Hradčany: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

The Žehuňský rybník–Obora Kněžičky Bird Protection Area also includes the cadastral area of Hradčany u Žehuně. It is significant as a breeding area for 131 bird species and as a migration area for waterfowl and birds of prey.

Nature

The Žehuňsko area combines forests on uplands, steep white slopes with thermophilous oak forests, and wetland habitats around ponds. The well-preserved thermophilous oak forests are home to the purple orchid and other notable thermophilous plants, including burning bush, blue gromwell, Michels's sedge, and white helleborine.

The Žehuňsko–Báň Nature Monument covers 10.58 hectares at an elevation of 240 to 270 metres. It consists of a former orchard and a former pasture with partly shrub-rich forest-steppe, a white slope with exposed rock, and young forests with downy oaks. In Hradčany, the nature monument is a south-facing protected slope that was placed under protection on 29 December 1972.

The slope of the Žehuňsko–Báň Nature Monument offers views of the landscape of the central Elbe lowlands.

History and culture

Hradčany is home to a restored monument to those who fell in the First World War, made of yellow sandstone and featuring a figurative relief.

Stará Báň preserves a horseshoe-shaped summit platform measuring approximately 26 × 19 metres. It is protected on three sides by a prominent ditch; on the southern and eastern sides, an outer rampart supplements the fortification and reaches a height of up to 3 metres. Stará Báň is the surviving earthwork of a medieval fortification dating from around the 14th century, which was associated with the local landed nobility. Its existence is documented in 1497; in 1550, the site was described as deserted.

The Zámeček hill is a well-preserved conical earth mound that is still intact today, surrounded by a circular ditch and located near a former forester's lodge. The Zámeček archaeological site documents the remains of a medieval castle complex that has since disappeared, as well as those of the vanished medieval village of Mastnice.

Things to do

A Class III cycle route passes through Hradčany u Žehuně and continues via Dlouhopolsko, Opočnice, Běrunice, Městec Králové, and Činěves.

The UŽ6 bunker can be reached by car; up to four cars can park on the premises. A reservation is required for the UŽ6 bunker; the stated sleeping capacity is three people.

More local pages: Ostrá, Vrbice, Kouty, Činěves, Sadská, Rozdalovice, Jizbice, Vrbová Lhota

To the higher-level travel overview: Nymburk District.