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🇨🇿 Kingdom Come Deliverance

The fantastic PC game Kingdom Come Deliverance was the motivation for this two-day bike tour. KCD bike tour.kmz (based on the map from edgeoftheworld.cz) shows which parts of the game world you will see.

But even non-players will enjoy the bike ride through the beautiful, scarcely populated and untouristed landscape. A wonderful off-the-beaten-path experience.

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⏱️ 1-2 days 📅 June 2022

Start: 🚉 Český Šternberk zastávka, 2:00h by train from Prague

Dest.: 🚉 Týnec n. Sázavou, 1:30h by train from Prague

Website GPX Distance Ascend Net Ascend
Day 1: Chocerady bikerouter.de 41.5 km 507 hm -24 hm
Day 2: Týnec nad Sázavou bikerouter.de 25.5 km 220 hm -11 hm

Day 0: Prague

The "Golden City" became one of the most important cities under Charles IV. Today it is one of the most beautiful European cities.

Sights

There are plenty of sights as well as guide books, blogs and websites describing them.

Food and accommodation

Even though there are plenty of eating places in the city, there are many tourist traps (multi-language menus are a bad sign). A good restaurant in the city is Restaurace Pod Petřínem1. You can also head out to the neighborhood of Žižkov which is less-touristy. Here you will find e.g. the restaurant U Sadu2.

The Exe City Park3 hotel is conveniently located across the street from the main station, offers nice rooms and good breakfast. Bicycle storage: In an empty (locked) conference room.

Day 1: Český Šternberk - Chocerady

Start with a "warm-up" by cylcing up to Český Šternberk Castle before entering the game world.

East of the train station you have to bypass a bar gate. For the next kilometer, the way is quite rocky - but still manageable with regular bikes. If you still want to avoid this stretch (or shorten the route) you can exit the train at Rataje n.Sáz.zast or Rataje n.Sáz.-Ivaň.

If you want to do a day-trip, take a train from Chocerady back to Prague (1.5 hours).

Sights

Food and accommodation

While it's great that the area is untouristed, finding a place to eat can be tricky. You can have lunch at Sázavská Kozlovna5 near the train station in Sázava and I recommend going for dinner in Chocerady before ~19:00h (e.g. in Hospůdka Pod Hrádkem6).

Also accommodations are sparse - but fortunately Hotel Ostende7 offers good value for the price. Bicycle storage: In the courtyard.

Day 2: Chocerady - Týnec nad Sázavou

Another day, another (optional) "warm-up" climb to a Castle. After that, you're ready to follow the gentle curves of the Sázava river.

Sights

Food

With more populated places along the route, the number of restaurants increases. Be aware though, that your favorite might be closed.

Alternative tour

Initially I planned to overnight in Rataje nad Sázavou, but had to change due to a lack of accommodations.

What about Přibyslavice?

A thriving village in "From the Ashes" - today a few ruins: Not much is left of Přibyslavice. If you are a die-hard KCD fan, feel free to extend the tour (e.g. from Stříbrná Skalice). Keep in mind: Since I did not go there, I don't know the quality of the road.

The past of the extinct settlement of Přibyslavice

Translated from hradec1.cz🇨🇿 :

An interesting part of history are the stories of extinct villages. Stories mostly shortened and twisted over time, yet enticing with their veiled secrets. One such story is brought to us by the extinct settlement of Přibyslavice, located about two kilometers north of Stříbrná Skalica.

Torso of buildings To date, only torso of brick buildings last inhabited during the Second World War have been preserved in Přibyslavice.

Written sources We know roughly the following about the past of Přibyslavice (ie I am based on an article by S. Hendrychová published in Sázavsko No. 13, I only add my own findings in some places):

  • 1436 - they are the property of the Sázava Monastery (believes J. Kurka in his work from 1914 - Archdeaconry of Kouřim, Boleslav, Hradec Králové and Litomyšl Diocese)
  • 1525 - they are pledged to the lord of Šellenberk, the holder of the Komorní Hrádek estate (the data comes from the chronicle of Stříbrná Skalica, which, however, as one of the oldest in the region began to appear at the beginning of the 18th century, ie 200 years later than the above )
  • 1557 - the first unquestionable mention of the village as part of the property of the Komorní Hrádek estate
  • 1654 - two farmers (Berní rula) farm in Přibyslavice
  • 1697 - they become the property of the Kounice estate in the middle of the 18th century - one farmer farms in the village (Tereziánský cadastre)
  • 1761 - Duchess Maria Theresa of Savoy buys the estate of Kounice and Přibyslavice and the village thus becomes part of the Černokostelec estate, to which the town of Skalice has belonged since the 16th century, of which Přibyslavice became a part in the middle of the 19th century
  • mid-19th century - farmed here in No. 82 J. Vysušil (information given in the Indication sketch - J. Wisuschil)
  • 2nd half of the 19th century - the Buriánek family farms here. Sometimes during this period there is a complete reconstruction of the court, which is evident from the map of the stable cadastre from 1842, where the layout of buildings is completely different from the situation still preserved in the field and the situation recorded in the current cadastre (see plan at the end of the article). This change is also captured in the map of the land cadastre, where both the original state and the current state are visible. The reconstruction creates two descriptive numbers: no. 82 and no. 184.
  • 1900 - Suicide of Antonín Buriánek, after which the Buriánek family leaves Přibyslavice and the beginning of the decline of Přibyslavice as a peasant homestead begins. Part of the family of Antonín's brother František then appears in the village of Prusice, a few kilometers away, where he starts farming in No. 2. This is where my wife's mother, née Buriánková, comes from. My wife and my children are descendants of the Buriánky family from Přibyslavice. since the beginning of the 20th century, only forest and forest workers have lived here
  • 1906 - in no. 184 lives of Václav Hirš's family (until 1930)
  • 1922 - dies in no. 82 forest guard Josef Malík
  • 1928 - no. 82 referred to as the princely grove - gamekeeper Alois Navrátil
  • 1928 - no. 184 referred to as the prince's house
  • 1931 - in no. 184 lives the family of František Pavel
  • 1932 - the last mention in the registers of no. 82 during World War II they live in Přibyslavice Jón
  • 1945 - František Kroupa dies - the last person with permanent residence in Přibyslavice, which does not mean that he actually had to live here
  • today - property of the School Forest Enterprise with its registered office in Kostelec n. No. l.

As can be seen from the list of data, we have not preserved much about this extinct medieval village, later the settlement and recently in solitude, so it is necessary to constantly remember these fragments. If you would like to learn more about Přibyslavice, get the publication Sázavsko number 13, where the above-mentioned article by Soni Hendrychová is published, or visit the current Přibyslavice straight away. One never knows whether he will see what he sees today in a few years. An example is the experience of the author of the article, who did the first prospection of Přibyslavice in 2006, when it could be noticed in the field disproportionately more than a year later, when the forest road passing through the settlement was extended from two to four meters and objects a year ago buried.

  1. Restaurace Pod Petřínem, Hellichova 5, 118 00 Malá Strana ↩

  2. U Sadu, Škroupovo nám. 1282/5, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov ↩

  3. Exe City Park, Opletalova 960/33, 110 00 Nové Město ↩

  4. Was closed - if you want to see the inside, check for opening hours ↩↩

  5. Sázavská Kozlovna, Gen. Vedrala Sázavského 420, 285 06 Sázava ↩

  6. Hospůdka Pod Hrádkem, Chocerady 4, 257 24 Chocerady ↩

  7. Hotel Ostende, Chocerady 83, 257 24 Chocerady ↩