Klokočka

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Klokočka
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Klokočka (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Středočeský kraj
District : Mladá Boleslav
Municipality : Bakov nad Jizerou
Geographic location : 50 ° 30 '  N , 14 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '30 "  N , 14 ° 54' 32"  E
Height: 222  m nm
Residents : 7 (2001)
Postal code : 294 01
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Street: Ptýrov - Bakov nad Jizerou

Klokočka is a district of the city of Bakov nad Jizerou in the Czech Republic . It is located about 3.7 kilometers northwest of the city in the valley of the Rokytka brook and consists of a baroque ensemble of buildings with a chapel and forester's house. The buildings surround a cold mineral spring , which is considered to be medicinal. The name Klokočka is derived from a pimpernut ( Klokoč in Czech ) that originally grew above the spring. Klokočka has seven permanent residents.

Chapel of St. Stapinus above the spring in Klokočka

history

Directly above the outlet of the water, Countess Marie Margarethe von Waldstein had a stone chapel built in place of an older wooden building in the years 1724–30 and consecrated to St. Stapinus , the patron saint of gout sufferers. The consecration took place on July 4th, the day of St. Procopius ; the church therefore bears the popular name Prokop Chapel. The elliptical building with a semicircular presbytery has a baroque altar from 1742 with a picture of St. Stapinus and rococo side altars from 1794. On the terrace that covers the spring there are two statues of saints Ivan and John Nepomuk .

Also in the 1720s, a small spa was built near the source . The bathroom was in operation until the end of the 18th century, when it went out of fashion and was closed. The main building has served as a forester's house since 1832 . In 1843 it was redesigned in the classicism style.

A section of the wooded, humid valley of the Bělá brook, which naturally meanders here, has been under nature protection as the Klokočka National Natural Monument since 1956 . Somewhat away from the settlement, one of the two Czech sites of the Siberian gold piston is protected here on 2.37 hectares . A large population of the bellied diaper snail also settles here . Both species are considered glacial relics at this location .

The forest house and the chapel can be reached on a side road from Bakov or Ptýrov. The spring is open to the public and drinking water can be taken. There are no marked paths through the reserve.

literature

  • Chráněná území České Republiky , vol. 1. Editor: Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Prague 1996. ISBN 80-902132-0-0 (description of the nature reserve)

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