Chlumec U Chabařovic: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Chlumec is closely associated with the Battle of Chlumec, which took place on 29 and 30 August 1813 near Chlumec and Přestanov in northern Bohemia. Churches, chapels, memorial sites and marked trails commemorate this history at several locations in the town.

Culture and history

The Church of St Havel was built in Chlumec between 1847 and 1852. Its grounds include a surrounding wall with an entrance gate, a bell tower and the church on an elevated spur of land. Inside are figurative Renaissance tombs of the Kölbl family dating from 1606 to 1619.

The Chapel of the Holy Trinity preserves wall frescoes from 1691 depicting the Te Deum. It was built to commemorate the averting of the plague epidemic in 1680 and has a floor plan in the shape of an equilateral triangle.

At the eastern edge of Chlumec, at the foot of Horka, stands the anniversary monument to the Battle of 1813, erected in 1913 to mark its centenary. The 26-metre-high Art Nouveau monument is crowned by a lion sculpture. Martínkovna also documents the original vernacular architecture of Chlumec.

Trails and events

The Chlumec Stations of the Cross begins at the Church of St Havel and climbs around the basalt hill of Horka to the Chapel of the Holy Trinity. It consists of fourteen sandstone niche chapels. The 7.5-kilometre yellow hiking trail through Chlumec links further historical traces: it leads to memorial sites and other significant locations of the Battle of Chlumec, as well as to Horka and the 1813 anniversary monument.

A roughly 7-kilometre green hiking trail also leads from Chlumec via the U Laviček viewpoint and past Mravenčí vrch. A family route of approximately 4 kilometres offers tasks, riddles and a map. Cycle Route 3009 runs directly through Chlumec and is approximately 33 kilometres long. The Podkrušnohorský motoráček stops at Chlumec railway station.

Since 1992, on the last Saturday in August each year, people interested in the Napoleonic Wars and members of military history associations have gathered at Horka for demonstrations of the military history of the period.

Surroundings and landscape

The ruins of Hrad Kysperk are located in the vicinity of Chlumec. The surroundings of Chlumec include Hrad Střekov Castle, the Osterzgebirge Wildlife Park, Glaberův vrch mountain, Scharspitze mountain and Kozí vrch mountain.

In the wider regional surroundings of Chlumec are Wittigschloß Castle and the ruins of Sukoslav.

Further local pages open the pages for Tisá, Chabařovice, Perštejn, Trmice, Malečov, Velké Chvojno, Velké Březno and Řehlovice.

For the higher-level travel overview: Okres Ústí Nad Labem.