| Staré Splavy | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Liberec |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Česká Lípa |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Doksy |
| Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
| Coordinates: | 50.5894°N 14.6322°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1553 |
| Area Total Km2: | 9.96 |
| Elevation M: | 270 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 591 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 471 63 |
Staré Splavy (de|Thammühl am See) is a village and part of Doksy in the Česká Lípa District in the Liberec Region oid the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It is a recreation centre and a former spa resort, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Mácha. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was one of the famous holiday destinations in the whole of Austria-Hungary.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was one of the most famous holiday destinations in the whole of Austria-Hungary. Even during the First Czechoslovak Republic, Staré Splavy was a popular recreational place, especially for well-off Jewish clientele from Prague, Liberec and even places as distant as Berlin or Vienna. 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).
The place was then often dubbed "The Bohemian Lido".[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".[2]