Nové Strašecí
Nové Strašecí | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
State : | Czech Republic | |||
Region : | Středočeský kraj | |||
District : | Rakovník | |||
Area : | 1331.9033 ha | |||
Geographic location : | 50 ° 9 ' N , 13 ° 54' E | |||
Height: | 470 m nm | |||
Residents : | 5,517 (Jan 1, 2019) | |||
Postal code : | 271 01 | |||
License plate : | S. | |||
traffic | ||||
Street: | Kladno - Řevničov | |||
Railway connection: | Prague – Chomutov | |||
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Status: | city | |||
Districts: | 2 | |||
administration | ||||
Mayor : | Karel Filip (as of 2013) | |||
Address: | Komenského náměstí 201 271 01 Nové Strašecí |
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Municipality number: | 542164 | |||
Website : | www.novestraseci.cz | |||
Location of Nové Strašecí in the Rakovník district | ||||
Nové Strašecí (German Neustraschitz , also Neu Straschitz ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 15 kilometers west of Kladno and belongs to the Okres Rakovník .
geography
Nové Strašecí is located in the southeast of the Džbán Mountains at the transition to the Pürglitzer Forest on the left side above the Klíčava valley . The Strašecký brook has its source in the town. In the northwest rise the Mackova hora (488 m) and the Žalý (506 m), west of the Louštín (537 m). In the north, the expressway R6 / E 48 coming from Prague ends at exit 32 and continues from there as state road I / 6 in the direction of Karlovy Vary . The railway line Praha – Chomutov runs south of the city ; the station is at the western end of the town.
Neighboring towns are Mšec in the north, Mšecké Žehrovice and Čelechovice in the northeast, Honice and Stochov in the east, Vašírov and Rynholec in the southwest, Pecínov in the south, Ruda in the southwest, U Nádraží in the west and Řevničov and Třtice in the northwest.
history
Archaeological finds in the urban area show a settlement in the Neolithic . The place was probably founded during the time of Johann von Luxemburg in the course of the colonization of the Pürglitzer Waldes with emphyteutic settlements. The first written mention of the settlement of Strašice , which belonged to the royal rule of Křivoklát , comes from the period between 1334 and 1343. In the 15th century, Strašice received some privileges and in 1480 it was referred to as a town. In 1503, Vladislav II granted Strašice city rights and a coat of arms. Around 1500 craftsmen and merchants in the city were given the right to settle freely. In 1553 the entire city was destroyed by a great fire.
The new town of Nové Strašecí was built on the site of the destroyed Strašice, the construction of which was probably completed at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1610 a city book was created. Because the citizenship had become evangelical, there was a dispute with the Prague archbishop. During the Thirty Years' War, the city with around 500 inhabitants was plundered several times and set on fire by Swedish troops in 1639. With the purchase of the Křivoklát Chamber of Commerce, the Counts of Waldstein and after them the Fürstenberg Princely House became the new landlords of the media city from 1685 . In 1811 and 1812, parts of the city were destroyed by two fires.
After the abolition of patrimonial Nové Strašecí / Neu Straschitz became the seat of a district court in 1848 and part of the political district of Slaný in 1850 . In the town, to which the district Pecínov Strašecký belonged, about 2200 people lived at that time. In 1871 the Buschtěhrad Railway opened the Prague-Chomutov line. In 1949 Nové Strašecí was elevated to a district town. At this time the Latvian mining began near Pecínov and the village consisting of Pecínov Strašecký and Pecínov Rynholecký was demolished. Only the settlement of Vobíralka ( Upper Petzinov ) remained. In 1960 the Okres Nové Strašecí was repealed and the city was assigned to the Okres Rakovník .
Community structure
The town of Nové Strašecí consists of the districts Pecínov ( Petzinow , also Petzinau ) and Nové Strašecí ( Neustraschitz ). Basic settlement units are Nové Strašecí, Nové Strašecí-u nádraží and Pecínov.
Town twinning
- Bolaños de Calatrava , Spain
- Sierning , Austria
- Tönning , Germany
- Welden , Germany
Attractions
- Church of the Birth of Our Lady, the originally Gothic building was rebuilt in 1553 and 1707. It was given its current appearance between 1837 and 1840.
- old town hall, after the city administration moved to the former state bank building, an art school is now housed
- Lookout tower on the Mackova hora
- Chapel of St. Trinity on the Mackova hora, built in the 18th century
- Chapel of St. Isidore, the building from 1711 was canceled in the course of the Josephine reforms and renewed in 1830
- city Museum
- Leopold Kochman's birthplace
- Former synagogue, the building from the 18th century with an adjacent Jewish school was rebuilt in the late classicist style in 1858. After the Jewish community had died out, the Czechoslovak Hussite Church bought the building in 1950, and since 1953 it has served as the Husův sbor Church
- Jewish cemetery , on the southern outskirts
- Marienkapelle on the dirt road to Stochov, built in 1856 by the Kurzveils at a spring
sons and daughters of the town
- Leopold Kochman (1847–1919), Czech poet
- Viktor Oliva (1861–1928), Czech painter and graphic artist
- Josef Neumann (1852–1915), Czech politician
- Zdeněk Kleindienst (1927–2012), Czech painter and graphic artist