Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída)
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Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída) is a 2.1 km cycling climb averaging 4.4% (+93 m), rising from 305 m to 398 m in Czechia.
Brno's rooftop climb: the 1970s arterial to the city's highest housing, with a continuous uphill cycle lane since 2024. The Czech road cup's 2013 season opener ran its finishing laps over it, on roads of the former Masaryk circuit.
2.1 km · +93 m · 4.4% avg · ~7.0% max · 305 → 398 m
Stats computed from OpenStreetMap and satellite elevation data — approximate.
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Gradient by colour: ● <3% ● 3–6% ● 6–9% ● 9%+
Where it bites
Steepest 500 m: 7.0% (km 0.5–0.9).
Road: paved throughout
| section | to | avg |
|---|---|---|
| 0–250 m | 314 m | 3.8% |
| 250–500 m | 327 m | 5.5% |
| 500–750 m | 343 m | 6.0% |
| 750–1000 m | 358 m | 7.9% |
| 1000–1250 m | 369 m | 3.6% |
| 1250–1500 m | 382 m | 5.2% |
| 1500–1750 m | 389 m | 3.4% |
| 1750–2000 m | 396 m | 2.4% |
What it’s like to ride
Libušina třída is the ride up to Brno's rooftop, the arterial pushed up Libušino údolí from 1970 to serve the Kohoutovice panel estate: above 400 m, the highest housing in the city, forest on every side, built continuously into no other district. From the Anthropos junction in Pisárky it climbs the valley for 2.1 km at 4.6%, the side valley of Šárka opening off it about halfway, trolleybus wires overhead the whole way. Since 2024 the road runs one motor lane in each direction with a continuous uphill cycle lane from Anthropos along Libušina třída as far as the Lidl on Žebětínská, so you climb in your own strip. The top is the estate's high street: Fajn Kavárna at number 19 pours MOTMOT specialty coffee, Bikelab Cykloservis is at 19a, and two Alberts on the same street cover bottles.
History
Libušina třída was built for the housing estate at its top. Kohoutovice was a village until 1970, when work on the estate began and a new road was cut rising through Libušino údolí to serve it, the first panel block going up on Vaňhalova in 1973 and the street taking its name, after Libuše of Czech founding myth, on 5 July 1974. The road has carried racing: at Brno-Velká Bíteš-Brno on 6 April 2013, the opening event of the Czech road cycling cup season, 140 riders from six countries rode two laps of a 10 km finishing circuit built from Libušina třída, Chironova, Pražská, Jihlavská, Stará dálnice and Žebětínská, roads of the former Masaryk street circuit, to a finish on Žebětínská in Kohoutovice. The mountain primes that day sat elsewhere on the course, at Antonína Procházky and Zbraslav.
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Common questions
- How long and steep is Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída)?
- Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída) is a 2.1 km cycling climb averaging 4.4% (+93 m), rising from 305 m to 398 m in Czechia.
- Where is Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída) steepest?
- The steepest 500 m averages 7.0%, between km 0.5 and km 0.9 of the climb.
- What is the road surface like on Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída)?
- Kohoutovice (Brno, Libušina třída) is paved throughout.