Karolín (Volárna)
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Kolín | ||||
| Municipality : | Volárna | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 5 ' N , 15 ° 14' E | ||||
| Height: | 193 m nm | ||||
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| Postal code : | 280 02 | ||||
| License plate : | S. | ||||
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| Street: | Velký Osek - Volárna | ||||
Karolín (German Karolinenhof ) is a single layer of the municipality of Volárna in the Czech Republic. It is located eight kilometers north of the city center of Kolín and belongs to the Okres Kolín .
geography
Karolín is located in the Středolabské tabule (table land on the middle Elbe ). The Bačovka brook flows to the north and west of the village. In the east rises the Vrch ( Friedrichsberg , 221 m nm). The TPCA site extends to the south and the Bačovský les forest to the west.
Neighboring towns are Kanin , Opolánky and Opolany in the north, Sány and Hájky in the Northeast, Volárna the east, Eleonorov , Býchory and Písečný Mlyn in the southeast, Ovčáry , Františkov and Sendražice in the south, Hradišťko I and Veltruby in the southwest, Bačov and Velký Osek in the West and Libice nad Cidlinou in the north-west.
history
The Grange Karolinenhof was after 1862 by the new owner of the manorial Kolin, Franz Horsky , on the pond site of the drained in the 18th century rybník Bačovský created. Horsky had the boggy ground drained and the Bačovka regulated. He named the farm, which was conceived as an agricultural model estate, to his partner and later wife Karoline Hartmann von Hartenthal. In the years 1870–1871, Horsky had a four-kilometer-long siding for goods traffic to the Karolinenhof from the new Velký Osek station of the kk priv. Austrian Northwest Railway . At the same time as the Vienna World Exhibition , Horsky presented the successes of his work in the Kolín rule in his own agricultural exhibition at the Karolinenhof. On June 21, 1873, Crown Prince Rudolf visited the exhibition and traveled with a special train from Vienna . The siding to the Karolinenhof was only used by a steam locomotive, otherwise the wagons were moved with animal power.
According to the last will of the founder, Karoline Horsky von Horskysfeld handed the farm over to her widowed son-in-law Hans von Berlepsch in 1877 , who leased it to Josef Čapek. In 1891 von Berlepsch sold the Karolinenhof to the landowner of Podiebrad Philipp Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst . After the establishment of Czechoslovakia , the Podiebrad landed property was divided up in the course of the land reform and the remainder passed to Josef Hyross the Elder in 1922 J. sold. He had large parts of the grounds belonging to the Karolinenhof parceled out and sold to 76 interested parties from Volárna and Jestřabí Lhota . The siding to the Velký Osek station was closed in 1925. The Karolinenhof itself was sold to Karel Plavec in 1927, who managed the remaining fields and forests to the maximum possible yield without doing anything to maintain the farm. In 1929 Plavec sold the run-down property to the nouveau riche Gustav Zich, who was, however, a weaver and had no agricultural knowledge. After bankruptcy proceedings had been opened on the indebted farm, Zich hanged himself in 1931. In 1934, the Brno coffee importer Theodor Balač acquired the estate for his children Bohdan and Anna from the foreclosure auction. Balač had the farm repaired and the neglected economy rebuilt. With the construction of the connecting curve from Kanín, the route of the former siding to the Karolinenhof was interrupted and partially destroyed.
After the February coup, the Balač family was expropriated on March 13, 1948 and the Karolín farm became a state property. In 1952 the farm was affiliated to the JZD Volárna, which was incorporated into the JZD "Nástup" Jestřabí Lhota in 1963 and in 1973 into the JZD "Rudý prapor" Ovčáry . After the Velvet Revolution, the JZD was dissolved in 1991. After the restitution, the run down farm was used as a police riding area for some time. Most of the buildings were later demolished due to the continuing decline. What was left was the torso of the Horsky official house, on the gable of which a coat of arms from Philipp Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst was still attached until 2011. In 2017, the last parts of the farm were also demolished, and an organic farm is to be built in its place.