DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0371

The importance of historic ferry sites for the tourism along the middle section of the Labe River (Czech Republic)

Marek Havlíček, Ivo Dostál, Josef Svoboda

Ferries on the larger rivers have historically played an important role in the daily lives of the local communities, but many were also important to travellers and traders from more distant destinations. The locations of ferries have been recorded on the basis of old topographical maps from the 1760s, 1840s, 1880s and 1950s. This paper focuses on the historical ferry sites along the middle section of the Labe river between Kolín and Mělník. The aim of the work was to evaluate the historical significance of the ferries on the selected section, to trace the remains of the related buildings and to assess the possibilities of their usefulness for contemporary tourism. The key issue is the accessibility of the ferry sites to the hiking and cycling marked routes, where it is possible to create e.g. an information panel about the once operated ferry in a given place. The highest potential for further utilisation have the surviving buildings at the ferries, e.g. ferry houses, roadside inns, etc.

Klíčová slova: river ferry, Labe river, old topographic maps, tourism

stránky: 371-375, Publikováno: 2022, online: 2022