Běchary
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Jičín | ||||
| Area : | 879 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 18 ′ N , 15 ° 18 ′ E | ||||
| Height: | 230 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 281 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 507 32 | ||||
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| Street: | Kopidlno - Chroustov | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 2 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jan Škoda (as of 2008) | ||||
| Address: | Běchary 5 507 32 Kopidlno |
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| Municipality number: | 572675 | ||||
| Website : | www.bechary.cz | ||||
Běchary (German Biechar ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 14 kilometers south of Jičín and belongs to the Okres Jičín .
geography
Běchary is located on the North Bohemian Table and the Stříble brook flows through it.
Neighboring towns are Vršce in the northeast, Slavhostice in the east, Židovice in the southeast, Běchárky in the south, Budčeves in the west and Cholenice in the northwest.
history
The first documentary mention of the village took place in a land register of the diocese of Prague created between 1283 and 1284 . The place name probably originated during the time of German colonization and is derived from Becher . In 1292 Wenceslas II granted the diocese the privilege of establishing a court in Běchary. In addition to the episcopal share, another part of the place belonged to the landed gentry. In 1322 a Sezema from Běchar is named as the owner of this part in connection with damage caused in Údrnice .
The first evidence of the church comes from 1312, when before Bishop John IV of Dražice a comparison was made between the Běchary pleban and the Zderaz monastery for the tithe of the monastic village of Chotěšice .
The episcopal property in Běchary came to secular lords during the Hussite Wars . In 1437 Wenceslaus von Mačovice received it from Emperor Sigismund as a pledge and connected it to Chotěšice. The following owners included the families of Běchary and Pařízek, and from 1500 the Halama of Běchary. In 1527 Wenzel Haugwitz von Biskupitz bought the Kopidlno estate, including Chotěšice and Běchary. His son Johann sold this property in 1559 and only held Běchary, which he ceded to Emperor Ferdinand I in 1564 . Then Běchary was joined to the Altenburg dominion . Balthasar Robenhaupt von Sucha (Robmhap ze Suché) sold Běchary in 1609 to the owner of Kopidlno, Ulrich Desiderius Proskowski von Proskau. During the Thirty Years War, large parts of the village fell into desolation.
After 1649 the parish in Běchary became extinct. The Church of St. Adalbert became a branch church of Kopidlno and from 1787 of Vršce . In 1835 the village had 572 inhabitants. Until the abolition of patrimonial in 1848, Běchary remained part of the Kopidlo domain. Velké Běchary formed with the district Malé Běchary from 1850 a municipality in the Jičín district. In 1880 the name of the municipality was changed to Běchary. At that time Běchary had 651 inhabitants, in Malé Běchary there were 70. The district Malé Běchary was named Běchárky in 1921 .
At Běchárky there are remains of the former narrow-gauge railway line from Kopidlno to Češov , which used to run through the village.
Community structure
The municipality of Běchary consists of the districts Běchary ( Biechar ) and Běchárky ( Klein Biechar ).
Attractions
- Church of St. Adalbert; the building, which has been documented since 1312, was given a baroque redesign after the fire of 1692 in 1708
- Statue of St. Wenceslas, made in 1883 by the sculptor Antonín Myslivec from Hořice
- Statue of St. Francis of Serafin, created in 1775
Sons and daughters of the church
- Václav Hořejšek (1839–1874), Czech composer
- Josef Chaloupský (1932–1991), Czech geologist