| Bohostice | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Central Bohemian |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Příbram |
| Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
| Coordinates: | 49.6022°N 14.1381°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1386 |
| Area Total Km2: | 20.90 |
| Elevation M: | 417 |
| Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 208 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 262 31 |
Bohostice is a municipality and village in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
The village of Kamenná is an administrative part of Bohostice.
The origin of the name is unsure. The initial name of the village was probably Bohumstice and was derived from the personal Bohumest, meaning "the village of Bohumest's people".[2]
Bohostice is located about 13km (08miles) southeast of Příbram and 49km (30miles) south of Prague. It lies in the Benešov Uplands. The highest point is the hill Hřebeny at 544m (1,785feet) above sea level. The municipality is situated on the shore of the Orlík Reservoir, built on the Vltava River.
The stream Bohostický potok flows through the municipality. There is the Bohostice Nature Monument along the stream, protected due to the occurrence of the dusky large blue. It was declared in 2013.[3]
The first written mention of Bohostice is from 1386.[4]
There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.
On the Chlumec hill is a Jewish cemetery. It is a well-preserved small village cemetery with valuable, mostly Neoclassical gravestones and several remarkable younger stelae of the traditional type from the mid-19th century.[5]
The Bohostice Castle was built in the mid-18th century and, then it was rebuilt in the 19th century. Due to insensitive modifications in the 1980s, the monument protection of the building was cancelled.[6]
The remains of the Church of St. Stephen from 1352 in the former village of Těchnice still stands below the reservoir surface. It was flooded during the construction of the dam in 1960.[7]