Watermill in Hoslovice, Watermill in Hoslovice, Czech Republic.
The Watermill in Hoslovice is a single-wheel mill whose original mill room is joined to the living quarters, which contain a black kitchen. Its walls are stone and its roof is covered with thatch; a shed and stables with a barn stand in the grounds, and a small pond with a roughly 150-metre millrace lies at the rear.
The first written record of the mill is in the Berní rula tax register of 1654; fragmentary mentions place the building's origin as far back as the founding of Hoslovice. It has been protected as a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 2008 and is now part of the collections of the Museum of the Central Pootaví in Strakonice.
The mill is part of the exhibition of the Museum of the Central Pootaví in Strakonice. It hosts folk-culture events through the year, including harvest celebrations, bread baking and workshops, and has served as a filming location for Czech fairy-tale films such as Kouzla králů (2008), Vodník a Karolínka (2010) and Tři bratři (2014).
The mill stands in Hoslovice, in the Strakonice district of South Bohemia. A car park was created at the mill in 2025 and the access road was repaired. The grounds are open to the public from April to October, Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 to 16:00, and daily until 17:00 in the June–August high season.
The mill's roof is covered with thatch, not wooden tiles, and its walls are stone; the site also holds a shed and stables with a barn. A pond at the rear feeds a millrace about 150 metres long. The mill has appeared in Czech fairy-tale films, including Kouzla králů (2008), Vodník a Karolínka (2010) and Tři bratři (2014).
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