Klecany
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Praha-východ | ||||
| Area : | 1016 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 11 ′ N , 14 ° 25 ′ E | ||||
| Height: | 265 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 3,589 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 250 67 | ||||
| License plate : | S. | ||||
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| Street: | Zdiby - Řež | ||||
| Next international airport : | Prague airport | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 4th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Ivo Kurhajec (as of 2008) | ||||
| Address: | Do Klecánek 52 250 67 Klecany |
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| Municipality number: | 538311 | ||||
| Website : | www.klecany.cz | ||||
Klecany (German Groß Kletzan ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located ten kilometers north of the city center of Prague and belongs to the Okres Praha-východ .
geography
Klecany is located on the right side above the Vltava valley on the Bohemian table . To the northwest lies the Dolní Povltaví Nature Park, to the west the Husinec quarries and the Pravý Hradec castle. To the north is the former military airfield, east of the city near Zdibsko is the D 8 / E 55 motorway with exit 1 "Zdiby". A car ferry runs across the Vltava between Klecánky and Roztoky. In the south lies the wooded valley of the Přemyšlenský potok.
Neighboring towns are Drasty, Hoštice and Klíčany in the north, Baštěk, Bašť and Sedlec in the northeast, Zdibsko and Bořanovice in the east, Zdiby in the southeast, Veltěž, Přemyšlení and Klecánky in the south, Roztoky in the southwest, Husinec in the west and Větrušice in the northwest.
Legends
According to a legend, Přemysl the Ploughman , who allegedly founded the village of Přemyšlení in 726, founded a church here in 777 and had a castle built there, which he gave to his faithful servant. Because it was lame, the place was called Klecany . According to Václav Hájek z Libočan , the lame Lapák, son of Bazák and nephew of Krok , is said to have settled at the fertile place with plenty of water around 719 .
history
From archaeological finds, a settlement can be proven since the Bronze Age . In the first half of the 10th century there was a Slavic castle and burial place here. This was identified in 2005 as the legendary Pravý Hradec Castle, which, along with Levý Hradec and the Prague Castle, is one of the oldest seats of the Premyslid princes .
The village was first mentioned in writing in 1316. The existence of a fortress has been documented since 1380. In 1507 Klecany was raised to a minority by Vladislav II at the instigation of the owner, Zikmund Hromada von Boršice . Under the Lobkowicz princes , the festival was converted into a castle at the beginning of the 17th century. Klecany lost its privileges during the Thirty Years War. Anna Lobkowicz brought the property into the Fürstenberg dynasty when she married in 1628 . This was followed by the Counts of Trauttmansdorf. From 1691 Václav Vojtěch von Sternberg was the master of Klecany. In 1727 the Counts of Gallas acquired the rule, which from 1757 passed to the Clam-Gallas line . In 1754 and 1757 Maria Theresa stayed twice at Klecany Castle. In 1803 the Counts Clam-Gallas sold the Jan Vilém Woborzil castle, who had already leased the rule of Mühlhausen from the Count Lobkowicz . In 1847 the sugar manufacturer Anton Balle acquired the castle.
After the abolition of patrimonial Klecany formed a community in the district and judicial district Karolinenthal from 1850 . In 1894 the Benies family became the owners of the castle. A military airfield was built north of the castle in the 1920s. From 1928 the municipality belonged to the Praha-venkov district. After the German occupation, Mathilde, divorced Benies, sold Groß Kletzan Castle to the Hitler Youth .
During the Second World War, the airfield was used by the Luftwaffe. It was during this time that he gained importance. In March 1945 there was an aerial battle in the airspace north of Klecany in connection with the American air raids on the Brabag plant in Schwarzheide . After the end of the war, an internment camp for Germans was set up near Klecany in 1945; 44 people died in the camp, including the director Svatopluk Innemann and the legal historian Otto Peterka . The dead were buried next to the cemetery. The castle initially served as a training center for the Czechoslovak Youth Association. From 1946 the community came to Okres Praha-sever and since 1961 it belongs to Okres Praha-východ. In the 1950s, the military airfield was closed. The army continued to use the site and also acquired the castle. In 1990 the military area was given up and the municipality of Klecany bought the run-down castle, which it sold to the engineer Toupalík from Brno in 1992 . This let the building deteriorate further. In 2003, the German entrepreneur and Czech boxing promoter Jens Beckhäuser bought the castle ruins and renovated the building.
In 1994 Klecany was promoted to city. In 2000, during excavations southwest of Klecany, an important Slavic burial site was found. After further discoveries, the archaeologist Naďa Profantová identified the place above the Vltava valley with the Pravý Hradec fortress, the exact location of which had previously been assumed near Klecany, but could not be determined.
In 2007, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge ( Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) recovered from the mass grave of the internment camp the bones of 41 deceased from the Klecany camp, which could no longer be identified individually, and buried them in the new German war cemetery in Cheb in 2008 .
City structure
The town of Klecany consists of the districts Drasty ( Drast ), Klecánky ( Klein Kletzan ), Klecany ( Groß Kletzan ) and Zdibsko ( Sperling ).
Attractions
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Church of the Assumption
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Bust of Václav Beneš Třebízský
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- Klecany Castle, which was rebuilt from the medieval fortress in 1607, was owned by aristocratic families until the 19th century and then by industrialists. During the Second World War the Hitler Youth received the castle, after the war it was used by the Czechoslovak Army. The community sold the castle after the army withdrew. The castle has been the seat of entrepreneur and boxing promoter Jens Beckhäuser since 2003.
- the desert Slavic fortification of Pravý Hradec
- Church of the Assumption, built in the 14th century
- Statue of St. Wenceslas, 17th century
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, from the 18th century
- Dolní Povltaví Nature Park
Personalities
- Václav Beneš Třebízský , worked as a chaplain in Klecany from 1876
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ↑ Prague film pioneer rests on German war cemetery in Eger / Cheb / Svatopluk Innemann was reburied in Eger in 2008 / The legal historian Otto Peterka is also among the dead in Eger , VDK press release from August 16, 2010