Krakovany (Czech Republic)

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Krakovany
Krakovany coat of arms
Krakovany (Czech Republic) (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Středočeský kraj
District : Kolín
Area : 1054 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 4 '  N , 15 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '58 "  N , 15 ° 22' 8"  E
Height: 226  m nm
Residents : 845 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 281 27
License plate : S.
traffic
Street: Týnec nad Labem - Chlumec nad Cidlinou
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 2
administration
Mayor : Martina Kopencová (as of 2019)
Address: Krakovany 15
281 27 Krakovany
Municipality number: 533441
Website : www.obec-krakovany.cz
Evangelical house of prayer
school

Krakovany ( German  Krakowan ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north of Týnec nad Labem and belongs to the Okres Kolín .

geography

Krakovany is located on a hill between the Svárava and Předveský potok in the Středolabské tabule (table land on the middle Elbe ). Road II / 327 between Týnec nad Labem and Chlumec nad Cidlinou runs through the village . The Týnec substation is located south of the village.

Neighboring towns are Božec and Lipec in the north, Uhlířská Lhota and Hlavečník in the northeast, Chaloupky and Kladruby nad Labem in the east, Selmice , Labské Chrčice , Svárava and Kojice in the southeast, Bambousek, Pazderna, Týnec nad Labem and Lžovice in the south, Konelenárovice and Lžovice in the south South-west, Bělušice in the west and Chrást, Němčice and Ohaře in the north-west.

history

The first written mention of the village was in 1244 as the seat of Vladiken Honata von Krakovan. In 1325 Vesel von Krakovan sold the village and the Krakovany farm to the abbot Frederick of the Sedlec Cistercian monastery . During the Hussite Wars , the monastery was attacked and burned down in 1421 by the Hussites under Jan Žižka ; then various nobles seized the extensive property. In 1436, King Sigismund signed the Teinitz estate with the town of Tajnec and Krakovany and other villages to Vaněk von Miletínek, a brother of the moderate Hussite captain Diviš Bořek von Miletínek . Vaněk von Miletínek formed the Teinitz estate. The subsequent owner of the manor was Václav Hrůza from Chelčice. He was followed by Mikuláš von Mezilesice, who sold the rule to Wilhelm von Pernstein in 1510 . This united the rule Teinitz with his rule Pardubitz . In 1521 he bequeathed his Bohemian goods to his younger son Vojtěch , after his death in 1534 they passed to his brother Johann . In 1548 he left his son Jaroslav in high debt. On March 21, 1560 Jaroslav von Pernstein sold the entire rule of Pardubitz to King Ferdinand I. His successor Maximilian II transferred the administration of the royal lords to the court chamber .

In the Pardubice land register from 1588, seven fish ponds and tanks are listed near Krakovany. Fish farming was extinct in the 17th and 18th centuries. According to the Josephine tolerance patent of 1781, a Helvetian parish was formed in Krakovany in 1784 and a wooden tolerance prayer house was built the following year . In 1790 a wooden schoolhouse was built for a one-class village school. In 1803 a new stone prayer house was built.

In 1835, the in consisted Chrudim District village located Krakowan of 58 houses in which 445 people, including 29 Protestant families lived. There was a Swiss prayer house with a pastor's house, a branch school and a forester's house in the village. The Catholic parish was Elbe-Teinitz . The inhabitants lived from agriculture, mainly chicories were grown. Until the middle of the 19th century Krakowan remained subordinate to the kk camera rule Pardubitz.

After the abolition of patrimonial Krakovany formed from 1849 a municipality in the judicial district of Chlumetz . From 1868 the municipality belonged to the Neubydžow district . In 1869 Krakovany had 659 inhabitants and consisted of 96 houses. At the end of the 19th century a brick factory was built. The pond cascade at Předveský potok was drained at this time. In 1900 there were 741 people living in Krakovany, in 1910 there were 796. In 1902 a peasant cooperative for the processing and sale of agricultural products was founded, which started a drawing drying plant; the first chairman was the landowner Emanuel Kokeš from Svárava. In 1930 Krakovany had 868 inhabitants.

During the Second World War, part of the village was occupied by the Wehrmacht. A military practice shooting range was built in the former brickworks, next to the village the construction of the first-order Koralle radar station began under the command of the major of the Trabert flight reporting department ; the establishment of a field airfield was also planned. The radar station comprised six radar devices - a Wassermann M III / IV , a hunting lodge , three Freya and a Würzburg giant as well as short and medium wave transmitting and receiving stations with several 30 m high transmission masts. Until May 8, 1945, 300 soldiers were stationed in the Koralle facility.

Since 1960 the community has belonged to Okres Kolín . In 1961 Božec was incorporated. The community has had a coat of arms and a banner since 1998. In the 2001 census there were 769 people living in the 290 houses of the community; the district Krakovany consisted of 247 houses and had 665 inhabitants.

Community structure

The municipality Krakovany consists of the districts Božec ( Boschetz ) and Krakovany ( Krakowan ), which also form cadastral districts.

Community partnerships

Attractions

  • Evangelical tolerance prayer house, built in 1803
  • Evangelical rectory, built in 1833
  • Evangelical cemetery
  • Former synagogue
  • Memorial to the fallen of the First World War
  • Landmark
  • Remnants of the Koralle radar station

literature

Web links

Commons : Krakovany  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/533441/Krakovany
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Calve, Prague 1837, p. 62.
  4. ^ History of the Koralle radar station
  5. ↑ https://www.obec-krakovany.cz/historie/obecni-symboly
  6. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/533441/Obec-Krakovany
  7. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/533441/Obec-Krakovany