Slabce

Slabce is a market town in Rakovník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The villages of Kostelík, Malé Slabce, Modřejovice, Nová Ves, Rousínov, Skupá and Svinařov are administrative parts of Slabce.

Etymology
The name is derived from the old Czech word slabec (i.e. 'weakling'), meaning "the village of weaklings".

Geography
Slabce is located about 5 km south of Rakovník and 43 km west of Prague. It lies in the Plasy Uplands. The highest point is the hill Hůrka at 492 m above sea level. The Berounka River flows along the southern municipal border. The almost entire municipal territory lies in the Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area.

History
The first written mention of Slabce is from 1352.

Transport
There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.

Sights
The main landmarks of Slabce are the church and the castle. The Church of Saint Nicholas was originally a Romanesque building, probably from the beginning of the 12h century. At the end of the 18th century, it was rebuilt in the Baroque style.

The Slabce Castle is a valuable complex of a Baroque manor house. It was founded at the beginning of the 18th century and gradually rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries. A part of the castle complex is a landscape park with an area of 13 ha.

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is located in Rousínov. It was built in the Gothic style in the 14th century. In the mid-18th century, it was rebuilt into its present form.

Notable people

 * Karel Burian (1870–1924), operatic tenor