Častolovice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Rychnov nad Kněžnou | ||||
| Area : | 562 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 8 ' N , 16 ° 11' E | ||||
| Height: | 268 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 1,685 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 517 50 | ||||
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| Railway connection: | Chlumec nad Cidlinou – Międzylesie | ||||
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| Status: | stains | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Martina Bělková (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Masarykova 10 517 50 Častolovice |
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| Municipality number: | 576182 | ||||
| Website : | www.ou-castolovice.cz | ||||
Častolovice (German: Častolowitz ; also outdated: Tschastolowitz ) is a place in the district of Rychnov nad Kněžnou in the Královéhradecký kraj region in the Czech Republic .
geography
Častolovice is located southwest of Rychnov nad Kněžnou , about 30 kilometers east of Hradec Králové ( Königgrätz ) at the confluence of Kněžná , Štědrý potok , Bělá and Wild Eagle . The place extends both along the river and on the slopes of the low mountain range that separates the Elbe valley from the Orlicko landscape . On the southern outskirts of the city, the Alba Canal is derived from the Běláwehr .
history
The beginnings of the village probably go back to the 13th century, when the surrounding area of the Eagle Foothills was settled. It is believed that Častolowitz was founded by a Častolov from the Ronowitz family. The first mention of Častolowitz is documented for 1342, when it was in the possession of the district judge Puta d. Ä. von Častolowitz and King John of Luxembourg raised the village to a town.
After the death of Puta d. J. von Častolowitz 1434 inherited his widow Anna, née von Kolditz, his property. She sold her East Bohemian possessions in 1440 to her future husband Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg . He granted the mother of the late Puta von Častolowitz, Anna von Auschwitz , a lifelong use of Častolowitz. A few weeks after Hynek Kruschina's death in 1454, his son Wilhelm Kruschina sold Častolowitz and other East Bohemian estates to Georg von Podiebrad , from whom it was passed on to his son Heinrich the Elder. Ä. von Münsterberg , who presumably sold it to Wilhelm II von Pernstein around 1495 .
With the acquisition of the town in 1577 by the brothers Johann, Wilhelm and Georg von Oppersdorff , an economic boom began. Friedrich the Elder Ä. von Oppersdorff converted the former moated castle into a renaissance castle , which developed into a cultural center. From 1684 Častolowitz was owned by Count Thomas Czernin von Chudenitz , from whom it was acquired in 1694 by the Bohemian Count Adolf Wratislaw von Sternberg . Častolowitz was inherited by the Sternberg-Manderscheid family, who owned the estate until the end of patrimonial rule in 1848 and the castle with the associated possessions until it was expropriated in 1948.
In 1890 Častolowitz had 1240 inhabitants. Another economic boom followed with the railway connection in 1893. In 2006 the place was raised to Městys .
Attractions
- Častolovice Castle
- The church dedicated to St. Vitus ( Kostel sv. Víta ) was probably built in the 14th century. 1771–1775 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style at the instigation of Franz Philip von Sternberg according to plans by Franz Kermer .
- Mini zoo
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .
