Kostelec nad Orlicí Residential Centre
Tř. Rudé armády 1000, 517 41 Kostelec nad Orlicí · Kostelec nad Orlicí, Hradec Králové Region
Open residential centre for asylum applicants in Kostelec nad Orlicí, in the Hradec Králové Region, run by the Czech Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ). E15 reported in 2016 that it had operated in the grounds of a former barracks since 2001. AIDA lists 277 places for 2025 and 38 people at the end of 2024.
Key facts
- Type
- Residential centre
- Operator
- Refugee Facilities Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (SUZ)
- Address
- Tř. Rudé armády 1000, 517 41 Kostelec nad Orlicí, Kostelec nad Orlicí, Hradec Králové Region
- Capacity
- 277 places (as at 2025)AIDA, Czech Republic, 2025 update (June 2026): table of capacity for 2025, with data from SUZ.
- People counted there
- 38 (as at 31 December 2024)AIDA, Czech Republic, 2025 update (June 2026): occupancy at the end of 2024. Figures for 2025 were not available when it was written, so this is not a current headcount.
- Status
- In use (status as at: 4 October 2026)Source: the SUZ page for this facility, accessed on the date shown.
- Opening
- In operation since 2001 in the grounds of a former barracks, according to E15 (7 January 2016).
- Position on the map
- Derived by us from the published address, not a point published by SUZ.
Background
SUZ's page describes an open regime. It adds that special attention is paid to vulnerable groups, which include single women with children, older people, people with physical, mental or social disabilities, and victims of physical or psychological violence. AIDA says the residential centres in Havířov and Kostelec nad Orlicí are in smaller towns with good accessibility to larger cities.
For comparison with the 2025 figures: E15 reported on 7 January 2016 that the centre had capacity for 275 people and housed 134 applicants, and eurozpravy.cz reported on 3 August 2015 a capacity of 275 and 163 people housed.
Reported incidents
Each entry is attributed to the outlet or body that reported it and states the stage that was reported. Nothing here is our own finding, and no one is named as a suspect.
3 August 2015 · Reported (police statement; an overall figure, no individual case)
eurozpravy.cz quoted Martin Červíček, director of the Hradec Králové regional police, as saying that problems linked to the centre included public drinking, disorder and property misdemeanours, and that asylum seekers had committed 10 criminal offences in the previous five years. He said this was nothing the police could not handle, and that police had not recorded a rise in crime. No individual case was described.
Sources
- SUZ: Kostelec nad Orlicí residential centre (official page, accessed 4 October 2026)
- AIDA, Czech Republic: 2025 update (June 2026)
- E15, 7 January 2016: report on the capacity and occupancy of the Kostelec nad Orlicí centre
- eurozpravy.cz, 3 August 2015: report on a police statement about the Kostelec nad Orlicí centre
official source
The Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ) runs the state asylum facilities and also detention. Capacity and occupancy come from the AIDA Czech Republic 2025 update (June 2026), which received them from SUZ: capacity is for 2025, and occupancy by centre is for the end of 2024 because figures for 2025 were not available. Each is dated on this page. Capacity is a number of places and not a headcount, and the occupancy figures are not current. Addresses are from SUZ's page for each facility, and positions are derived from those addresses. The cost published is for the whole agency, CZK 939.8m in 2025, detention and other services included, so no site shows a cost. Incidents come from news outlets, the police or official reports, each named and dated, with the stage that was reported. A facility that works like detention is labelled so.