| Svatý Mikuláš | |
| 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: | 49.9908°N 15.3506°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1307 |
| Area Total Km2: | 17.83 |
| Elevation M: | 206 |
| Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 970 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal codes |
| Postal Code: | 284 01 |
Svatý Mikuláš is a municipality and village in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. It is known for the Kačina Castle.
The villages of Lišice, Sulovice and Svatá Kateřina are administrative parts of Svatý Mikuláš. Lišice and Sulovice form an exclave of the municipal territory.
The name means "Saint Nicholas".
Svatý Mikuláš is located about 6km (04miles) northeast of Kutná Hora and 30km (20miles) west of Pardubice. It lies in the Central Elbe Table. The Elbe River briefly flows through the northern part of the municipal territory.
The first written mention of Svatý Mikuláš is from 1307.[2]
The I/2 road (the section from Kutná Hora to Pardubice) passes through the municipality.
Svatý Mikuláš is known for the Kačina Castle, protected as a national cultural monument. It is considered the most important Czech building in the Empire style. It was built in 1802–1823 and consists of three parts, the main building and two wings. Today it is used by National Museum of Agriculture, which opened here the Czech Countryside Museum. In the left wing is a never-finished castle chapel and a castle theatre completed in the middle of the 19th century. In the right wing is the Chotek Library with more than 40,000 volumes of educational and beautiful literature from the 16th–19th centuries.[3] [4]
The Church of Saint Nicholas probably dates from the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. It is a Gothic church with neo-Gothic modifications from 1872.[5]