Hřebčín Ostrov near Nové Město nad Cidlinou

This manor house was created on a peninsula wedged into the Velkochlumecký Pond only at the beginning of the 19th century (allegedly on the site of the defunct village of Praskoles, which was mentioned in the years 1397-1489), but according to archaeological findings, this location was already inhabited in the Neolithic. In 1832, it was built by Oktavián Kinský for the breeding of mares, and in the same year a studbook was started here. However, he was not the first of…