Čáslav
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Kutná Hora | ||||
| Area : | 2648 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 55 ' N , 15 ° 24' E | ||||
| Height: | 231 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 10,326 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 286 01 | ||||
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| Railway connection: |
Čáslav – Třemošnice Čáslav – Močovice Znojmo – Kolín |
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 5 | ||||
| administration | |||||
| Mayor : | Jaromír Strnad (as of 2017) | ||||
| Address: | Žižkovo nám. 1 286 01 Čáslav |
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| Municipality number: | 534005 | ||||
| Website : | www.meucaslav.cz | ||||
Čáslav (German Tschaslau , Czaslau or Caßlau ) is a town in the Okres Kutná Hora in the Central Bohemia region ( Středočeský kraj ) in the Czech Republic .
history
The city became a royal city around 1260 and was a Hussite headquarters in the 15th century . Here in 1421 the ruling King Sigismund was deposed as the Bohemian king in the Peter and Paul Church and declared an undesirable person. According to tradition, Jan Žižka is said to have found his final resting place in the same church in 1424 . Part of a skull attributed to him is on display in the town hall.
In Čáslav during the recatholicization in Bohemia, among others, Matthäus Ulicky worked as a deacon, who was later executed as a Protestant martyr. On May 17, 1742, the Battle of Chotusitz between Prussia and Austria took place in the First Silesian War near Tschaslau .
From 1850 the city was the seat of a district court ( judicial district Časlau ).
Attractions
- City fortifications
- synagogue
- Peter and Paul Church
- Elisabeth Church
- town hall
- Dusík Theater
- Filipov Castle
military
Locally which operates Air Force of the Czech Army the military airfield Čáslav .
Town twinning
- Opfikon , Switzerland
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- František Josef Dusík (also Franz Benedikt Dussek or Francesco Cormundi ) (1755 - after 1816), composer
- Jan Ladislav Dusík (1760–1812), composer
- Wenzel Alois Vetter Count von Lilienberg (1770–1840), Feldzeugmeister
- Philipp Maximilian Opiz (1787-1858), botanist
- Karl Kořínek (1858–1908), union leader in Austria-Hungary
- Josef Svoboda (1920–2002), set designer
- Miloš Forman (1932–2018), director, actor and screenwriter
- Aleš Veselý (1935–2015), painter and sculptor
- Jan Vlasák (* 1943), actor
- Karel Jarolím (* 1956), soccer player and coach
- Milan Cabrnoch (* 1962), politician
- Ludmila Formanová (* 1974), track and field athlete
- David Jarolím (* 1979), football player
- Lukáš Radil (* 1990), ice hockey player
In the place worked and lived
Jan Karafiát (1846–1929), Czech pastor of the Bohemian Evangelical Brother Church and writer, was administrator at the Evangelical Seminary from 1872 to 1873
