Kněževes: Hotels and Accommodation

A blue-marked hiking trail runs directly through Kněževes, passing through Olešnice, Veselka, Kněževes, Studenec, Svojanov and Bystré before continuing to Dalečín. The Svojanovsko educational trail also begins in Kněževes and leads from there through Dolní Lhota and Svojanov to Rohozná. A yellow-marked hiking trail leads north from Kněževes through the Panský les forest to the settlement of Dolní Lhota.

Cycling routes

The two local cycling routes cross in Kněževes. Local cycling route 5085 passes through Kněževes from Pustá Rybná, Lačnov, Korouhev, Jedlová and Kněževes, continuing via Ústup and Sulíkov to Rudka u Kunštátu. Cycling route 5086 leads from Svojanov via Hutě, Jobova Lhota, Kněževes, Olešnice, Křtěnov and Hodonín to Nedvědice.

A major cycling route leads from Kněževes to Kunštát along the old Imperial Road. The cycling routes follow existing dedicated paths and lower-class roads with low traffic volumes.

Nature

The V Jezdinách nature monument is located within the administrative area of Kněževes. V Jezdinách protects a unique landscape complex of a cultural landscape of regional importance, with high ecological and aesthetic value. V Jezdinách is particularly significant because six orchid species occur there.

Kněževes is connected for tourism to the extensive areas of the Údolí Křetínky, Svratecká hornatina and Halasovo Kunštátsko nature parks.

Culture

The settlement of Veselka in the municipality of Kněževes is designated as a protected village heritage zone under ÚSKP number 2333. The Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene is located in Kněževes. A Baroque stone wayside shrine also stands in Kněževes: it has the form of a tall shaft with a stone cross and a figure of Christ; the year 1780 is inscribed on the square base.

The Chapel of Saint Florian in Kněževes is a small chapel with a square floor plan and rounded corners, a round-arched entrance and a four-sided bell tower on the helmet-shaped roof.

The Church of Saint James the Greater in Kněževes is a single-nave church of older origin with elaborate Baroque articulation, a laterally set, shallow-dome-vaulted chancel and an apse. A tower with an onion dome stands on the north side of the chancel, and the nave has a groin vault. The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Kněževes is a Baroque church incorporating some older masonry. The nave has a flat ceiling and a wooden three-part gallery, while the elongated presbytery is vaulted with two groin-vault bays.

In front of the parish house on the village square stands a Baroque stone Marian column with a statue of the Immaculate Conception on a prismatic base with a composite capital. The granite fountain dating from 1684, with rosette reliefs on the basin walls, stood at the château in Stránecká Zhoř until 2013 and is now installed in Kněževes in disassembled condition. Kněževes also contains a small agricultural homestead complex that originally served as an inn and, as the village’s last surviving wooden house, retains numerous authentic details. A high-quality statue of Saint John of Nepomuk probably dates from around the middle of the 19th century; the restoration year 1891 is inscribed on the pedestal.

More local pages

Křtěnov, Horní Poříčí, Rozsíčka, Lazinov, Olešnice Na Moravě, Kunštát, Prostřední Poříčí, Ústup

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