Bohostice

Bohostice
Municipality
Centre of Bohostice
Flag Coat of arms
Bohostice Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 49°36′8″N 14°8′17″E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Central Bohemian
District	Příbram
First mentioned	1386
Area
• Total	20.90 km^2 (8.07 sq mi)
Elevation	417 m (1,368 ft)
Population  (2024-01-01)[1]
• Total	208
• Density	10.0/km^2 (26/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	262 31
Website	www.bohostice.cz

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

Administrative division

Bohostice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2]

• Bohostice (195)
• Kamenná (14)

Etymology

The origin of the name is unsure. The initial name of the village was probably Bohumstice and was derived from the personal Bohumest, meaning "the village of Bohumest's people".[3]

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 Hřebeny at 544 m (1,785 ft) above sea level. The municipality is situated on the shore of the Orlík Reservoir, built on the Vltava River.

The stream Bohostický potok flows through the municipality. There is the Bohostice Nature Monument along the stream, protected due to the occurrence of the dusky large blue. It was declared in 2013.[4]

History

The first written mention of Bohostice is from 1386.[5]

Demographics

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1869 1,014 —     1880 911 −10.2% 1890 846 −7.1% 1900 829 −2.0% 1910 728 −12.2%	Year Pop. ±% 1921 648 −11.0% 1930 583 −10.0% 1950 366 −37.2% 1961 356 −2.7% 1970 305 −14.3%	Year Pop. ±% 1980 256 −16.1% 1991 191 −25.4% 2001 194 +1.6% 2011 202 +4.1% 2021 209 +3.5%
Source: Censuses[6][7]

Transport

The village of Kamenná

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

Sights

On the Chlumec hill 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.[8]

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.[9]

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.[10]

References

1. "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2024". Czech Statistical Office. 2024-05-17.
2. "Public Census 2021 – basic data". Public Database (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2022.
3. Profous, Antonín (1947). Místní jména v Čechách I: A–H (in Czech). p. 112.
4. "Přibudou tři nová chráněná území v okrese" (in Czech). Deník.cz. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
5. "Úplné znění územního plánu obce Bohostice: Textová část" (in Czech). Obec Bohostice. March 2020. p. 41. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
6. "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2015-12-21.
7. "Population Census 2021: Population by sex". Public Database. Czech Statistical Office. 2021-03-27.
8. "Židovský hřbitov" (in Czech). National Heritage Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
9. "Zámek" (in Czech). National Heritage Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
10. "Kostel sv. Štěpána". znicenekostely.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-08-22.

External links

• Official website