In Budějovice
U Zelené ratolesti — where the horse railway met Lanna
On foot 50 min · By car 10 min
The coaching inn from 1821 still stands, with a guesthouse and restaurant you can visit. The courtyard with the historic coach house matters most: these spaces were for horses, wagons and goods, not guests. In 1838 Vojtěch Lanna had a horse-railway siding brought here.
The inn stands on Husova Street and was built by Lanna's father Tadeáš. The son had the horse-drawn railway track brought here so that freight could be transferred straight onto boats or carters' wagons; on one yard the railway, wagons and the river thus met. Over two hundred years a flax mill, a theatre, a bus terminus and a scales workshop then took turns here. Nothing of the tracks is visible today.
Practical details
- On foot 50 min · By car 10 min
On site
- The building stands and works — guesthouse and food. You can come in.
- Look at the courtyard and historic coach house. These spaces were not for guests but for horses, wagons and goods.
- Try pacing where the siding might have run — from Česká ulice towards the river.