it with several public fountains.
The city built additional water pipes throughout the 19th century. A collecting tank that was built in 1900 did not meet the quality or capacity requirements of the city.
A high-quality well was built opposite the former city swimming pool in 1904.
In the years 1932 and 1933 geological surveys of the surroundings were made and it lead to a solution to use the artesian water to fill the borehole opposite the swimming pool.
It resulted in the increase in number of wells to nine and soon, the tenth – the main collection well – joined.
Using centrifugal pumps, water was pumped from the main well into the terrestrial tanks and, later, into the 36m high water-tower that was handed over to the public in 1936.
Climate
According to E. Quitt, the Louny area is classified as a T2 warm weather area characterised by having a long, warm and dry summer, a warm spring and autumn with short transitional periods, and finally, a locally warm and dry winter with a very short duration of snow cover.
Czech Middle Mountains
The Czech Middle Mountains are part of the Podkrušnohoří region.
The landform occupies an area of 1265 square kilometers.
Due to its unique relief and occurence of rare steppe and forest step communities, the major part of the Czech Middle Mountains is, today a protected landscape area of 1063 square kilometers.
It can be subclassified into two units along the river Labe: Verneřice Middle Mountains - on the right bank - and Milešovice Middle Mountains on the left bank.
The Czech Middle Mountains area is divided into 5 national nature preserves, 8 national natural monuments, 12 nature preserves and 18 nature monuments.
Landscape pattern
In the spring months, the scenery around the “ Dolní Poohří“ (Lower Ohře area) is affected by drying winds, which leads to wind erosion. The topsoil is carried away together with the drill.
It leads to ongoing soil drift and accumulation, as during sand storms.
There is a lack of natural vegetation due to the long-term impacts of agricultural activities in this area.
The field is mostly used for growing wheat, rye, oats, barley, sunflower, canola and corn.
As a result of use of modern weed-killers, a specific group of plants, characterized by remarkable resistance and resilience such as couch grass and thistle, can be found in this area.
Soil science and sandy marl mining
Since the soil is not the same everywhere, the track is divided by many characters.
Brown humus on the sandy arenaceous marl is predominantly found in the local neighborhood.
The biggest influence on the mineralogical composition of the local soil is sandy marlite, which was established by the stabilization of settled marls (a mixture of clay and limestone) with a secondary ingredient of sandy material.
This soil is characterized by large amounts of bedrock stonechips in the top layer.
Sandy marl, which represents the local bedrock, originates from the lower mesozoic era.
The old sandy marl quarry was one of many used for mining of high-quality building stone.
These quarries were established under the Austro-Hungarian mining act. It allowed everyone to have a quarry for their own use (a number of small quarries arose, you can find residue along the nature trail) and allowed owners to sell the building stone (an example, Kandera quarry, is approximately 100m south of this position).
L o u n y - L u ž e r a d y
Route length:
- walking trail measures 5.5 km
Route description:
- leads through the northern part of Louny along the river Ohře, entire circuit consists of 4 stops
- is suitable for both pedestrians and cyclists
- begins under the city walls (from Mirové square up the stairs along the restaurant “U tří lip“)
- circuit continues along the river Ohře to the mill and turns right over the bridge Veslařů
- stop n.2 – Louny’s small pool (under the arches of submersible bridge)
- stop n. 3 – Crossroad by Dobroměřice (garden site “Na Losech“, the path leads between the fields towards Czech Middle Mountains)
- stop n.4 - Lužerady
- from Lužerady back to Louny along the river Ohře
- more details including a map can be found here
Louny‘s small pool
The small pool is a remainder of a cutoff of the Ohře river, and its water soaks into the small pool.
The water area is currently overgrown with common cattail.
The bank vegetation consists of old poplar, willows, aspen, elm and oak trees.
Bushes like black elder, spindle tree, chokecherry, and black dogwood border the small pool.
On the shore of the small pool also grow reed-grass, bitter-sweet, bur-marigold, bur reed, hops, common reed, nettle, water chickweed, purple loosestrife and sweetflag.
There are also many fish and amphibians.
The small pool is used for fishing by the Czech Assosiation of Fishermen of Louny.
Louny’s small pool was registered in 1993 by Louny’s Department of Environment as an important landscape element.
Crossroad by Dobroměřice
The Louny Middle Mountains area, part of the Czech Middle Mountains, is a landscape consisting of extinct touchstone volcanoes.
