Benátky nad Jizerou
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Mladá Boleslav | ||||
| Area : | 3295 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 17 ' N , 14 ° 49' E | ||||
| Height: | 225 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 7,418 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 293 01 - 294 71 | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 5 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jaroslav Král (as of 2006) | ||||
| Address: | Zámek 49 29471 Benátky nad Jizerou I |
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| Municipality number: | 535451 | ||||
| Website : | www.benatky.cz | ||||
Benátky nad Jizerou (German: Benatek ) is a town in the Okres Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic . It is located on the Iser (Jizera) and has 7,042 inhabitants (2006).
history
The place was mentioned for the first time in 1052 by the naming of the suburb Obodři. In 1264 the Dražice Castle was built north of the town . In 1346 Jan von Dražice was given the right to found the town. In 1349 the monastery with the church “Birth of the Virgin Mary” was built. The Burgraves of Dohna settled here in the 1520s. They built a new castle on the site of the castle destroyed by the Hussites .
In 1599, Emperor Rudolf II bought the entire estate. He offered the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to set up an observatory here so as not to be disturbed by the hustle and bustle of the Prague court. Brahe stayed in Benátky from August 1599 to June 1600. Among other researches, he determined the location of the city at 14 ° 51 '30' 'east longitude and 50 ° 18' 30 '' north latitude.
In 1647 Johann von Werth received the property, who further expanded the castle. After his death in 1652 a dispute broke out over the inheritance, which was settled after three years: The rule of Benatek fell proportionally to Werth's young widow Susanna Maria von Kuefstein (1630 / 33–1697), whose son Franz Ferdinand von Werth, who was presumably from an extramarital relationship (1652–1671), her second son, Franz Maximilian Hartmann von Klarstein and Lambertine Irmgardis Freifrau Raitz von Frentz von und zu Schlenderhan, Countess of Cologne, the daughter of Johann von Werth's first marriage. Susanna Maria, now married to Kaspar Johann von Cabbegg zu Saareck for the third time, went into debt for the repurchase of the other parts of the rule and lived in considerable poverty. Susanna Maria later brought her part of the rule into her fourth marriage with Ernst Gottfried Schütz von Leipoldsheim on Zittolieb . In 1694 he was able to gain the last stake in third-party ownership. He was followed by his son Ernst Jaroslaw, with whose death the Schütz von Leipoldsheim family died out.
At the end of the 18th century, the property came into the hands of Prague Archbishop Anton Peter Count Przichowsky von Przichowitz , who had the interior of the palace decorated in the rococo style. In the middle of the first half of the 19th century Leopold Felix Graf Thun-Hohenstein acquired the Benátky rule. Between 1844 and 1847 the young composer Bedřich Smetana worked in Benátky as a music teacher for the Thun and Hohenstein family . The last Count Kinsky sold the castle to the city in 1920. After 1944, Neu Benatek / Nové Benátky and Alt Benatek / Staré Benátky were united and the districts Obodř / Obodersch, Kbel and Dražice / Draschitz were incorporated.
City structure
The town of Benátky nad Jizerou consists of the districts Benátky nad Jizerou I, Benátky nad Jizerou II, Benátky nad Jizerou III, Dražice ( Draschitz ) and Kbel.
Partner communities
- Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) (Germany)
- Reinsdorf (Germany)
- Modra (Slovakia)
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Franz Benda (1709–1786), violinist, conductor and composer
- Georg Anton Benda (1722–1795), composer and conductor
- Joseph Benda (1724–1804), court musician and conductor
- Johann Georg Benda (1713–1752), violinist
- Anna Franziska Benda (1728–1781), married Hattasch , singer
- Zdeněk Kalista (1900–1982), historian, poet, literary critic, editor and translator
- František Šťastný (1927–2000), motorcycle racer
Lived and worked in the place
- Jan Augusta (1500–1572), Bishop of the Brethren Unity, was administrator of the college
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer
- Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), astronomer
- Johann von Werth (1591–1652), equestrian general in the Thirty Years' War
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)