Welcome to the English homepage

of Spolecnost Rozmberk o.p.s. (The Rozmberk Society)
a Czech non-profit for heritage preservation and regional development

For over two decades, the Society has helped communities and people in our very rural region in South Bohemia.

  

Above: preserving local traditions and traditional crafts
below: making a playground for the village youths and a new WWI monument

  

 

Museum - Information Centers

Beside project activities, the Society also operates two visitor-education centers. The Peasant and Emigration Museum in an abandoned 99-year-old school building in the protected village of Kojakovice, explaining 19th century emigration to the USA and also WW I as seen from a local perspectiove. Our second center is the historic Novohradska Smithy in the over 300 year old now restored blackmisth workshop in Nove Hrady. The Smithy is operated in cooperation with blacksmith Daniel Cerny, and apprentice blacksmiths give demonstrations here during the summer season.

  

 

 

Please visit our donation pages and help us continue with our projects and our community work.

 

Switch to our visitor sites

Kojakovice Peasant and Emigration Museum

WWI, the Forgotten Front

Novovhradska Blacksmith Workshop

Ecomuseum Ruze

 

 

 

 

 

Ukraine

During the First World War, tens of thousands of refugees fled from Galicia to the Czech lands. Many passed through or found temporary shelter in rural communities, including villages in South Bohemia.

In 2017-2019, the Rozmberk Society participated in the EU Interreg Danube project NETWORLD, which focused on First World War heritage, education, remembrance, and cross-border historical links. As part of this work, we helped present the stories of soldiers, prisoners of war, refugees, and civilians affected by the war in Central and Eastern Europe, including areas that are now part of Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine has given this history renewed urgency. It reminds us that the experience of displacement, destroyed homes, and separated families is not only a matter of the past.

The Rozmberk Society stands in solidarity with Ukraine and with all those affected by the war.

 

 

 

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