The most dominant features are the hills Raná (457m above sea level) and Oblík (509m above sea level), both declared national nature preserves.
The original flood-plain forests have been cut down. Today’s path is lined with full-grown hawthorns with bushes, an appropriate shelter for many birds and other small animals.
Lužerady
The last stop is located near the former restaurant Lužerady whitch became popular for its Sunday family trips.The restaurant was situated in the Schwarzenberg gamekeeper’s lodge - the establishment of the regent of the surrounding forests.
The presence of the flood-plain forests is illustrated in the local name of the village Lužerady (lužní = flood-plain).
Extensive grassland vegetations were also gradually transformed into the fields.
Fragments of oak vegetation behind the former pub are significant.
A one hundred year old lime tree grew in the yard of the former pub, but was rooted up during the time of the occupation.Preserved conker and ash alleys border the abandoned area.
L o u n y – S m o l n i c e c r e e k
Route length:
- 2.5 km
Route description
- is located on the tourist path (yellow) leading from Louny along the garden city through Blšany hill, along Smolnice creek to Brloh, and either through Cítoliby or through field paths back to Louny
- has 4 stops: stop n.1 - In Bosnia, stop n.2 - By the Viaduct, stop n.3 - By the forest, stop n.4 - Brloh
- more details can be found here
“In Bosnia“
You are on the land of the Chlumčany municipality, the route passes through the village around the winery and the former mill.
The oldest mention of the village dates from 1316.
Around the 16 century, there was a fortress in Chlumčany with a manor house and its lands. It included meadows, a mill with two mill wheels and two pulpers, and Chlum mountain with its vineyards, lakes, forests and groves.
From the same time dates the winepress house with storage rooms.
Over time, the vineyards perished during the bad crops but, under favorable circumstances, have been renewed again.
The tradition of vineyards in Chlumčany continues to these days.
Bosnia is an old local name of the village Chlumčany with three houses.
Originally there were manor fishing huts.
The name “Bosnia“ originates from the composition of the area, full of hillsides and slopes with a creek and swamps, similar to the landscape in the Balkans.
“By the Viaduct“
The Smolnice creek brings water from Džbán area to Ohře. Its flow and bank vegetation are important landscape elements.
They form an island of vegetation in a landscape heavily affected by humans.
The flow was modified in 1963, 1966 and 1979 by the National Melioration Commitee of Ústí nad Labem.
Modifications to the natural course of the river included adjusting the water flow route, building errosion defenses, scaling the flow, etc.
“By the forest“
In the underbrush grow hawthorns, eglantines, hazels, dogwoods and cornels. The underbrush is a good breeding place for various species of birds. It also provides favorable living conditions for small mammals such as the eastern hedgehog and red squirrel.
During twilight, roe deer and wild hare graze in the forest. Thanks to enough suitable food, wild pigs and foxes can be seen hunting at night.
The plant floor of the forest belongs to bell-flowers.
“Brloh“
Local part of Louny, 5km southeast of Louny.
The trail brings us to farm house n.1, consisting of a house, three agricultural areas and a partly preserved enclosure wall. On some buildings features of country-baroque are visible. Most of the area dates back to the 19th century.
The trail leads around the forest of mixed tree species, mostly deciduous.
L o u n y – w a l k i n g t r a i l O h ř e
Length and route description:
- short walk along the river Ohře from the Jirásek Mills to the Puppet theater. On three information panels you can find information
sabout the river Ohře, bank vegetation and ongoing constructionsalong the walking trail. - more details can be found here
River Ohře
The river rises under the mountain Schneeberg (elevation of 754 m) in Bavarian spruce groves.
It is the second largest tributary of the river Labe.
The river enters the Northwestern Bohemian area in Chomutov district and it flows into the Labe in Litoměřice.
Many water reservoirs were built in the basin of the river Ohře, of which the largest are Skalka, Jesenice and Nechranice.
The total length of the stream is 300.2 square kilometers.
The Czech name “ Ohře“, like the German name “Eger“, is derived from the Celtic name “Agaru“, which supposedly means salmon river.
The first written mention of the Ohře river dates from the 9th century AD.
There were Slavs in the “ Poohří“ (Ohře area) back then who completely pushed away the original Celtic and partly Germanic inhabitants.
In the 1880s the first fishing associations were set up. Their goal was to take care of the fish and the river.
