Location: Lobeč 34, 277 36 Lobeč · Central Bohemia
Category: industrial heritage site, steam engine
A rescued steam-powered brewery in the Kokořín region, first mentioned in writing on 7 April 1586 and rebuilt into an industrial plant in the 1890s. Since April 2026 a separate exhibition of steam technology has been open in the brewery courtyard, featuring a heritage-listed steam engine made by Bolzano, Tedesco & Co. in 1895; the engine was found in an abandoned mill in Mutějovice in the Rakovník area. The collection also includes a steam boiler from 1915 made by the Bohemian-Moravian Machine Works in Prague. A longer guided tour with the architect and the brewery owner leads through the Renaissance core, the old brewhouse, the brewmaster's office, an exhibition on the brewery's history and the cellars.
Why visit this place?
A separate steam-power exhibition displays a heritage-listed steam engine built by Bolzano, Tedesco & Co. in 1895; the audio-guided tour takes 30 minutes.
The brewery is first documented on 7 April 1586; JUDr. Rudolf Cicvárek had it converted to steam power and the first industrial batch was brewed here in February 1896.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 1,148 visitors on Google Maps.
Allow roughly an hour and a quarter; the programme is aimed at upper primary and secondary students.
There are 32 more tips within 25 km, enough to build a full-day trip.
The whole programme is indoors, so rain is not a problem.
Opening hours: Guided tours April–October: Sat 14:30, in July and August also Fri 14:30; no tours November–March. The steam technology exhibition with audio guide is accessible at any time during the opening hours of the brewery taproom; in December and January the taproom is closed too, so the exhibition is not accessible then. Outside the school holidays the taproom only opens from Friday — a school group visiting on a weekday must book a private time slot.
The brewery does not offer a dedicated programme for schools. School groups are best suited to Route 2 – the Steam Technology Exhibition with audio commentary (30 min., Czech/English/German), where visitors can see the working heritage-listed steam engine from 1895, a steam boiler from 1915 and a Škoda Plzeň electric motor from 1913. Groups of child visitors pay 100 Kč per person for the guided tour.
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