Lom Chlum, Natural monument in Dolní Lomnice, Czech Republic

Lom Chlum is a protected natural area in Dolní Lomnice that covers 8.15 hectares and includes a flooded former quarry. This submerged excavation site now provides habitat for frogs, toads, snakes, and other wildlife that thrive in and around standing water.

The site operated as an active stone quarry until the early 1960s, when extraction stopped and the land sat dormant. A sculptor named Slavoj Nejdl and a graphic artist named Vratislav Hlavatý then purchased the property and transformed it for artistic and conservation purposes.

Sculptor Slavoj Nejdl and poster artist Vratislav Hlavatý rebuilt the quarry's abandoned buildings and forge into a hacienda with a terrace facing the flooded pit, where a circle of well-known artists met. From the late 1960s Bohumil Hrabal visited, and he later placed a millionaire's luxury hotel, run by Jan Dítě, at this quarry in his novel I Served the King of England.

The area is accessible via walking paths where visitors can observe local wildlife and natural features throughout the site. Visiting at different seasons offers varying perspectives, as the habitats and the animals that occupy them shift with weather and temperature changes.

Bohumil Hrabal began visiting the quarry in the late 1960s and later placed a luxury hotel owned by the millionaire Jan Dítě there in his novella I Served the King of England. Guests were lowered into the water on a rope running over a pulley, and remnants of the mining machinery still stood on the site.