Lovčice, Fortified house in Lovčice, Czech Republic

Lovčice is a former fortified house in the village of Lovčice near Kosova Hora, Příbram District. Its remains survive as one irregular building with a saddle roof and a half-hip, now divided into houses No. 1, 15, 16 and 17. Renaissance barrel vaults with ribs are preserved inside houses No. 1 and 15, and the annexes by the northwest gable and northeast side mostly hold staircases to the first floor.

The fortress was founded in the 16th century beside a freehold farmstead. Around 1513 or 1520 Petr Žehart z Nasevrk sold the Lovčice farm to Jan z Pohnání, whose son Jan Lovčický had it entered in the land registers in 1543 and sold it twelve years later to Jan Skákalík z Lovčic. The farm later joined the Kosova Hora estate and from 1866 belonged to the Dobrohošť property of Václav Bořek Dohalský z Dohalic. The fortress itself never appears in written sources; in the second half of the 18th century it decayed, was repaired to house the poor, and was later divided into four houses.

The fortress itself never appears in written records; only the neighbouring farmstead (No. 5) is documented, sold by Petr Žehart z Nasevrk to Jan of Pohnání around 1513 or 1520. In the second half of the 18th century the decaying building was repaired and used to house the poor, and later divided into four separate flats sold as houses No. 1, 15, 16 and 17.

The remains are in houses No. 1, 15, 16 and 17 in Lovčice, a village near Kosova Hora in the Příbram district. The four houses form a single building with an irregular plan and a half-hipped saddle roof; the vaulted interiors survive in No. 1 and 15. They are private homes, so view them from the outside and the adjoining yards.

The fortress itself never appears in written records; only the manor beside it (No. 5) is documented. In the second half of the 18th century it decayed, was repaired to house the poor, then split into flats and sold as four houses, No. 1, 15, 16 and 17.