Dolní Dubňany: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Church of St. Wenceslas in Dolní Dubňany dates from the mid-13th century. An archaeological area classified as ÚAN I has been recorded around it; finds and settlement traces from the Linear Pottery culture, the Bell Beaker culture, the Únětice culture, and from the Middle Ages to the modern era have been documented there.

Culture

The folk costume from Dolní Dubňany is considered a fundamental example of the folk costumes from the Moravskokrumlovsko region and is classified as the West Moravian type. After the traditional Václavské hody celebrations in 2023, the local Chasa initiated the restoration of the Dolní Dubňany folk costume, which had not been renewed for 170 years. At the traditional Václavské hody celebrations in Dolní Dubňany in 2024, the first two pairs wearing the renewed Dolní Dubňany folk costume were presented.

Local customs include a spring tradition in which a girl carried “Smrtolka”, wrapped in a featherbed, while the other girls followed her, sang, and moved the decorated figure to the rhythm. During this spring tradition, the girls buried “Smrtolka” in the featherbed in every house to welcome spring. Local folk songs are still sung in Dolní Dubňany; the so-called Kloboukový obřad is also still maintained there.

Nature

The municipal territory of Dolní Dubňany lies in the Znojmo Uplands between the catchment areas of the Rokytná and Jihlava rivers. The Široký Nature Monument covers 0.6515 hectares and protects narrow-leaved dry grasslands with the large-flowered pasque flower (Pulsatilla grandis), the Bohemian star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea bohemica), and other rare, in some cases specially protected, plant and animal species.

The Ve Žlebě Nature Monument covers 2.4831 hectares and overlaps with the Natura 2000 site of Community importance CZ0622161. In the vicinity of Dolní Dubňany, walks through the spring landscape can lead to slopes with rare pasque flowers, which grow particularly near the Dolnodubňanská Reservoir “Balaton”.

Marked cycle route No. 401 runs through Dolní Dubňany along the Moravský Krumlov–Horní Dubňany route towards Třebíč. The marked Mlynářská stezka trail between Nové Město na Moravě and Hardegg also passes through the village.

Geographical location

Dolní Dubňany lies approximately halfway between Brno and Znojmo and belongs to the South Moravian Region.

Other places on the same level are Lančov, Valtrovice, Miroslav, Hrušovany Nad Jevišovkou, Podmyče, Sumna, Zblovice and Prokopov.

To the higher-level travel overview: Znojmo District.