Chotěboř

Chotěboř
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Kraj Vysočina
District :	Havlíčkův Brod
Area :	5405 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 43 ' N , 15 ° 40' E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '15 " N , 15 ° 40' 13" E
Height:	515 m nm
Residents :	9,250 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	583 01
structure
Status:	city
Districts:	9
administration
Mayor :	Tomáš Škaryd (as of 2006)
Address:	Trčků z Lípy 69 ; 583 01 Chotěboř
Municipality number:	568759
Website :	www.chotebor.cz

Chotěboř (German Chotieborsch , older also Potiworz ) is a town with 9739 inhabitants (January 1, 2005) in the Czech Republic . It is located 14 km northeast of Havlíčkův Brod and belongs to the Okres Havlíčkův Brod .

history

The first documentary mention comes from the year 1265. There is a report of a place where silver is mined. The town belonged to Smil von Lichtenburg . To King City Chotěboř in 1278 was raised to royal town in 1331 by John of Luxembourg . Under Charles IV the city got a city wall.

During the Hussite Wars , the Taborite priest Petr Hromádka z Jistebnice conquered the region in 1421 and was then appointed city governor. When the soldiers of the royalists besieged the city, the Hussites surrendered . Three hundred of them were burned in public. The captain Petr Hromádka was executed in Chrudim . The Hussites took revenge by burning down the Benedictine monastery in Vilémov .

In 1499 the Trčka family took over from Lípa . Since they were on the side of the rebels during the Bohemian uprising , their possessions were confiscated by Emperor Ferdinand II (HRR) after the Battle of White Mountain . Other owners included the Riesenberg , the Kinský and, from 1836 until the confiscation in 1948, the Dobrženský von Dobrženitz . Count Wilhelm Leopold Kinský had the castle and chapel built in the early Baroque style in Chotěboř in 1701–1702. The Dobrženský counts got the castle and agricultural property back through a restitution process in 1992. Today the Chotěboř City Museum is located in the castle.

Attractions

Chotěboř Castle

Chotěboř Castle
Church of St. Jacob

Districts

Chotěboř includes the villages of Bílek ( Bilek ), Dobkov ( Dobkau ), Klouzovy ( Klausau ), Marieves ( Mariendorf ), Nemojov ( Nemojow ), Počátky ( Potschatek ), Příjemky, Rankov ( Swift ), Střížov ( Strieschow ) and Svinn ).