Bolevec, Zavadilka and Košutka

The dynamic development that Pilsen experienced from the last third of the 19th century, mainly thanks to the success of local industrial enterprises, was also reflected in the expansion of suburban municipalities. Bolevec, north of Pilsen, was one of them. Industrial operations in its vicinity – sandstone quarries and brickworks in Košutka, the Prior brewery or test firing range, and later the ammunition factory of the Škoda Works in Orlík – played an important role in the development of the originally agricultural village. The rapid population growth in the area led, for example, to the establishment of its own cemetery in 1903 or to the construction of a generous new building of the Masaryk School at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. However, the focal points of new housing development arose not only at the heart of the village, but also along the borders of its territory in Košutka and Zavadilka, approximately halfway to the residential area of Lochotín.

These two localities, together with Bolevec, form the spatial centre of the trail. The urban structure of these three areas was severely affected by the construction of several North Suburb residential estates in the 1970s and 1980s, which brought about a number of demolitions. Thus, the trail, whose route between Zavadilka and Košutka passes through the Lochotín housing estate, makes more visible the shrouded layer of architecture and building culture that was pushed back and partially overwritten by newer construction. The trail includes the memorial chapel commemorating the victims of the ammunition explosion in Orlík in 1917, the Masaryk School, the Bolevec Sokol Hall and selected residential buildings.