Holešovice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Hlavní město Praha | ||
| Municipality : | Praha | ||
| Administrative district : | Prague 7 , Prague 1 | ||
| Area : | 469 ha | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 6 ' N , 14 ° 26' E | ||
| Residents : | 35,111 (October 16, 2006) | ||
| License plate : | A. | ||
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Holešovice , until 1960 Holešovice-Bubny (German Holleschowitz-Buben ) is a district of the Czech capital Prague . Most of the district belongs to the 7th district , a smaller part belongs to the 1st district.
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Holešovice is located three kilometers northeast of the city center on the left side of the Vltava in the large bend of the Prague river across from Karlín , Libeň and Troja . It has an inland port on the Vltava and the Praha-Holešovice railway station is a long-distance train station . There are also stops Praha-Holešovice zastávka on the Esko connection from Masaryk station to Kralupy nad Vltavou and Praha-Bubny on the Esko connection from Masaryk train station to Kladno . The Výstaviště Praha exhibition center is located in Holešovice. Line C of the Prague Metro crosses the district, as do various tram and bus routes.
history
The first written mention of the village took place in 1228 in connection with the Vladiken Bohumil of Holešovice. Holešovice remained a rural settlement until the 19th century, the center of which was on the site of today's train station.
After the abolition of patrimonial Holešovice formed a political municipality together with Bubny. Since the 1870s, the village developed into a Prague industrial suburb. In 1884, the Holešovice-Bubny community was incorporated into Prague and formed the Prague 7th district until 1960. Since 1961, Holešovice has belonged to the 7th and 1st districts.
Sports
Before the First World War there was a local football club called "Union Holeschowitz". On May 25, 1913, he won a competition at the German Ball Game Club Sturm Prague 5: 4. This match unintentionally went down in the history of Austria-Hungary because the prevented DBC defender Wagner brought the DBC chairman and local reporter Egon Erwin Kisch on the trail of the espionage case Alfred Redl .
Attractions
The most famous church is the St. Antonius Church on Strossmayerplatz . The Vltava Bridge, named after the first Czechoslovakian President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , was built between 1925 and 1928 according to a design by the architect Pavel Janák and the civil engineer František Mencl.
literature
- Egon Erwin Kisch: The case of the Chief of Staff Redl . In: Ders .: Prague Bitaval . German Edition, Weimar 1986.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saved from demolition: the Vltava bridge in Libeň. (2016) at www.radio.cz , accessed on July 30, 2019