Městská knihovna Chlumec nad Cidlinou

Pleasant and humid environment. Pohoda.

The library is open for a couple of months, it is modern with a large selection of books of all kinds. For a small fee you will receive the card and if you forget to return the loan in time, it will notify you by yourself.

The quiet and peaceful town at the confluence of the river Cidlina with Bystřice lies at an average altitude of 206 m with numerous ponds, deciduous and coniferous forests and is lined with numerous gardens, so it is sometimes poetically called the City in the Gardens. The name of the town is derived from the hill Chlum, on which it was founded. The predecessor of the town was a settlement with a Romanesque church and a small fortified settlement on top of a hill, which had a guard function on the strategic road from Prague to Hradec Králové, but whose remains were destroyed during the construction of the chateau. The first written mention comes from Kosma's chronicle in 1110. but more specific information about Chlumec is first mentioned in documents dating back to 1235, when it is owned by Zdeslav of Chlumec of the Divišovce family, later Šternberk. Quiet and picturesque town at the confluence of the river Cidlina and Bystřice lies at an average altitude of 206 meters, surrounded with numerous ponds, deciduous and coniferous forests and is also lined with numerous gardens, so it is sometimes poetically called the "City in the gardens ". The name of the city is derived from the Chlum hill on which it was founded. The forerunner of the town was a settlement with a Romanesque church and a small hillfort, which had a guard function on a strategic route from Prague to Hradec Králové, but whose remains were destroyed during the construction of the castle. The first written mention comes from the Kosmas Chronicle of 1110. However, for the first time, more specific information about Chlumec was mentioned in the year 1235, when it was owned by Zdeslav of Chlumec from the Divišovci family, later Šternberks.