Obora Holedná, Game reserve in Brno, Czech Republic
Obora Holedná is a 327-hectare woodland area situated between three Brno districts, featuring a network of marked hiking trails and viewing areas. The reserve is managed by the city's forestry authority and contains sections with wild boars, fallow deer, and mouflon in both open and enclosed zones.
The reserve is named after Holedná hill (391 m). Near its summit, a faint rampart encloses about 9 ha; radiocarbon dating of burnt posts placed it around 1100 BC, in the Late Bronze Age, and its purpose remains unknown. Boundary stones dated 1599 (one source gives 1589) mark the former limits of Kohoutovice, Jundrov and the Staré Brno convent.
The reserve is named after Holedná hill (391 m). Near the U Jezírka ponds stands a memorial to forester Rudolf Gola, who landscaped the ponds and spring in the 1960s. Boundary stones marked 1599 (one source gives 1589) with the letters SA, SM and KK stand along the path from Vrbovec pond to the U Jezírka signpost.
The reserve is open year-round with free entry. Three marked hiking routes of differing difficulty cross it: blue, yellow and green. A 35-metre lookout tower has stood by the reserve since December 2020, and the interactive trail of 2017 runs past the wild boar enclosure.
Near the Holedná lookout tower by the Komín entrance stands a memorial to Red Army fighter pilot Viktor Kašutin, shot down here in his La-7 during the liberation of Brno in April 1945; the monument is by Miloš Axman and František Kočí.
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