Osek: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Osek is a place with the listed Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, a Jewish cemetery, and several named hiking and excursion routes.

Culture

In the southern part of Osek, the listed Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk stands on the main road. It was built in the second half of the 18th century with Baroque elements, on a rectangular ground plan and with a three-sided apse.

Around 50 tombstones from the first half of the 19th century have been preserved on the 250-square-metre grounds of Osek Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery is freely accessible.

At the southern edge of Osek lies the extensive Zámek Osek complex with a landscaped park. On the site of today’s pseudo-Baroque, four-winged château, built in 1911, there stood a fortress built by the Osecký of Brloh family in the 15th century; JUDr. Eduard Daubek commissioned its conversion.

About 1 kilometre south of Osek, the roadside shrine of St. Tekla stands along the main road towards Kbelnice. The masonry-built column is considered a valuable landscape feature and a testimony to popular religious devotion.

Nature

The municipality’s events calendar lists the spring hike “Okolo Oseka” for 2024, 2025, and 2026. The “Pochod okolo Oseka” in 2026 starts at the village inn and leads mainly into the forests behind Malá Turná. The 35-kilometre excursion route “Za památkami Radomyšle” also passes through Osek.

The nearby surroundings of Osek include Chlum Mountain, the hills of Vejskavec [Osek-Malá Turná], Dubovec [Přešťovice - Brusy], and Jasanový [Radomyšl-Leskovice], which is classified as a viewpoint, as well as the Radomysl Mediumwave Radio Mast site, which is considered a ruin.

Wider Area

The wider regional surroundings of Osek include Zvíkov Castle, the historical site of Lety u Písku – Památník holokaustu Romů a Sintů v Čechách, and Svatý Jan Church.

Other Locality Pages

Other locality pages: Sloucín, Třebohostice, Vodnany, Libějovice, Hájek U Bavorova, Katovice, Litochovice, Strunkovice Nad Volyňkou.

To the higher-level travel overview: Strakonice District.