Currently, under the program called “Salmon 2000”, removal of barriers to the Ohře’s flow is ongoing. By building fish transitions, the salmon are starting to slowly return.
Birdlife by the river
The river bank is formed by a relatively steep slope oriented to the north, with trees such as willow, lime, elm, oak, ash hawthorn and maple.
Under the trees grow bushes like devilwood, hazel, greybeard and cornel.
The herb layer is dominated by weeds such as nettles, touch-me-nots, geums etc.
On land, hidden under the bushes, certain types of songbirds like blackcap, whitewing, nightingale, etc., are nesting.
Frequently the birds build a nest in the middle of bushes or trees.
The hollows of the trees are occupied by starlings, great-spotted woodpeckers, etc.
In general, 20 kinds of birds nest here. The river Ohře is also an important winter site of waterfowl.
Řopík floods
In order to avoid any damages during floods, the water level has been monitored since 1884.
A machine to control the critical flood flow - water level recorder – was installed in 1901.
Along the old stairs, right by the walking trail, there is a level gauge with a mark of the city’s worst flood of the 19th century which occured in in 1862.
Řopík is the name of a small building along the walking trail. It is a concrete blockhouse of an infantry border fortification.
Louny – Březno (Archeological open-air skanzen)
Route length:
c. 6.5 km (by bus, train, car, bicycle or walking)
Route description:
- by bus (c. 10 min.), from Louny bus station (in the direction of Postoloprty)
- by train (c. 10 min.), from Louny railway station: route Louny – Postoloprty, get off at Březno station and then along the river
- by car (c. 5 min.), along Main Connecting Road (class I) No. 7 from Louny to Postoloprty, then turn at bus stop Farm Březno in the north direction towards the river
- by bicycle (c. 25 min.) or
- walking (c. 45 min.) – from Louny square along the yellow tourist marker; in the direction from Postoloprty leave the Main Road (I) No. 7 for Březno municipality, then along the river
Březno
Approximately one kilometre east of the municipality, above the right bank of the Ohře River, there are the grounds of an open-air museum comprising reconstructed primeval and Early-medieval constructions. In contrast to other open-air museums of Europe, there are settlement objects built approximately on ground-plans discovered with a search of this archeological locality by Dr. Ivana Pleinerová. The oldest reconstructed object was originally built in Early-Stone-Age period.
Contact:
Oblastní muzeum (Regional Museum), Pivovarská 28, Louny, Ph.: +420 415 652 456
Březno Archeological open-air skanzen, Ph.: +420 415 783 057
Open: from 1st May to 30 September 2010, daily: 09:00 a.m.– 05:00 p.m.
Louny – Jimlín – Pravda (Pnětluky)
Route length:
20 km (bicycle, car, train, walking)
Route description:
- by car (c. 20 min.), route Louny (the Mírové Square), Jimlín, Opočno, Hřivice, Konětopy, parting of roads below Pravda (16.5 km), possibility of parking in the village green at Pnětluky or directly below Pravda (from Pnětluky in the direction of Domoušice turn at the crossroads to Solopysky).
We would like to point out that there is a parking place in the forest!
- by train (c. 25 min.), from Louny railway station: route Louny – Rakovník (by way of Jimlín, Opočno, Touchovice, Hřivice); get off at Konětopy, then walk to Pnětluky, from there take the green-marked path to the ruined castle of Pravda (c. 1.5 km).
- by bicycle (c. 50 min.), route Louny (Mírové Square), Jimlín, Opočno, Hřivice, Konětopy, parting of roads below Pravda (16.5 km)
- walking (c. 20.5 km), from Louny (Mírové Square) along the red-marked path to Zbrašín (at the waterworks), from there along the blue-marked path as far as the parting of roads below Pravda.
Zeměchy
A picturesque village in the southwest of Louny. On the village green there is a square, Late-Baroque chapel.
Jimlín
On a hill above the municipality there is Nový hrad (Note: Open every first Saturday of the month(you can find the Saturday in www.mulouny.cz) and some special days, contact: Mr. Pilař - castellan +420 415 652 456, Regional Museum Louny +415 621 456) originally a late-Gothic castle from the 15th century, reconstructed to a chateau in a Baroque style. It has a striking Baroque onion-domed tower. Currently, the object is not open for public, excepting annual Nový-hrad country fair in May. On the left-hand side, opposite the chateau, there is a Baroque statue of St John of Nepomuk, placed on a decorated pedestal, made of local sandstone. On a garden fencing wall of house No. 225 by the through road in the municipality, there is another statue of St John of Nepomuk. A neo-Romanesque chapel from the 19th century can be found on the village green.
