Zelenecká Lhota – Calvary, Chapel and Ryba Pond

Zelenecká Lhota combines stone memorial sites, religious landmarks and a landscape in which Ryba Pond and several mapped mountains create distinctive accents. If you would like to combine cultural history with a rural setting on your trip, you will find clearly distinguishable points of interest here: the Boží muka Calvary group, the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, the cemetery on Příhon and a distinctive fruit-drying house.

Boží muka: a monument with traces from several eras

The stone Boží muka Calvary group in Zelenecká Lhota was erected in 1773 at the expense of the municipality. Linden trees were first planted around the group in 1775. In 2008, it was taken away for restoration; on 12 September 2009, it was ceremonially reconsecrated. A further restoration took place in 2018–2019 after the statue of the Virgin Mary was damaged during an attempted theft.

Chapel, cemetery and local cultural history

The Chapel of the Holy Trinity was built in 1910. A memorial plaque commemorating the soldiers who fell in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 is located on the chapel. A pilgrimage is celebrated in Zelenecká Lhota on the Feast of the Holy Trinity. The cemetery on Příhon was built in 1908 and consecrated on 28 June 1908. Social life also has a documented historical connection: an amateur theater group was founded in Zelenecká Lhota in 1919. This gives you a picture of the village in which religious buildings, commemorative culture and community traditions stand side by side.

Ryba Pond and the surrounding landscape

Ryba Pond lies below Zelenecká Lhota in the valley of the Bukovinský Stream and covers more than 4 hectares. As an irrigation reservoir for the JZD agricultural cooperative, it serves an agricultural function in the countryside; at the same time, it serves local residents and people from the surrounding area as a recreational site in the valley. In the surroundings of Zelenecká Lhota, Střelečská hůra and Přivýšina are mapped as mountains. In the wider regional area, Tábor and U Borku [Záhornice u Městce Králové] are mapped as mountains; Valdštejn is mapped there as a church. At the pond, agricultural use and recreation come together with the valley, its water surface and the surrounding mountains. For your travel planning, this creates a varied alternation between waterscapes, mountain scenery and regional cultural history in the vicinity of Zelenecká Lhota.

A rare agricultural building type

The cadastral area of Zelenecká Lhota contains a fruit-drying house that is considered a distinctive agricultural building type. It is a protected immovable cultural monument and a relatively rare type of building from fruit-growing regions. Together with the religious sites, it broadens the view of Zelenecká Lhota to include an aspect of rural architectural and economic history.

More places for your research

If you would like to compare further destinations in addition to Zelenecká Lhota, you can continue your research with Jeřice, Lískovice, Podkost, Bílsko U Hořic, Valdice, Sedliště, Miletin and Bříšťany.

For the higher-level travel overview: Jičín District.