Discover Jicineves

Jicineves offers several distinct points of interest when choosing a travel destination: the architectural history of Jičíněves Castle, its chapel, landscape features and protected nature in the surrounding area. If you are looking for hotels in Jicineves, these themes can help you decide what matters for your stay: Baroque architecture, sacred architectural history or nature. One important point for planning is that Jičíněves Castle is not open to the public.

Jičíněves Castle and its architecture

Jičíněves Castle was built for Count František Josef Schlik between 1715 and 1717, based on plans by Jean Baptiste Mathey. The three-storey Baroque building has a mansard roof and a small turret. A mansard roof is divided into sections with different pitches; at the castle, this roof form complements the three storeys, while the turret rounds out its silhouette. Jičíněves Castle is set in an extensive English landscape park with numerous rare and notable trees.

The castle chapel: design and history

The Jičíněves Castle Chapel is a single-nave building with a rectangular floor plan and a presbytery. Single-nave means that the interior has just one nave; the presbytery is the altar area adjoining it. The chapel was added to the north side of the castle in 1730 and dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua and the Holy Cross. It was declared open to the public in 1776. Its construction and dedication, followed by its later declaration, mark distinct historical milestones. Chronologically, the chapel was added after the castle was built between 1715 and 1717; the 1776 declaration was a further, later milestone. If you are planning to visit the chapel, check current visiting arrangements in advance.

Landscape features and directions

A local watercourse running through Jičíněves feeds Zámecký rybník on the eastern edge of the village; the pond lies south of Jičíněves Castle. Historically, an avenue of poplar trees connected the castle with Kopidlno. The statue “socha sv. Václava” is made of light sandstone and stands on a solid plinth. It is about 170 metres from the main Jičín–Kopidlno road, on the left-hand side when travelling towards Keteň. While the avenue of poplar trees marks a historic connection to Kopidlno, the statue’s location is described in relation to the main road and the direction of Keteň.

Protected nature in the surrounding area

The Natura 2000 site “Jičíněves - zámek” protects the lesser horseshoe bat. The protected natural monument Chyjická stráň lies in the wider area around Jicineves, between Chyjice and Dolany. It provides a habitat for protected bird and plant species, including the gold lily and the white helleborine. About 96 per cent of the area consists of oak-hornbeam forests, and about 3 per cent of ash-alder floodplain forests. The nature sites differ in scale: the lesser horseshoe bat is the focus of the Natura 2000 site, while Chyjická stráň is also characterised by its location, species and forest proportions.

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