Opočno
In the middle of the municipality there is one-nave Baroque church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary, built on the base of an older Gothic church. A lower part of the tower with groined vault, from the original Gothic construction, has been preserved in the basement. On the village green, in the vicinity of the church, there is a Baroque statue of St John of Nepomuk on a rectangular pedestal.
Natural places of interest: In the west of the municipality in the turning between Lipenec and Opočno there are outcrops of ferric aluminosilicate sandstone ("a fold of Malenice"), fossilized sea species from the Cretaceous period.
Touchovice
A late-Baroque square masonry chapel with a polyhedral roof, located on the village green, dates back to the 18th century.
Hřivice
On a hilltop above the village green there is the Baroque one-nave church of St James in a place where an older Gothic church used to be, later destroyed by a fire. In the niches of its facade there are statues of SS Prokop and Vojtěch. In the north of the church there is a belfry with a clock.
Konětopy
A late-Baroque chapel with a campanile, closeby a cross with a relief of the Virgin Mary on a pedestal, folk work. In the east of the municipality hill Bor can be seen, with an ancient site of a fortified settlement not yet archeologically surveyed.
Pnětluky
On a hilltop in the municipality there is a late-Baroque one-nave church of St Matthew with a triangular gable in the western facade and a spire over presbytery. From the built-up area of the municipality a one-storey Baroque granary above a pond has been preserved, in whose masonry, an old stronghold of Pnětluky is, allegedly, hidden. About 1.5 km southeast of the municipality of Pnětluky, accessible along the green-marked path, the ruined castle Pravda has been preserved in the forest. Its origin is not quite clear. From the fortifications the castle ramparts, deep vallums, a moat, and a huge mound with artillery posts in the northern settlement of the castle. Parts of a gate in the shape of a tower, and two residential buildings have been preserved in the masonry, of which a palace with a preserved cellar was situated in the western corner.
Louny – Stříbrník (Ejem´s chalet)
Route length:
c. 2 km (by bus, car, train, bicycle or walking)
Tour description:
- by bicycle (c. 15 min.) or walking (c. 30 min.) in the direction from Louny to Dobroměřice before the Flood bridge on the left-hand side – through gardens, further in the municipality of Dobroměřice along an old road in the direction to Most. Behind the municipality (c. 1.5 km) on the right-hand side there is an access road to Stříbrník.
- by bus (c. 5 min. just to Dobroměřice and further on foot), Louny, Žižkova street, bus station to Dobroměřice, from there walking along an old road in the direction to Most, and behind the municipality c. 1.5 km, on the right-hand side there is an access road to Stříbrník
- by car (c. 5 min.), from Louny to Dobroměřice, then along an old road in the direction to Most. You can use the road as far as the look-out tower.
Louny
The Flood bridge, located on the way from Louny to Dobroměřice, belongs to a category of technical monuments. Its 40 spans were built during the Napoleonic Wars.
Dobroměřice
is located approximately two kilometres north of Louny. On the village green stands a one-nave Gothic church of St Matthew with a prismatoid spire added to the northern wall of the nave. The core of the construction dates back from the 2nd half of the 13th century. The church has been lately many times reconstructed. Last modifications were made in 1907. In the interior, a rib vault of the presbytery and remnants of wall paintings from the 14th century have been preserved. Not far from the church in the northwest direction there is an old school No. 5, dated by a classicist inscribed tablet with a Louny coat of arms of 1805. On the village green by the road to Nečichy, on a Baroque pedestal from 1736, there is a sandstone statue of St Václav, additionally set in the 19th century. At the crossroads of the main road to Bílina and the side road to Lenešice there is a sandstone pylon of an old milepost.
Stříbrník
offers a beautiful view of Louny and surroundings. At Stříbrník there is the Fortzl´s look-out tower and Ejem´s tourist chalet (refreshment facilities)
Contact: Mrs. Šavická +420 737 865 452
Ejem´s chalet is in possession of KČT,
Open: April – November, Mon - Sun + Bank holidays 12:00 – 18:00 p.m.
