| Církvice | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Central Bohemian |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kutná Hora |
| Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
| Coordinates: | 49.9456°N 15.335°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1276 |
| Area Total Km2: | 10.12 |
| Elevation M: | 214 |
| Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1337 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 285 33 |
Církvice is a municipality and village in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. The village of Jakub is the municipality is known for the Church of Saint James the Great, which is one of the most valuable Romanesque buildings in the country.
The village of Jakub is an administrative part of Církvice.
The name is derived from cierkev, which was an old Czech term for a wooden church.[2]
Církvice is located about 5km (03miles) east of Kutná Hora and 32km (20miles) west of Pardubice. The villages of Církvice and Jakub are urbanistically merged. The municipality lies in a flat agricultural landscape of the Central Elbe Table lowland. The Klejnárka River flows through the municipality. There are several ponds around the villages.
The first written mention of Církvice is from 1276.[3]
The I/38 road from Jihlava to Kolín passes through the municipality.
Církvice is located on the railway line leading from Kolín to Havlíčkův Brod.
The Church of Saint James the Great in Jakub is one of the most important Romanesque buildings in the country, protected as a national cultural monument. This church was built between 1148 and 1165. Several reconstructions and modifications were made, but in 1872–1874 the church was cleaned of these reconstructions and its purely Romanesque character was restored. The preserved sculptural decoration is also unique and very valuable.[4]
The Church of Saint Lawrence in Církvice was probably built at the end of the 13th century and was first documented in 1352. In the second half of the 17th century, the original Gothic building was baroque rebuilt. Valuable is also the early Baroque rectory.[5]