Kutna Hora guide
The town of Kutná Hora is located in the Central Bohemian Region and is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In the Middle Ages, it was one of the most important royal cities, mainly due to silver mining. The number of permanent residents is about 21,000.
Accommodation
In Kutná Hora and the surrounding area there are about 40 accommodation offers, mostly guesthouses and hotels such as Pension Bed & Breakfast, Pension U Hradku or Hotel U Kata right in the city center. Next to Ossuary in Sedlec you will find the hotel MuzeumLega.
History
Kutná Hora has a very rich history. Evidence of silver mining and processing dates back to the 13th century, when rumors of the possibility of enrichment brought to these parts many new settlers, especially from the adjacent German-speaking areas. The turning point for the city was the year 1300, when King Wenceslas II. granted the settlements a legal document which set out all the organizational and technical conditions necessary for the operation of the mine. Shortly after 1300, the central mint of the Czech state was relocated to Kutná Hora and the Prague groschen was minted there. In the middle of the 15th century, the city was hit by 2 devastating fires and mining activity declined greatly. During the reign of Vladislav Jagiellonsky, mining was fully resumed. After 1530, the yield of the mine began to decline again, later the Prague groschen stopped mining here and mining stopped being profitable here due to the supply of silver from South America. At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, new attempts were made to open new mining deposits, but the new veins were not very profitable and required high operating costs. Kutná Hora also played an important role during the national revival - Josef Kajetán Tyl was born here, Karel Havlíček Borovský also worked here and many national associations were formed here. In 1995, the city was ceremoniously inscribed on the UNESCO list.
Monuments and interesting places
In Kutná Hora you will find many monuments and interesting places that we can definitely recommend to visit, we choose from the most interesting:
Church of St. Barbora (Saint Barbara is the patron of miners) - a Roman Catholic branch church, the construction of which began in 1388, is a real gem of late Gothic
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist - a unique UNESCO monument, in which there are rare artistic monuments, such as paintings by P. Brandl
Constance - a former part of the Cistercian abbey in Sedlec, the decoration of the underground chapel of the cemetery church of All Saints is made up almost exclusively of human remains
Hrádek - Czech Museum of Silver and Medieval Mine - here you will get acquainted with the history of silver mining and look directly at the mine of St. Jiří
Vlašský dvůr - a former royal mint, a national cultural monument of pan-European significance with a thousand-year history
Former Cistercian monastery - the first Cistercian monastery in Bohemia, on whose land silver was found
Tyl House - birth house of J. K. Tyl - creator of the text of the Czech national anthem
Transport
You can easily get to the city by train, bus or car.
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