Jankov
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Benešov | ||||
| Area : | 2980 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 39 ' N , 14 ° 44' E | ||||
| Height: | 510 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 917 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 257 02 - 257 54 | ||||
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| Street: | Votice - Louňovice pod Blaníkem | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 10 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Josef Kocourek (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Na náměstí 14 257 03 Jankov |
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| Municipality number: | 529842 | ||||
| Website : | www.obecjankov.cz | ||||
Jankov (German Jankau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 13 kilometers southwest of Vlašim and belongs to the Okres Benešov .
geography
Jankov is located at the foot of the Chrastišov in a landscape of ponds and hills of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands on the upper reaches of the Chotýšanka. To the west rises the 688 m high Džbány, after which the microregion Džbány got its name.
Neighboring places are Jankovská Lhota and Jitra in the north, Skrýšov in the north-east, Hrzín in the east, Habrovka and Ratměřice in the south-east, Nosákov, Královna and Vlčkovice in the south, Broumovice in the south-west, Otradovice in the west and Kaliště in the north-west.
history
Jankov was first mentioned in a document in 1352. There was a fortress in Jankov, and a parish church has also been documented since the 14th century. Until the beginning of the 15th century, the place was owned by the noble family of Vlašim. Around 1418 the Talmbergers acquired Jankov and expanded the place. In 1543 Jankov was called a patch.
On March 6, 1645, during the Thirty Years' War east of the place in the terrain between Jankov, Skrýšov, Ratměřice and Nosákov, the battle of Jankau between Swedish and imperial troops took place, in which the Swedes under Lennart Torstensson that of Melchior Graf von Hatzfeldt and Johann Graf defeated imperial rulers led by idols and then ravaged the country.
After his son Wilhelm Franz died in 1702 at the age of 25, Rudolf von Talmberg sold the Jankov estate with the market town of Jankov to Johann Anton Kořenský von Terešov. In the following years the fortress fell into disuse and Kořenský took his seat in Ratměřice Castle. In 1719, his four sons sold the combined estate Ratměřice-Jankov with the castles Jankov and Ratměřice to Jiří Vojický from Nová Ves. In 1785 the demolition of the old fortress began.
In 1869 the village of Jankov had 670 inhabitants, at that time a total of 2076 people lived in the area of today's municipality.
Jankov was named Village of the Year in Středočeský kraj in 2006.
Community structure
The municipality Jankov consists of the local Bedřichovice ( Friedrichsau ) Čečkov ( Tschetschkow ) Čestín ( sealed Estin ), Yankov ( Jankau () Jankovská Lhota b Lhota. Jankau ) Nosákov ( Nosakow ) Odlochovice ( Wodlochowitz ) Otradovice ( Otradowitz ) , Pičín ( Pitschin ) and Podolí ( Podol ).
Attractions
- Marketplace 80 m long and 45 m wide
- Parish church of John the Baptist, originally Romanesque building from the 13th century
- Monument on the place of the surrender of the imperial troops in the battle of Jankau , southeast of the village near Habrovka
- Chapel of St. Peter and Paul in Otradovice
Sons and daughters of the church
- Adolf Fuchs (1882 – after 1937), German opera singer (baritone)
- Egon Fuchs (1886–1958), German opera singer (bass) and professor at the Prague Conservatory
- Josef Šusta (1835–1914), fish farmer and Schwarzenberg fish master in Třeboň
- Mařenka Zieglerová (1881–1966), Czech actress and operetta singer
