Jakob Krčín from Jelčany

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Jakob Krčín monument in Třeboň

Jakub Krčín (German: Jakob Krtschin Gelt Chan , also Jakub Krčín and Sedlčany , Czech: Krčín Jelčany a Sedlčan * 1535 in Jelčany ( Central Bohemia ); † 1604 in Sedlčany ) was a dike builders and business manager of the Bohemian lords from Rosenberg .

Life

Jakob Krčín came from an impoverished Vladiken family . After completing his studies at Charles University in Prague , he entered the service of Wilhelm Trčka von Lípa , on whose recommendation he later rose to become the administrator of the Borovany Monastery . From there it was taken over in 1561 by the last two Rosenbergs Wilhelm and Peter Wok . They first sent Jakob Krčín to Prague, where he was supposed to take part in a competition to build an aqueduct at Prague Castle . After he won the competition and built the aqueduct that is supposed to exist until today, he returned to Český Krumlov back.

As sub-captain and from 1569 as captain of the Krumlov rule, he made great contributions to its economic development. In 1564 he built a brewery yard in Plavnice and in 1568 the castle brewery and a mill in Schwarzbach . Under his direction numerous ponds and canals were built in the Wittingau basin and in other localities, among others

  • 1571–1573 he completed the canal system around Wittingau, succeeding the Rosenberg chief fish master Štěpánek Netolický, and laid there
  • the pond Svět, for which two suburbs had to be abandoned.
  • 1584–1590 he put on the Rosenberg pond and
  • 1585–1587 the Nová řeka Canal ;
  • the Krčín Canal in Netolice , named after him, was also built under his leadership.
Krčín's arithmetic penny from 1573 obverse
Krčín's computing penny from 1573 reverse

In 1569 Jakob Krčín received the former monastery yard Rohn ( Leptáč ) with two villages from Wilhelm von Rosenberg . Since these possessions were owned by the Goldenkron Monastery until the Hussite Wars and Krčín feared restitution , he had a large game reserve built there, to which 42 farms and the villages of Horní and Dolní Třebánky fell victim. In 1580 he exchanged this area with Wilhelm von Rosenberg, who built the Kratochvíle Castle on the former monastery courtyard and left the villages of Sedlčany and Křepenice to Jakob Krčín .

In Křepenice Jakob Krčín had the renaissance castle "Nový hrádek" built, where he spent the last years of his life. Since 1566 he was married to the widow Dorota Slepičkova thirty years his senior, through whom he got a house in Český Krumlov. After her death in 1587, he married Kateřina Zelendarová from Prošovice a year later, with whom he had six daughters. Kateřina was a daughter of Johann Zelendar von Prošovice, who was castle captain of Neuhaus under Adam II of Neuhaus.

A 200 kroner commemorative coin was minted in 2004 on the 400th anniversary of Jakob Krčín's death.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia: an alphabet. ordered directory. the all. bohem., mähr. and schles. Noble families of all degrees ... Geržabek, January 1, 1859, p. 82 ( google.at [accessed on March 29, 2017]).
  2. ↑ http://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/horni-jelcany
personal data
SURNAME Krčín from Jelčany, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krčín from Jelčany and Sedlčany, Jakob; Krčín, Jakub; Krčín z Jelčan a Sedlčan, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dike builder and economic administrator in the service of the Bohemian noble family von Rosenberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1535
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelčany
DATE OF DEATH 1604
Place of death Sedlčany