Paceřice: Memorial lime trees

The Czech national tree is the linden. The sprawling trees protected the homes and yards of our ancestors from the summer heat, offered medicinal flowers, and bees made honey from their nectar and pollen. Lindens were planted on various important occasions, and a number of them have been preserved in Paceřice.

The two largest and oldest grow in the middle of the village square and are over 300 years old. These lindens are called Hujerovy, in honor of the famous native Prof. Jindřich Hujer. Also of interest are two others planted in honor of the founding of the republic in 1918, the linden of freedom in front of No. 2 and the linden of Švehlova at No. 101, which commemorates Antonín Švehla, a prominent politician of the First Republic. By the playground ("Ve Dráze") grow the Masaryk and Benešov lime trees.

Another remarkable group of over 220-year-old lime trees is located at this location near the statue of St. John of Nepomuk (the work of Jan Chládek Jr. from Turnov). The statue was erected here in memory of the tragic event in 1796, when local citizen Jan Radovský died under the wheels of his foreman's cart.

Within sight of them is an unmissable landscape dominant – the Rohanka lime tree alley planted after 1821 under Prince Karel Alain Rohan.