Tatce

Tatce is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Etymology

In old Czech, the word 'tat' meant a thief and tatec was a diminutive of tat. So the name Tatce meant "the village of little thieves".

Tatce is located about northwest of Kolín and east of Prague. It lies in a flat agricultural landscape of the Central Elbe Table.

The first written mention of Tatce is from 1292.

Tatce is located on the railway line Prague–Kolín.

There are no protected cultural monuments in the municipality. A landmark is the Chapel of the Virgin Mary, which dates from 1843.