Tochovice: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Tochovice combines a chateau in an extensive English landscape park with a cemetery church at the other end of the village. The chateau is a two-wing, single-storey Empire-style building with a frontage facing the English park; the chateau and park are privately owned and not open to the public.

Culture and history

The Church of St Martin is considered Tochovice’s oldest monument. The parish church already existed in 1331 and was a parish church from 1356 onward. It preserves a Gothic portal and old gravestones; a new nave and a tall tower were added between 1899 and 1904.

On the road to Březnice stands the Chapel of St Anne, a small Baroque chapel. It was built before the mid-18th century, was already being used for religious devotions before 1780, and was restored by the municipality of Tochovice in 2013.

The sculpture Živá voda now stands in the park near Nové bytovky. Its creator is the academic sculptor Jan Pichl (*1935).

Above Podrejží, on the slope of Holý vrch, lies the Celtic sanctuary Keltské hradiště Třebsko II. Of the contemporaneous square fortifications, which have almost completely disappeared today, only a distinctive terrain edge on the northeastern side of the outline remains visible in the landscape.

Landscape and trails

Remains of gold panning can be found by the stream near Podrejží. Along the Lázský potok near the Podrejží millworks lie so-called rýžovnické sejpy, the remains of medieval and modern-era gold panning.

Cycle route 8212 runs along the route Třebsko – Tochovice – Stará Voda – Hořejany – Tušovice – Svojšice – Řeteč. A geocaching route now follows the former Orlík branch railway line.

The Tochovický kros Podrejžím is a seven-kilometre autumn run through the Džbány wooded valley along the Lázský potok. The route passes the Džbánek ponds and wetlands, goes by the watermill in Podrejží and the former mining settlement of Kamenná, and returns to Tochovice.

Railway

Tochovice railway station is located on line 200 between Beroun and Protivín, which runs via Praha and České Budějovice. The U Kolejí railway exhibition is prepared at Tochovice house no. 87, next to the Tochovice zastávka stop. Visitors and passers-by can ring the bell so that Dan Suk can guide them through the exhibition.

Other local pages

Other local pages: Bratrikovice, Zaluzany, Čím, Pouste, Týnčany, Lešetice, Nový Knín, Dlouhá Lhota

To the higher-level travel overview: Příbram District.