Battle of Locust Grove

Bohostice is a municipality and village in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

The village of Kamenná is an administrative part of Bohostice.

Geography

Bohostice is located about 13 kilometres (8 mi) southeast of Příbram and 49 km (30 mi) south of Prague. It lies in the Benešov Uplands. The highest point is the hill Studený vrch at 660 metres (2,170 ft) above sea level. It is situated on the shore of the Orlík Reservoir. The highest point is the hill Hřebeny at 544 m (1,785 ft) above sea level, the lowest point is the reservoir level at 350 m (1,150 ft).

The stream Bohostický potok flows through the municipality. Along the stream there is the Bohostice Nature Monument, protected due to the occurrence of the dusky large blue. It was declared in 2013.[2]

History

The first written mention of Bohostice is from 1386.[3]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18691,014—    
1880911−10.2%
1890846−7.1%
1900829−2.0%
1910728−12.2%
YearPop.±%
1921648−11.0%
1930583−10.0%
1950366−37.2%
1961356−2.7%
1970305−14.3%
YearPop.±%
1980256−16.1%
1991191−25.4%
2001194+1.6%
2011202+4.1%
2021209+3.5%
Source: Censuses[4][5]

Transport

The village of Kamenná

There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.

Sights

On the Chlumec hill there is a Jewish cemetery. It is a well-preserved small village cemetery with valuable, mostly Neoclassical gravestones and several remarkable younger stelae of the traditional type from the mid-19th century.[6]

The Bohostice Castle was built in the mid-18th century and, then it was rebuilt in the 19th century. Due to insensitive modifications in the 1980s, the monument protection of the building was cancelled.[7]

The remains of the Church of St. Stephen from 1352 in the former village of Těchnice still stands below the reservoir surface. It was flooded during the construction of the dam in 1960.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2023". Czech Statistical Office. 2023-05-23.
  2. ^ "Přibudou tři nová chráněná území v okrese" (in Czech). Deník.cz. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  3. ^ "Úplné znění územního plánu obce Bohostice: Textová část" (in Czech). Obec Bohostice. March 2020. p. 41. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  4. ^ "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Okres Příbram" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2015-12-21. pp. 1–2.
  5. ^ "Population Census 2021: Population by sex". Public Database. Czech Statistical Office. 2021-03-27.
  6. ^ "Židovský hřbitov" (in Czech). National Heritage Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  7. ^ "Zámek" (in Czech). National Heritage Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  8. ^ "Kostel sv. Štěpána". znicenekostely.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-08-22.

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