Jan Nepomuk Nádherný

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Jan Nepomuk Nádherný , also Johann Nepomuk Nádherný , from 1838 Edler Nádherný (born March 10, 1772 in Borutín , † March 7, 1860 in Prague ) was a Bohemian entrepreneur and landowner. He was the founder of the Nádherný family of Borutín .

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The son of the miller Bartholomäus Nádherný and his wife Anna Černochová initially worked as a smelter at the Johanka-Heřmaň ironworks near Kamenice nad Lipou . In 1795 he married Antonia John from Brüx . In 1799 he bought the rule of Kamenice from Baron Ubelli von Siegburg for 360,000 guilders. In the same year Nádherný also acquired civil rights in Prague and founded a hardware store there. He then expanded the Johanka-Heřmaň smelter into an ironworks with blast furnaces, forges and hammers. Furthermore, Nádherný leased the ironworks in Žďár nad Sázavou and in 1805 the run-down iron hammer near Závišín . Nádherný invested his profits from the iron and steel industry in buying goods and thus became one of the largest landowners in Bohemia. In 1805 Nádherný sold the Kamenice manor for 713,000 guilders and instead acquired the Chotoviny estate . Between 1806 and 1830 he invested a total of 1,233,749 guilders in the purchase of goods. In 1829 he acquired the Jistebnice estate with the Mezdříčí and Svatkovice estates from Prince Lobkowicz . He sold the latter property in 1830 to Franz Joseph von Bretfeld-Chlumczansky . Later he bought the Adršpach estate and the Přehořov , Brandlín and Jeníčkova Lhota estates and, in 1843, Veselíčko and Svatkovice from the Bretfeld-Chlumczansky heirs .

Nádherný had his estates managed according to modern economic methods and the infrastructure in the villages expanded. He financed the construction of schools and road construction. He had registers kept of the fields, ponds, forests, gardens, animal husbandry, brewery and distillery, in which the expenditure was compared with the income. He cleared the Branitz side of the English Park below the pond in Veselíčko and laid out a fruit and vegetable garden there. He also had the trees in the Schlossallee replaced by fruit trees. The Zběssicky hunting lodge was converted into a granary .

After the Napoleonic Wars, he supported the war orphans and invalids. During the cholera epidemic, Nádherný set up a health fund for free medical treatment for his subjects. He also supported the charitable institutions in Prague and the Prague National Museum .

After the death of his first wife, Nádherný married Katharina Handwerk in 1834. On August 15, 1838, he was raised to the nobility by King Ferdinand V and was given a coat of arms on November 30, 1838.

His only son and universal heir Ludvík Karel and daughters Anna and Theresia come from his first marriage; the second marriage was childless. He found his final resting place in 1860 next to his wife Antonia (1774-1816) in the family crypt of the Nádherný of Borutín in Chotoviny.

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SURNAME Nádherný, Jan Nepomuk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nádherný, Johann Nepomuk Edler von; Nádherný, Jan Nepomuk (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian nobleman, entrepreneur and large landowner
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Borutín
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1860
Place of death Prague