Mnichovo Hradiště
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Mladá Boleslav | ||||
| Area : | 3331 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 32 ' N , 14 ° 58' E | ||||
| Height: | 240 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 8,729 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 294 11 - 295 01 | ||||
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| Railway connection: | Prague – Turnov | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 12 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Ondřej Lochman (as of 2014) | ||||
| Address: | Masarykovo náměstí 1 29521 Mnichovo Hradiště |
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| Municipality number: | 536326 | ||||
| Website : | www.mnhradiste.cz | ||||
Mnichovo Hradiště ( German Münchengrätz ) is a town with 8,500 inhabitants in Okres Mladá Boleslav , Czech Republic .
geography
The city is located 17 kilometers from the district town of Mladá Boleslav on the western edge of the nature reserve Český ráj ( Bohemian Paradise ). In the west the Jizera ( Iser ) flows past the place. Mnichovo Hradiště is connected to the R 10 expressway from Prague to Turnov .
history
The town emerged in the middle of the 13th century as an unpaved market town on the site of an older settlement. It belonged to the rule of the Cistercian -Ordenshauses monastery Hradiště in neighboring Klášter Hradiště nad Jizerou . It was first mentioned in 1279. The monastery was destroyed by the Orebites in the spring of 1420 and was never rebuilt. The possessions went to the Catholic nobleman Johann von Wartemberg . Around 1440, the Hussite leader Jan Čapek ze Sán came into the possession of the city and the surrounding goods with the income from localities. Mnichovo Hradiště was subsequently pledged several times. The Bohemian Chamber sold the manor in 1556 to the nobles Jiří von Labouň and Jindřich Žibřid. The descendants of Žibřid sold the town and rule in 1582 to Christoph Budovec z Budova, whose son Václav Budovec z Budova had a manor built in the village . He was executed as one of the leaders of the Estates uprising in Bohemia (1618) after the Battle of White Mountain on June 21, 1621 in the Old Town Square in Prague.
In 1623 the imperial general Albrecht von Waldstein (better known as Wallenstein ) acquired the property that had been confiscated by the Bohemian Chamber . He was incorporated into the Duchy of Friedland , which he had founded . In 1627 Wallenstein sold the Münchengrätzer estate to his nephew Maximilian von Waldstein , which is why after Wallenstein's murder in 1634 the town and rule of Mnichovo Hradiště together with the entire duchy were temporarily confiscated again, but remained in the possession of Count Waldstein until 1945. The castle was extensively rebuilt in the 17th century. Wallenstein itself was reburied in the local castle chapel in 1782.
In 1833 the Munich Grätz Conference took place , in which Prussia , Russia and Austria agreed on a common policy towards the Ottoman Empire . During the German War , the Battle of Münchengrätz took place on June 28, 1866 between the Austrian Corps Clam-Gallas and the Prussian 4th Corps of the First Army and the avant-garde of the Elbe Hussar Army , in which the Prussians and their allies were victorious.
Demographics
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1830 | 2883 | in 345 houses, including 15 Israelite families |
| 1857 | 3442 | on October 31st |
| 1900 | 3078 | Czech residents |
| year | 1970 | 1980 | 1991 | 2001 | 2003 |
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| Residents | 6 920 | 8 009 | 8 435 | 8 393 | 8 368 |
Attractions
- Mnichovo Hradiště castle in high baroque style with an attached Capuchin convent. The remains of the general and duke Albrecht von Wallenstein , which were transferred here after the dissolution of the Charterhouse Valdice, have been in the St. Anne's Chapel of the convent since 1782 . Wallenstein's tomb bears the inscription: "Quid lucidius sole? Et hic deficiet" ie: "What shines brighter than the sun? And it also goes under (or: gives way to darkness). "
- The Český ráj ( Bohemian Paradise ) protected landscape area . The Drábské světničky rock castle and the ruins of the Valečov rock castle are located near the town .
Districts
The city includes the 12 districts Mnichovo Hradiště, Veselá, Hněvousice, Hoškovice, Dneboh, Olšina, Lhotce, Dobrá Voda, Podolí, Hradec, Kruhy and Sychrov.
Personalities
- Franz von Koller (1767–1826), adjutant general to Field Marshal Schwarzenberg
- Emanuel Arnold (1800–1869), politician
- Leopold Kompert (1822–1886), writer
literature
- Mojmír Horyna, Luboš Lancinger, Vojtěch Láska: Mnichovo Hradiště. Castle - city - surroundings . Center for State Preservation of Monuments and Nature Conservation, Central Bohemia Region, 1984.
- Hans-Ulrich Engel: Castles and palaces in Bohemia . Frankfurt am Main 2nd edition 1978, ISBN 3-8035-8013-7 , p. 58f, illustration p. 183.
Partnerships
- Erzhausen , Hessen, Germany
- Figline e Incisa Valdarno , Italy
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 2: Bunzlauer Kreis , Prague 1834, pp. 201-204, item 1).
- ↑ Statistical overviews of the population and livestock in Austria . Vienna 1859, p. 40, right column .
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 14, Leipzig and Vienna 1908, pp. 251-252.
- ↑ Czech population statistics