Pohořko: competition site visit

February 2025

The town of Přeštice announced an urban planning and architectural competition for the design of the revitalization of the area around the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and we are very happy that we were selected among the teams that will participate in this challenge.

A tour of the competition site took place at the end of February with the participation of the town administration, the church and other interested parties.

The subject of the competition is the revitalization of the so-called Pohořko. This is an area in the immediate vicinity of the largest Baroque church outside the capital. The area between the church and the cemetery, originally serving as a provost’s office and church and manorial farmyards, was architecturally and meaningfully degraded during the previous regime (known for its suppression of religion and disrespect for a number of sacred monuments) by the construction of administrative buildings of an agricultural cooperative, apartment block houses and garages.

The town of Přeštice has managed to purchase the area of ​​the agricultural cooperative, which creates an opportunity to correct this architectural “injustice” and give the area around the church the shine and dignity it deserves. The city, together with the church, wants to place synergistic amenities of a cultural and community nature here, in addition to appropriate public spaces. The plan can therefore be called a fundamental rehabilitation of the area.