Hosín is a municipality and village in

České Budějovice District České Budějovice District ( cs, okres České Budějovice) is a district ('' okres'') within the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is České Budějovice. Complete list of municipalities Adamov - Bečice - Borek - Bor ...

in the South Bohemian Region of the

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. It has about 900 inhabitants. Hosín lies approximately north of České Budějovice and south of

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

Administrative parts

The village of Dobřejovice is an administrative part of Hosín.

History

The first written mention of Hosín is from 1330.

Sights

The main landmark is the Church of the Saints Peter and Paul. The original was built in the 11th or 12th century. In the 13th century, when this sacral building was no longer sufficient for its spatial capacity, a new, early Gothic church was built, in which the former church was incorporated as a

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. In the 1890s, the church was extended and rebuilt in the Neo-Romanesque style. Other sights include: *

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

rectory from the 18th century *Stone wayside shrine from 1636 along the road towards

Hluboká nad Vltavou Hluboká nad Vltavou (; until 1885 ''Podhrad'', german: Frauenberg) is a town in České Budějovice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,400 inhabitants. The town is known for the Hluboká Castle. Administra ...

, with the coat-of-arms of the former estate owner,

Baltasar Marradas Don Baltasar de Marradas et Vique or Maradas (28 November 1560, Valencia – 12 August 1638, Prague) was a Spanish nobleman, imperial field marshal during the Thirty Years' War and governor of Bohemia. Life :es:Baltasar_de_Marradas_y_Vich, Ba ...

*Former china clay mine Orty, a natural monument *Memorial to those killed in

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*Houses built in the Folk Baroque style

References

Villages in České Budějovice District {{SouthBohemia-geo-stub