Louny – Peruc
Route length:
c. 22 km (by bus, train, bicycle)
Route description:
- by bus (c. 40 min.), from Louny bus station (in the direction of Peruc)
- by train (c. 30 min.), from Louny railway station: route Louny – Kralupy nad Vltavou (via Chlumčany, Cítoliby, Vrbno n. Lesy)
- by bicycle (route No. 1), c. 22 km long (Louny–Černčice–Veltěže–Slavětín–Kystra–Radonice–Pátek–Stradonice–Peruc) (route No. 2), c. 12 km long (Louny–Černčice–Veltěže–Slavětín–Peruc)
Slavětín
The village of Slavětín is located eight kilometres east of Louny. The first record of Slavětín dates back from 1268 when it was assigned to Prague bishopric by Přemysl Otakar II. In the 14th century it was acquired by secular nobility. For almost 200 years Slavětín was in possession of the House of Házmburgs during whose reign art decoration of the Church of St Jakub Větší was created. This one-nave, originally Romanesque church is notable especially by its Gothic frescoes in the presbytary. From the Romanesque part from the 13th century, masonry remnants of the nave with six arched windows have been preserved. In the 14th century the church was extended by a presbytary with pointed windows. Paintings, restored in 1998 belonging to the best preserved complete sets in Bohemia, date back to the second half of the 1370s. The spire at the western facade of the church dates back from 1837, the church was restored in 1881 by J. Mocker. Next to the entrance into the church is Konstantin Biebl´s tomb. Nearby the church, valuable premises of a Baroque parish from between 1753 – 1759 has been preserved. In one of the angles of the triangular village green is a sculptural group of St John of Nepomuk with a Baroque pedestal with statues, set in 1900, created by J. Havel of Slaný. Before the municipality, on the right-hand side of the road in the direction from Veltěže, there is a eight-side Baroque chapel of Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Konstantin Biebl (1898 – 1951 Praha), a famous Czech poet was born at No. 60 in the municipality. At the northwestern edge of the municipality, under a solitary linden-tree near the railway station, is a menhir called Baba, a stone of ferric sandstone with the height of 1.9 m.
Following a telephone arrangement, you can visit an agrotourist family farm of Mr L. Suchý, who breeds a variety of animals. It is possible to book accommodation in the Hájenka boarding house, with styled dining facilities and a bar.
It is open for public from April to October.
Contact:
+420 415 677 224, +420 606 308 043
Peruc
The time-honoured agricultural municipality of Peruc is situated above a forested terrain dislocation falling into a wide valley of the closeby Ohře River. Long time ago this countryside became one of the most attractive parts of the entire extensive Louny region for tourists. Peruc has been taken into public awareness, above all, by a romantic legend concerning a meeting of Oldřich and Božena. Chronicler Kosmas was the first to record this romance at the beginning of the 12th century, followed by Dalimil and Václav Hájek of Libočany. Through history, lots of remarkable monuments have been left in Peruc. A dominant of the village green is the Church of SS Peter and Paul with an imposing arcade and valuable interior furnishings. A campanile (fork) and stone
way-side cross with no date have also been preserved. However, most sought-after is the roofed pseudo-Gothic Božena´s well, around which you can descend to an age-old, mighty Oldřich´s oak. The tree is c. 1000 years old with trunk circumference of 745 cm. Three-winged Rococo storeyed chateau, attracting visitors by an oval entrance hall with a staircase, statues and other decoration, is situated opposite the church. Another place of interest, worth mentioning, is Emil Filla´s Gallery, situated in the chateau grounds with the painter´s current art exhibition (Emil Filla – the Bohemian Uplands cycle).
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Bohemian village museum
Open:
Tue - Fri: 09:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and 12,00 - 16,30 p.m., Sat - Sun: 9,00 - 11,30 and 12,00 - 16,30 p
May – October
Contact:
Mrs. Jana Hauptvogelová, +420 722 110 784
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Galerie u Kozorožce (Gallery at Capricorn)
Vernissage by Vladimíra Burianová, exhibition title: "Darované dny" (Days as a gift)
Open:
from 19th March to 28th September 2010, every day 10:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m.
Contact:
+420 415 697 005
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Galerie U Plazíka
Open:
Wed., Fri, Sat, Sun from 10:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. (lunch break 12:00 - 01:00 p.m.)
Contact:
Mr. Miroslav Blažek, +420 605 345 804, blazekmi@centrum.cz
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Chateau (E. Filla´s Hall)
Open:
May - September: Tue – Sun: 10:00 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.,
Contact:
Zámecká zahrada 386, Peruc, tel.: +420 415 697 171