Týnec: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Culture and History

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Týnec dates back to the mid-14th century. In the second half of the 17th century, a tower, sacristy and gallery for the oratory were added. Inside, there is a 16th-century Gothic fresco depicting a kneeling knight in an acanthus frame. The southern door is an intarsia Renaissance element from 1617 and bears the monograms of Jan and Alena z Wiederspergu. The complex also includes the Kolovrat family crypt, the cemetery gate and the cemetery enclosure wall.

Paths and Structures

In Loreta, the ruins of the Chapel of Saint John of Nepomuk date from the first half of the 18th century; today, only the chapel’s surrounding walls remain. The ruins can be reached from Týnec via a 1.5 km-long footpath. The Loreta Chapel in Loreta was reconstructed in the 1990s, and the coats of arms of the Kolowrat and Vrbna families are located on its eastern façade. It can serve as the starting point for an approximately 1.5 km walk to the ruins of the Chapel of Saint John of Nepomuk and back. Along the way, the path passes the upper and lower outlets of the Loreta adit and a former hunting lodge. A yellow-marked hiking trail also runs through Týnec.

Park and Nature

The park behind Týnec Chateau features a central avenue, extensive meadows and an old, impressive collection of trees. Rare woody plants include the Caucasian fir, the yellow-variegated yew, the plane tree, the copper beech, columnar pedunculate oaks and valuable old lime trees.

The Loreta Adit in Loreta is protected as a natural monument. The portal of the lower entrance to the old Loreta mine bears the barely visible year 1889. The Loreta Adit is also the most significant bat wintering site in West Bohemia, particularly for the greater mouse-eared bat, whiskered bat, Daubenton’s bat and brown long-eared bat.

Other places: Sveradice, Srní, Prasily, Svata Katerina, Velké Hydčice, Mysliv, Kocourov and Besiny.

To the overarching travel overview: Klatovy District.