Hostouà  () is a town in Domaà ¾lice District in the Plzeà  Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants.
Hostouà  consists of 12 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
The name is derived from the personal name Hostoun, meaning "Hostoun's (court)".
Hostouà  is located about northwest of Domaà ¾lice and southwest of Plzeà Â. It lies in the PodÃÂeskoleská Hills. The highest point is the hill Sedlo at above sea level. The upper course of the Radbuza River flows through the town.
The first written mention of Hostouà  is from 1238, as a property of Gumpert of Hostouà Â. His descendants who ruled the area until the 15th century also possessed the Palatinate town of Schönsee.
During the Hussite Wars, Ctibor of Wolfstein, a supporter of Imperator Sigismund, ruled Hostouà Â. When the reign of the noble families of Wolfstein and Rabenstein came to an end, the Hostouà  estate was taken over by the Lords of Guttenstein. In 1587 the Emperor Rudolf II awarded Hostouà  the rank of a town and a coat of arms. Additionally in 1587 the town was granted a concession to hold two other fairs and a horse market in addition to the annual market.
At the end of the 16th century, the Czech population predominated, but ethnic Germans began to arrive. As a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain, the property of the Guttensteins was confiscated. The estate was sold to ZdenÃÂk of Mitrovice (1622), after a short period sold to the family of Czernin and in 1656 to the Counts of Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, who combined their estates of Horà ¡ovský Týn and Hostouà Â.
In 1914, an imperial military horse breeding operation of Galicia and Bukowina was transferred to Hostouà Â. During World War II, parts of the famous Lipizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna were located in Hostouà Â. In 1952, the stud farm was abolished.
From 1938 to 1945, Hostouà  was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland. In 1946, the Germans were the major ethnic group in Hostouà Â. After World War II, the German population was expelled and many buildings were demolished. Additionally, Hostouà  lost the rank of a town, which was restored in 2006.
Hostouà  is located on the railway line of local importance from Domaà ¾lice to BÃÂlá nad Radbuzou.
The main landmark of Hostouà  is the Church of Saint James the Great. It was first mentioned in written records in 1360. The church was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1731 and reconstructed after the great fire in 1877. It includes a copy of a wood carved Madonna, which was adored as the "Shrine of the Sorrowful Mother of God of Hostouà Â". The Baroque rectory next to the church dates from the 18th century.
The Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built in 1663 as a chapel for the cemetery by a donation from Susanna Kleinschmidt.
The Hostouà  Castle was originally a fortress, first mentioned in 1508. In the first half of the 17th century, it was already described as an aristocratic residence. The originally four-winged castle was reduced to today's two wings due to construction modifications. Insensitive building modifications in the 20th century erased the historical character. Since 2002, the castle has been used as a juvenile jail.
Hostouà  is twinned with: