Libuše's valley, Forest park and street in Třebíč, Czech Republic
Libuše's valley is a street and forest park in Třebíč covering about 20 hectares along Stařečský potok, crossed by the railway bridge of the Brno–Jihlava line. Its Domky section, roughly 13 hectares, is laid out as a park with paths, benches and public lighting. The only registered address on the street is the unoccupied Hluchý mlýn.
Pines were planted on the slopes below Kostelíček around 1835, and a path network followed in the next decades. The Třebíč beautification society laid paths above Janův mlýn by 1907, and a stone viewing point was built there in 1935. Architect Josef Kumpán designed Máchovo jezírko in the 1950s.
The Střelnice hall, built in 1852 by master mason Jan Česnek, stood in the northern part of the valley; it burned down in February 1969 and was removed in the 1970s, but its dance floor survives. The floor was restored in 2022 and again serves as an outdoor dance area for dance lessons. A book on the valley, Libušák by Jaroslava Herzánová, was published in 2022.
The park covers about 20 hectares, of which roughly 13 hectares in the Domky part are laid out as parkland. A pedestrian underpass beneath Sucheniova Street, built in 2017, links the Vítězslava Nezvala and Hadlíz junction to the valley and carries the Jihlava–Třebíč–Raabs cycle path. Benches, public lighting and marked paths run along Stařečský potok.
The Střelnice dance floor in the northern part of the valley is the only remnant of a shooting range built by mason Jan Česnek in 1852, where members fired at a slope toward Hluchý mlýn. The building later hosted workers' dances, burned down in February 1969 and was demolished in the 1970s; the floor was restored in 2022 for outdoor dance lessons.
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