Castrov: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Častrov is home to the parish church of St. Nicholas, a two-storey Art Nouveau building, and several wayside shrines.

Culture

The parish church of St. Nicholas in Častrov was founded around 1350. It has a Gothic core and was remodelled in the Baroque period. It is protected as a cultural monument; its register number is ÚSKP 26993/3-2964. The unusually arranged clocks in the onion dome of its tower are particularly striking.

The school in Častrov is a two-storey Art Nouveau building dating from 1912–1913. Its T-shaped floor plan has a central wing that projects into the garden. Above the central risalit gable, a figurative relief depicts two seated young women, a book and children; an owl relief is located in the tympanum of the entrance portal.

Architecture

The rectory with an economic courtyard is a single-storey Neoclassical building dating from around 1800, near the church. It has a mansard roof and adjoining farm buildings.

The wayside shrine in Častrov is a late Gothic granite monument dating from around 1500. It has a slender lantern chapel open on three sides, with so-called ogee arches. The chapel is crowned by a pyramidal roof with a substantial stone cross.

A Baroque stone wayside shrine in the south of the municipality of Častrov has a column with entasis on a cuboid base. Its cushion capital supports a prismatic chapel with an illegible Czech inscription.

Remembrance

The Park by the Church in Častrov is a registered significant landscape feature and is subject to enhanced protection under the municipal development plan.

The monument to those who fell in the First World War was handed over to the citizens on 5 July 1923. Since then, the so-called National Summer Pilgrimage has taken place in Častrov on the first Sunday in August.

Discover more local pages here: Trsov, Hojovice, Křeč, Eš, Hodejovice, Buřenice, Senozaty, Onšov.

For the broader travel overview: Pelhřimov District.