Parkhotel Terezín

+420 222 539 539
Mon - Fri: 8am – 8pm Sat - Sun: 9am – 4pm

Máchova 163, Terezín 41155

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Description
Parkhotel Terezín is located in Terezín in the attractive tourist destination of Středohoří a Máchův kraj. The hotel is currently offering 24 rooms with 60 beds for booking. Single, double and multiple-bedded rooms are available. Visitors can be catered for in a restaurant located within the hotel. Your pet can be accommodated in the hotel for an extra charge. Wireless internet connection is available within the hotel free of charge. Guarded parking is available to all guests free of charge.
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Parkhotel Terezín Rooms

24 rooms are available at the Parkhotel Terezín with a total capacity of 60 beds. Select from 14 double rooms, 1 single room and 9 multiple bedded rooms. You can connect to the internet using the hotel's free WiFi network available in all the rooms for free. Smoking is not allowed anywhere in the hotel. The hotel is not suitable for persons with limited or impaired mobility. The hotel can provide you with a children's bed for free.

Parkhotel Terezín Gastronomy

Breakfasts are not offered at the hotel. Guests are welcome to visit the hotel's restaurant. Guests can use a kitchenette for preparing their own meals.

Parkhotel Terezín Reception

11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.


Check-in: from 15:00

Check-out: to 12:00

Cards accepted at this property

  • Visa
  • Maestro
  • EuroCard/MasterCard
  • American Express
  • Diners Club
  • JCB

Parkhotel Terezín Accessibility

The unguarded parking at the hotel is available to guests for free. You can catch a bus from the bus stop a mere 200 m away from the hotel. You can catch a train from the railway station a mere 3,1 km away from the hotel. Guests can use the hotel's transport service to get to the Parkhotel Terezín.

Parkhotel Terezín Entertainment and leisure

There is a golf course within 500 m from the hotel. In the hotel's surroundings there are several cycling tracks. Guests can store their bikes in the hotel's storage room. Guests interested in hiking will surely appreciate a great number of trails in the surrounding area. Children's playground is located within 600 m from the accommodation facility.

Parkhotel Terezín Neighbourhood

Early history

In the late 18th century the Habsburg Monarchy erected the fortress, as well as a large walled town directly across the Ohře River, near its confluence with the Labe River, and named it after Empress Maria Theresa.


Construction started in 1780 and lasted ten years. The total area of the fortress was 3.89 km². The fortification was designed in the tradition of Sébastian le Prestre de Vauban. In peacetime it held 5,655 soldiers, and in wartime around 11,000 soldiers could be placed here, and neighbouring areas could be inundated. Fortress Josefov in eastern Bohemia was built at the same time and had a similar purpose.


The fortress was never under direct siege. During the Austro-Prussian War, on 28 July 1866, part of the garrison attacked and destroyed an important railway bridge near Neratovice (rail line Turnov - Kralupy nad Vltavou) that was shortly before repaired by the Prussians. This attack occurred two days after Austria and Prussia had agreed to make peace, but the Terezin garrison was ignorant of the news.


During the second half of the 19th century, the fortress was also used as a prison.


During World War I, the fortress was used as a political prison camp. Many thousand supporters of Russia (Russophiles from Galicia and Bukovina) were placed by Austro-Hungarian authorities in the fortress. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, starting the war, died there of tuberculosis in 1918.


Terezín during World War II
Theresienstadt concentration camp

During WWII, the Gestapo used Terezín, better known by the German name Theresienstadt, as a ghetto, concentrating Jews from Czechoslovakia, as well as many from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Denmark. More than 150,000 Jews were sent there, and although it was not an extermination camp about 33,000 died in the ghetto itself,mostly because of the appalling conditions arising out of extreme population density. About 88,000 inhabitants were deported to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. At the end of the war there were 17,247 survivors. Theresienstadt was the home of Hana Brady and her brother George Brady from 1942-1944.


The Small Fortress in Terezin was also used as a punishment prison for Allied POWs who persisted in escape attempts. POWs from Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain were imprisoned Keeping POWs from signatory countries in such camp conditions was against the Geneva Convention. Terezin was the punishment prison for Walter Wise (Australia), Charles Croall (NZ), Roy Lomas (NZ), Ray Reid (NZ), Gerry Mills (NZ), Sid Davison (NZ), Tom McLeod (NZ), Alf Booker (NZ), Jock Bone (UK), Herb Cullen (Australia), Tama Tamaki (NZ), Wal Riley (Australia), Tom Mottram (NZ), Jim Ilott and Alexander McClelland (Australia). All survived but suffered chronic physical and mental health problems for most of their lives.


For many years the Australian and New Zealand governments denied that any of their servicemen had been sent to Terezin, but after several years of campaigns the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke established a committee of investigation in 1987 which eventually ordered $10,000 compensation payments to the surviving veterans. Australian journalist Paul Rea produced the 1985 film Where Death Wears a Smile which made sensational allegations about the supposed murder of dozens of Allied prisoners at Terezin. These claims have been refuted by one of the veterans, Alexander McClelland, in his book The Answer - Justice.


Part of the fortification (Small Fortress) served as the largest Gestapo prison in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, separated from the ghetto. Around 90,000 people went through it, and 2,600 of those died there.


It was liberated on 9 May 1945 by the Soviet Army.


Terezín after World War II

After the German surrender the small fortress was used as an internment camp for ethnic Germans. The first prisoners arrived on the May 10, 1944. On February 29, 1945 the last German prisoners were released and the camp was officially closed. Among the interned Germans were former Nazis like Heinrich Jöckel, the former commander of Terezín and other SS members. A great group of internees was arrested simply because of their German nationality, among them young boys or elderly people.


In the first phase of the camp lasting until July 1945 mortality was high due to diseases, malnutrition and incidents of simple outright murder. Commander of the camp in that period was Stanislav Franc. He was guided by a spirit of revenge and tolerated whimsical mistreatment of the prisoners by the guards.


In July 1945 the camp shifted under the control of the Czech ministry for domestic affairs. The new commander appointed was Otakar Kálal. From on the inmates were gradually transferred to Germany and Terezín was increasingly used as a hub for the forced migration of Germans from the Czech lands into Germany proper.


Terezín today

After the war, Theresienstadt was resurrected as Terezín, dropping the German "stadt" from its name but still retaining a military garrison. The army left the city in 1996, which had a negative effect on the local economy. Terezín is still trying to decouple from its military past and become a modern, vibrant town. In 2002, the fortress, which was in a deteriorated condition, was listed in the 2002 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. The organization called for a comprehensive conservation plan, while providing funding from emergency repairs from American Express. In 2002 the city was also struck by floods during which the crematorium was damaged. A plan was eventually developed in cooperation with national authorities. According to the Fund, a long-term conservation plan was conceived, which includes further repairs, documentation, and archaeological research.

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