Staré Splavy

Staré Splavy (German: Thammühl am See) is a village and part of Doksy in the Česká Lípa District in the Liberec Region oid the Czech Republic.

At the beginning of the 20th century, many built their summer homes here, mostly in the style of Art Nouveau or functionalism (for example the Kohn brothers from Prague or Miloš Forman's parents).

[2] Because the post-war communist regime made the entire area one of the centres of socialist-style recreation in all of Czechoslovakia (especially in the 1970s and 1980s), sometimes it is today referred to as "Ibiza for the poor".

[3] There was relatively high density of Jewish families in the vicinity, who either are post-WWII natives here or moved here from Prague and other big cities since the 1990s.

[4] Among the notable people associated with the village is Franz Kafka, who has even dedicated one of his novels to the place, titled "The Synagogue of Thammühl".

Otto Kohn 's Villa, one of the typical examples of elite interwar architecture of the resort
View from the so-called "Small Beach" of Lake Mácha