Location: Vyssi Brod
Top Things to do in Vyssi Brod
What to do and see in Vyssi Brod, Czech Republic: The Best Places and Tips
Vyšší Brod (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvɪʃiː ˈbrot] German: Hohenfurth) is a small town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 2,600 inhabitants and it is the southernmost municipality in the Czech Republic. Vyšší Brod Monastery, an important historic landmark, is located in the town. The city has many tourists attractions like the Cistercian cloister, the Lake Lipno which connects to the Vltava River (which is one of the most popular canoeing route in the Czech Republic) and the historical town center.
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1. Cistercian Abbey Vyssi Brod
Overall Ratings
4 based on 38 reviews
Reviewed By DeanMurphy2020 - Orlando, Florida
The Cistercian Monastery in Vyssi Brod is near the surging tourist town of Cesky Krumlov. The monastery dates to mid-13th century and is considered the spiritual center of South Bohemia. As a writer, I found the Baroque-era library with leather-bound books (some were bound manuscripts, meaning handwritten). Encompassed in several buildings there is also a museum and art gallery. Touring the buildings brings to mind that you enter the world of the Dark Ages. I was on an organized tour and the Czech guide translated what the monastery staffer revealed, though it’s possible to have a self-guided tour. This attraction is not wheelchair accessible, and there are stairs. It may not be an attraction worth a special trip, but if you’re passing through the village, I highly recommend exploring items of unfathomable age. Gratefully, this area was not destroyed in World War II.
2. Ingetour - Day Tours
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 17 reviews
Reviewed By kcashbourne - Crich, United Kingdom
We had taken a trip by raft a couple of days earlier from Cesky Kumlov but this was a superior trip.
This time my husband and I rented a canoe and our 16 year old son rented a kayak (complete with helmet and buoyancy aid).
We had decided on the 5 hour trip to Nahorany. There are shorter and longer trips available.
There were three weirs to negotiate, having managed 5 weirs previously I wasn't concerned but the first weir was a bit of a surprise! We had been told that we could take the boats down all the weirs but the first weir was a sheer drop of around 3 feet. I think this would have been fine in a raft but not in a canoe.
There are plenty of places to stop off en route for beer (the obligatory Czech drink) and snacks. We stopped on the outskirts of Rozmberk nad Vltavou, with its beautiful castle on the hill and relaxed at a snack bar at the side of the river.
After Rozmberk there are no more weirs and you can enjoy travelling through the Forests to Nahorany. The trip took around 5 hours including an hour for lunch.
On arrival at Camp U Fika at Nahorany you are greeted by very helpful staff, helping you with the boats and indicating where the bus will pick you up to take you back to Vyssi Brod.
3. Postal Museum
Overall Ratings
5 based on 4 reviews
Reviewed By d_titzova - Orlová
The Postal Museum is located within the Cistercian Monastery in Vyšší Brod (founded in 1259). Museum opened in 1976 and dedicated to postal history in Czech from 1526 to the present times. Introduces the evolution of postal servis with many autentic objects, telecommunications equipment and unique collection of carriages.
4. Postal Museum Vyssi Brod
Overall Ratings
4 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
In this museum are on display the history of the post since the 16th Century till today: post-officers uniforms, boards, boxes, cases, postal maps, post offices equipment, inkpots, lights, writing machines, postal and stamping machines, postal carriages and cars models. Telegraph and telephone from the half of the 19th Century till today, historical telegraph machines, teleprinters, telephones, manual telephones and exchanges, the first automatic telephones. Post marks (as well as post marks from Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic), color inspections, press methods. Wagons and carriages: historical wagons and carriages collection, postal coach and package wagons, postal sleighs, representative carriages, carriage harnesses.
5. Funeral Chapel of St. Anna
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
Funeral chapel of St. Anna with the monastic cemetery at the Cistercian Abbey in to Vyšší Brod. The chapel's interior is closed to the public, lots of epitaphs and votifs at the chapel's exterior.
6. Chapel of St. Joseph
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
Located across the street àof therear of the monasterial complex. Originally chapel of St. Elizabeth. The original Chapel St. Elizabeth was anno 1347 under the Superintendent of the monastery founded by Petr I z Rožmberk. In 1678 rebuilt in Baroque: Church in the North but also the South of the chapel in longitudinal axis changed 90 degrees, the chapel received a new façade and a roof with Flèche. The chapel was used until secularistation in 1785 and later used as a granary. Under Abbot Isidor Teutscher restored 1816 and rededicated to St. Joseph
7. Town Hall
Overall Ratings
3 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
The small building in the middle of the Park at the square was founded in 1525, three years before promotion of the Centre of monastic estates in the city. After adjustments in 1725 and in 1832 it got its contemporary double-shape in 1883 (Ing. František Karel). Currently it houses the tourist information centre where one can gather many leaflets and info about the city and its region. South of the town hall a stone Fountain with a statue dated 1737 with pedestal of St Floris, Northern late Gothic stone pillory from the 17th century (on the pillory the inscription 1788), as well as a Tuscan column with a statue of St. Barbara (stood previous in the 18th century on the nearby cemetery of the St Bartholomew church).
8. Dean Church of St. Bartholomew
Overall Ratings
3 based on 1 reviews
Reviewed By vakantiejozef - Olen, Belgium
In Czech: Farní kostel sv Bartoloměje. Early-Gothic, originally founded 1259, modified 16th century, rebuilt 17th and 21st century. Surrounded by the cemetery. Anno 1264 under patronage of Cistercian monastery. Damaged in the Hussite war, restored 16th century. 1643 Renovated again and concluded the ship with a wooden ceiling. 1761 acquired a new baroque altar, a wooden altar hanging between pillars, on the side pillars statues of St. Bernard and St Benedict. Altar painting (1858). North side altar is a statue of Christ,18th century. New church-tower 1864. Electric light was introduced in 1905. The building rectory on the door beam the (date 1489), being rebuilt in the year 1658. 1th of May 1747 a "statue of Wiezen” from Stein
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