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Louny – Březno (Archeological open-air skanzen)
Route length:
c. 6.5 km Route description:
- 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
Route description:
- 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 Tour description:
- 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.
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.
Ejem´s chalet is in possession of KČT,
Open: April – November, Mon - Sun + Bank holidays 12:00 – 18:00 p.m.