Hořice v Podkrkonoší
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Jičín | ||||
| Area : | 2146 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 22 ' N , 15 ° 38' E | ||||
| Height: | 311 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 8,621 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 508 01 | ||||
| License plate : | H | ||||
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| Street: | Jičín - Hradec Králové | ||||
| Railway connection: | Hradec Králové – Ostroměř | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 7th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Ivan Doležal (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | nám. Jiřího z Poděbrad 342 508 19 Hořice v Podkrkonoší |
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| Municipality number: | 572926 | ||||
| Website : | www.horice.org | ||||
Hořice (also Hořice v Podkrkonoší ; German Horschitz ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 23 kilometers northwest of the city center of Hradec Králové on the Bystřice and belongs to the Okres Jičín .
geography
Hořice is located at the southern foot of the Horschitzer sandstone ridge on the right-hand side above the Bystřice valley. The European route 442 runs through the city , which leads from Jičín to Hradec Králové .
Neighboring towns are Lukavec u Hořic , Dachovy and Červená Třemešná in the north, Doubrava, Březovice and Svatogothardská Lhota in the east, Chvalina in the south, Dobrá Voda u Hořic in the south-west, Malé Bílsko and Velké Bílsko in the west and Chlum in the north-west.
history
The place was first mentioned in writing in 1143 in the deed of foundation of the Strahov Monastery . In 1365 the place was raised to the market and since 1385 Hořice had a town seal. In 1423, during the Hussite Wars, the battle of Horschitz took place south of the city , in which the allied Orebites and Kalixtines defeated a Catholic army.
In the 15th century the Smiřický von Smiřice acquired the town, which gained importance until the Thirty Years War. For the year 1524, three Jews in Horschitz are recorded in the Bohemian court leaning table. When the Smiřický von Smiřice were confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain , Albrecht von Waldstein took them over. Confiscated again after his death, the rule was handed over to Jakob Strozzi in 1635 . After his son Peter died in 1664 without any descendants, his widow donated the income from the estate to war invalids. With a foundation she also laid the foundation for the construction of the Invalidenhaus in Carolinenthal, which began in 1731, and later another in Horschitz. In 1846 a fire destroyed large parts of the city.
After the replacement of patrimonial Horschitz became an independent town in 1850 and the seat of a district administration and a district court. In 1884 the sculpture school was founded. In 1925 an outdoor swimming pool was opened. In 1960 the Okres Hořice was dissolved and the city was incorporated into the Okres Jičín. The economic focus is on the textile industry and mechanical engineering. The sandstone crusher, which helped the city to gain national fame, is no longer operated in the city today. Since 1961 the motorcycle race "300 zatáček" has been held in the town and its surroundings, which has had an international character since 1968 and has been called "300 zatáček - Gustav Havel" since then.
Attractions
- Baroque Church of the Birth of Mary, built 1741–1748 according to plans by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
- Marian column on the market, created in 1824 by Josef Richter
- Hořice Castle, built in 1749 instead of a fortress; it has served the forest administration since 1954
- Baroque church of St. Gothard on the Gothard hill; the chapel, built in the 12th century by the Strahov Monastery, was given its present form in the 18th century
- New cemetery on Gothard Hill with an important portal (B. Moravec and A. Cechner, 1892–1905)
- Stone sculptures on Gothard, created at sculpture symposia since 1966
- Hussite tomb, south of the city
- Jewish Cemetery
- Former synagogue , built in 1763, today the Hussite Church used
- Masaryk Tower, built in 1926, north of the city, with the group of figures “Legie za hranicemi” ( Foreign Legion ) Project: František Blažek, Execution: Jindřich Malina; sculptural design: Jan Vávra, Karel Lenhart, Otakara Španiela, Emanuel Malý
Market with Marian column
Masaryk Tower on the slope north of the city
Portal of the New Cemetery
Modern stone sculptures on the Gotthard hill
Local division
The town of Hořice consists of the districts Březovice ( Bschesowitz ), Doubrava ( Doubrawa ), Hořice ( Horschitz ), Chlum, Chvalina ( Chwalina ), Libonice ( Libonitz ), Svatogothardská Lhota ( Lhota St. Gotthard ).
Specialties
The "Hořické trubičky" ( Horschitzer tubes ) are a biscuit specialty that is exclusively produced in the city. After the objection period expired, the Hořické trubičky have been the seventh Czech product with a protected designation of origin since 2007 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Josef Ladislav Jandera (1776–1857), Premonstratensian, professor of mathematics
- Herman S. Doctor (1820-1897), Jewish textile entrepreneur
- Gustav von Mauthner (1848–1902), Jewish banker
- Fritz Mauthner (1849–1923), Jewish writer and philosopher
- Jan Levit (1884–1944), surgeon of Jewish descent, professor of military surgery in Prague, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Gustav Schorsch (1918–1945), actor
literature
- Rudolf M. Wlaschek: On the history of the Jews in Northeast Bohemia with special consideration of the southern Giant Mountains foreland . Marburg / Lahn 1987, ISBN 3879692017
