Kamenice: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Renaissance fortress offers a glimpse into Kamenice’s history: it acquired its present appearance through a reconstruction in the mid-16th century, while its façade is decorated with sgraffito from the late 16th century. Today, the complex serves as a museum and can be visited by prior arrangement.

Culture and History

The Church of St James the Greater preserves several layers of construction and interior decoration. It retains a late Romanesque core and a southern Romanesque portal. In the second half of the 15th century, it received a new Gothic presbytery with a triumphal arch; fragments of late Gothic paintings of a rustic character can be found on the walls of the nave.

The Chapel of St Anne is an example of small-scale central sacred architecture in a rural setting from around 1730. To this day, it is used mainly for weekday religious services because it is more accessible. At the Chapel of St Mark, also known as the Chapel of St John of Nepomuk, the tradition of a procession and devotional service for favourable weather and a good harvest was revived on the occasion of the Feast of St Mark.

Nature and Trails

The green-marked hiking trail from Krahulov to Stáj passes through the municipality of Kamenice. The red-marked hiking trail from Čeřínek to Třebíč runs along the western edge of Kamenice’s cadastral area and mostly follows the Jihlava valley. The Prosenka natural monument lies within the municipality of Kamenice.

Geographical Location

Kamenice lies approximately 18 kilometres east of Jihlava. Public transport connections from Kamenice are provided by ICOM transport, with services to Jihlava, Velká Bíteš, Brno, Luka nad Jihlavou, Měřín, Velké Meziříčí and Bransouze, and by TRADO–BUS, with services to Třebíč.

Events and Crafts

The Kamenická svatojakubská pouť pilgrimage offers open monuments and art workshops. The Keramika U slunečních hodin studio occasionally opens its premises to individual and group visitors, as well as for creative workshops.

The Kamenický pivovar MadCat brewery is located in a former cooperative distillery building dating from 1912, which was saved and converted into a modern craft brewery in 2018. The brewery offers guided brewery tours with tastings directly from its storage tanks.

Further Destinations

Further destinations: Arnolec, Kostelec, Černíč, Rybné, Stonařov, Jihlava, Krahulčí and Stáj.

For the higher-level travel overview: Jihlava District.