Roztoky is a municipality and village in

Rakovník District Rakovník District () is a district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Rakovník. Administrative division Rakovník District is formed by only one administrative district of municipality with extended ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the

Berounka The Berounka () is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Vltava River. It flows through the Plzeň Region, Plzeň and Central Bohemian Region, Central Bohemian regions to Prague. It is formed by the confluence of the Mže and Radbu ...

River.

Etymology

The name is derived from , i.e. 'divided

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

'. It is a common Czech geographical name for places founded at the confluence of a smaller stream with a river.

Geography

Roztoky is located about southeast of Rakovník and west of Prague. It lies in the Křivoklát Highlands. The highest point is the hill Špička at above sea level. The village is situated in the meander of the

River. The entire municipal territory lies within the Křivoklátsko Landscape Protected Area.

History

The first written mention of Roztoky is from 1406. It was founded around 1370. The village began to develop in 1824, when Counts of Fürstenberg established ironworks here.

Demographics

Transport

Roztoky is located on the railway line Beroun–Rakovník.

Sights

A valuable building is the Leontýn Castle, located in the woods south of the village. It was originally a Neoclassical hunting lodge from the beginning of the 19th century, extended and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style in the second half of the 19th century. Next to the castle is a neo-Gothic chapel of Saint Wenceslaus from 1866 and a landscape park. Today, the castle houses a social care institution for the mentally disabled. A cultural monument is the Karlov Farmyard. It is a late Baroque farmyard with an unusual circular floor plan. It was founded in 1779 in the woods south of the Roztoky village. Soon after, a small settlement arose around it. Today, the farmyard is privately owned and is still used for agricultural purposes.

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