Borovany

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Borovany
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Borovany (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Jihočeský kraj
District : České Budějovice
Area : 4233 ha
Geographic location : 48 ° 54 '  N , 14 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '55 "  N , 14 ° 38' 32"  E
Height: 522  m nm
Residents : 4,173 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 373 12
License plate : C.
traffic
Street: Trhové Sviny - Třeboň
Railway connection: České Budějovice – Gmünd Lower Austria
structure
Status: city
Districts: 7th
administration
Mayor : Petr Jenkner (as of 2018)
Address: Žižkovo náměstí 107
373 12 Borovany
Municipality number: 544281
Website : www.borovany-cb.cz
Location of Borovany in the České Budějovice district
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Borovany (German Forbes ) is a town in the Okres České Budějovice in the Czech Republic .

geography

The South Bohemian city is located on the right bank of the Stropnice .

Community structure

The town of Borovany consists of the districts Borovany ( Forbes ), Dvorec ( Wurzen ), Hluboká u Borovan ( Hluboka ), Radostice ( Radostitz ), Trocnov ( Zalluschi ), Třebeč ( Triebsch ) and Vrcov ( Wirzau ), which also form cadastral districts. The settlements Chrastí and Cikánov also belong to Borovany . Basic settlement units are Borovany, Chrastí, Dvorec, Hluboká u Borovan, Radostice, Trocnov, Třebeč and Vrcov.

Neighboring communities

Strážkovice Ledenice Mladošovice
Ostrolovský Újezd Neighboring communities Jílovice u Trhových Svinů
Trhové Sviny Olešnice u Českých Budějovic Petříkov

history

Borovany was first mentioned in a document in 1186 in a border definition between the area of ​​the manorial estate and the Zwettl monastery . Since 1291 the place belonged to Wok von Borovan from the Witigonischen family branch of the Lords von Landstein . In 1327 Wilhelm von Landstein became the owner, whose son Vítek / Veit sold the estate in 1359 to the brothers Peter, Jost, Ulrich and Johann von Rosenberg . The Rosenbergs united Forbes with their possessions in Gratzen . After Forbes had been in the changing hands of various noble families since the end of the 14th century , the Budweiser patrician Peter von der Linden (Peter von Linda, Petr z Lindy, † 1471/72) , who came from Linz , bought the rule. After the death of his only son, von der Linden founded the Augustinian monastery in 1455 and built the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. The late Gothic building was completed in 1466.

The monastery was under the patronage of the Rosenbergs. 1564 raised Wilhelm von Rosenberg , the monastery due to the mismanagement of the provost Matěj Kozka of Rynárec and the monastic ownership took over the Rosenbergs. Around 1578 Forbes was elevated to a market town . After Peter Wok von Rosenberg's death in 1611, the Schwanberg family became new owners. After the defeat in the Battle of White Mountain , their goods were confiscated and fell to Ferdinand II , who renovated the Augustinian monastery in 1630.

In 1729 the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary received the baroque tower and in 1746 a frescoed chapel was added to the north side of the church. The Augustinians built the three-winged prelature house between 1760 and 1770. In the course of the Josefin reforms, the monastery was closed in 1785 and its property fell to the religious fund. In 1789, Prince Johann von Schwarzenberg acquired the estate in exchange for his rule Vlčice and had the monastery buildings converted into a castle.

After the abolition of patrimonial Forbes became an independent municipality in the judicial district of Schweinitz or in the later district of Budweis in 1850 . In 1869, with the construction of the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahn, the area received a railway connection. To the north of Forbes, work began on mining the kieselguhr deposit near Rosenstein, to which a works railway was laid.

In 1973 Borovany was promoted to town.

Attractions

  • Castle (former Augustinian monastery) in the center of the city
  • Exhibition "From Forbes by train there and back" (on the history of the KFJB) in front of the monastery
  • Town hall, baroque building from the middle of the 17th century
  • Granite pillory from 1656 in the city park
  • Statue of St. John of Nepomuk from 1730 in the city park
  • Žižka monument from 1893 in the city park
  • Stone bridge, late 16th century, over the Stropnice river

  • lock

  • town hall

Exhibition: Z Borovan vlakem tam a zpátky
  • Attractions in Vrcov
  • Dvorec Zoo

Žižkahof near Trocnov

In the birthplace of Jan Žižka , south of the village of Trocnov, where the Žižka von Trocnov family's homesteads used to be, there is an educational trail that explains the remains of buildings found during the excavations in 1908. On the site of the birthplace of Jan Žižka , a small exhibition about the Hussite movement and a monumental monument to the military leader erected by Josef Malejovský between 1958 and 1960 was created.

sons and daughters of the town

  • Jan Žižka (around 1360–1424), Hussite leader, born on the Žižka farm
  • Theodor Wagner (1818-1892), Bohemian historian and archivist
  • Václav Havelka (* 1885), Czech-American opera singer
  • Stanislava Kautmanová (1902–1982), Czech writer for young people

Web links

Commons : Borovany  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/544281/Borovany
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 0.8 MiB)
  3. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/544281/Obec-Borovany
  4. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/544281/Obec-Borovany
  5. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/zsj-obec/544281/Obec-Borovany
  6. ^ Herbert Pexa: Peter von der Linden. From Linz citizen to ennobled landowner in Bohemia a. Founder of the Forbes Monastery (Borovany). In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1979. Linz 1980, pp. 21–58, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  7. ↑ silniční most id. č. 157 - 014 ÚSKP 22828 / 3-5877 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).