Žiželice: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Žiželice is a place whose history and landscape can be seen at several specific sites.

Culture

The Žiželice Museum is located on the ground floor of the historic town hall. The town hall was built by Martin Sobota, a master mason from Žiželice, after the great fire of Žiželice in 1800. The museum presents a permanent local-history exhibition on the history of the small town, which is connected with the history of Hradišťský hrad Castle. The castle stood on a spur above the Cidlina in Hradišťko. The ethnographic exhibition at the Žiželice Museum documents the heyday of crafts and guilds through guild banners, seals, journeymen's and guild documents, as well as facsimiles of guild books.

History and Townscape

The first written record of the Žiželice area dates from 1052; at that time, a wooden church and a market centre for the wider surrounding area already stood there. A stone church was built in Žiželice in 1437 to the original dimensions; a substantial part of its masonry has survived to this day.

The Žiželice road bridge over the Cidlina is a reinforced-concrete structure from 1923. It has two reinforced-concrete girder spans; the total length of the crossing is 40.9 metres.

Landscape and Nature

Žiželice lies on the Cidlina River in a flat, gently hilly landscape. The Žehuňský rybník–Obora Kněžičky Special Protection Area includes extensive reed beds and wet meadows around Žehuňský rybník, an area consisting predominantly of oak-hornbeam forest in Žehuňská obora, as well as the small Kopičácký rybník. Žehuňský rybník was created on the Cidlina in 1492, and Žehuňská obora was established in 1840. The Žehuňský rybník–Obora Kněžičky Special Protection Area extends into the Zbraň district of Žiželice and into intensively farmed agricultural land to the southwest.

Getting Around

Cycle Route 4199 is part of a cycling route from Nymburk via Poděbrady, Libice nad Cidlinou, Žehuň and Žiželice to Chlumec nad Cidlinou. Žiželice is directly connected to the D11 motorway and the adjoining network of Class II and Class III roads.

Other Places

Other local pages: Polepy, Skvrňov, Cerhenice, Tuchoraz, Tuklaty, Ratenice, Mrzky, Choťovice.

For the overarching travel overview: Kolín District.