Hostín U Vojkovic: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

In Hostín u Vojkovic, a parish church with Romanesque and Early Gothic origins, a Baroque cemetery chapel, and a natural body of water on the northern edge of the village come together. Architectural history and open river landscape thus shape the distinctive features of the village.

Culture and History

The parish church “Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie” is a Romanesque and Early Gothic sacred building. After 1615, it was partially remodelled in the Renaissance style and transformed in the Baroque style in the 18th century. A Gothic southern portal and an Early Gothic presbytery have been preserved. The church was already mentioned as a parish church in 1290; its first mention dates from 1320.

The cemetery chapel “Kaple Božího těla” was built from 1735 to 1736 in the Baroque style under the direction of the Italian Jeroným Costa. Its original circular ground plan has an internal diameter of 12 m and an external diameter of 17 m.

Nature and Landscape

Selská tůň, a natural body of water with riparian communities and floodplain forest, lies on the northern edge of Hostín u Vojkovic. The pool is a remnant of a naturally deepened section of a meander of the Vltava. The area is a biotope for specially protected amphibian, reptile, and bird species.

Hostín u Vojkovic lies in a broad, flat, open landscape along the Elbe and Vltava rivers. Fruit and vegetable cultivation, as well as sugar beet cultivation, have a long tradition in the Hostín u Vojkovic region due to the soil and climatic conditions.

Leisure and Transport

Hostín u Vojkovic has a football field as well as a tennis and volleyball court with artificial lighting and the appropriate facilities.

Hostín u Vojkovic can only be reached by road II/101 from Neratovice to Kralupy nad Vltavou and has neither a railway connection nor any other transport connection.

More local pages: Horní Počaply, Vidim, Nelahozeves, Zlončice, Ovčáry U Dřís, Hoření Vinice, Chorušice, Kokořín.

To the higher-level travel overview: Mělník District.