Hrádek u Nechanic

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Hrádek
Coat of arms of Hrádek
Hrádek u Nechanic (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Královéhradecký kraj
District : Hradec Králové
Area : 276 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 13 '  N , 15 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '14 "  N , 15 ° 41' 12"  E
Height: 275  m nm
Residents : 186 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 503 15
License plate : H
traffic
Street: Nechanice - Radíkovice
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : František Sadil (as of 2008)
Address: Hrádek u Nechanic 42
503 15 Nechanice
Municipality number: 570052
Website : www.hradek-u-nechanic.cz

Hrádek (German Bürgles ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located four kilometers southeast of Nechanice and belongs to the Okres Hradec Králové .

geography

Hrádek is located on the right side of the Radostovský potok, a left tributary of the Bystřice on the East Bohemian Table. Jehlický vrch (302 m) rises to the northeast.

Neighboring towns are Lubno and Jehlice in the north, Nový Přím in the northeast, Stěžírky in the east, Těchlovice and Radíkovice in the southeast, Libčany and Želí in the south, Radostov and Boharyně in the southwest, Kunčice in the west and Stýskal and Nechanice in the northwest.

history

The first written mention of the village took place in 1377. In Hrádek there was a small fortress that served as a knight's seat since the 8th or 9th century. It can be traced back to 1528. The wooden parish church of St. George was consecrated in 1384. During the Thirty Years' War the church was destroyed and rebuilt in 1694. In the middle of the 19th century Franz de Paula Ernst Graf Harrach had a romantic castle built in the English style in the forest north of the village.

View of the village

After the abolition of patrimonial Hrádek formed from 1850 a municipality in the Hradec Králové district . In 1945, the Beneš Decree No. 12 expropriated Count Harrach and nationalized the castle. 1949 Hrádek was assigned to the Okres Hradec Králové-okolí. The castle has been open to the public since 1953. Since 1961 the municipality belongs to Okres Hradec Králové. In 1991 a 9-hole golf course was built in the castle park .

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Hrádek.

Attractions

St. George Church
  • Hrádek u Nechanic Castle , also known as the “Bohemian Hluboká ” castle, was built between 1839 and 1857 for Franz de Paula Ernst Count Harrach. The Viennese architect Karl Fischer used the plans of the builder Edward Buckton Lamb for an unrealized conversion of the English mansion Crewe Hall in Cheshire from the middle of the 17th century as a template . The castle is located in the Lubno cadastre and partly on the Nechanitzer corridor. In 2001 the castle got its original color back with the harrach red towers.
  • Church of St. Georg, the church was built in 1694 instead of a wooden church consecrated in 1384, which was destroyed during the Thirty Years War.
  • chapel

Web links

Commons : Hrádek (Hradec Králové District)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)